Two high school students not only conquered calculus, they pulled off an achievement that can stump college professors. Of the 302,532 students around the world who took the Advanced Placement ...

For decades, high school students hoping to attend the most selective colleges in the country have received the same recommendation: Take the most rigorous courses possible. And over that time, ...

Walker Kroubalkian said he didn’t pay much mind to an advance placement test he’d taken five months ago. The University High School student took the AP calculus exam in May. He’d hoped for a 5, which ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the percent of students Truman Bennet falls in. He is among 0.006% of students to achieve a perfect score on the exam this year ...

REVERE — In high school, Robert Stoica stayed after class for calculus help. Now a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Stoica, 18, said classmates turn to ...