The call from Lincoln High School’s principal’s office came unexpectedly, as they often do.Impressive.
Cedrick Argueta’s friends joked that he might be in trouble. Cedrick didn’t think so.
He was right.
It turned out that Cedrick, the son of a Salvadoran maintenance worker and a Filipina nurse, had scored perfectly on his Advanced Placement Calculus exam. Of the 302,531 students to take the notoriously mind-crushing test, he was one of only 12 to earn every single point.
“It’s crazy,” Cedrick said. “Twelve people in the whole world to do this and I was one of them? It’s amazing.”
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Son of maintenance worker gets perfect score on AP Calculus exam -- 1 of 12 in the world to do so
The L.A. Times reports: