This year we had a record number of 19 juniors qualify for next year's National Merit Program. We hope all of them make it to the finalist status, but just qualifying is a huge accomplishment. The National Merit Scholarship Program uses students' PSAT test scores as the qualifying test. From approximately 1.5 million program entrants, each of these students is among the 50,000 highest scoring participants who will be recognized in the fall.
From the 50,000 high scorers nationwide, about 16,000 will be named National Merit Program Semi-finalists next September, representing the top scores in each state, and approximately 34,000 will be commended for their performance. Semifinalist will be the only students in the running to compete for about 7,4000 National Merit Scholarships offered in the Spring of 2017.
So, as you can see, these students performance has been outstanding. These students are all dedicated to success, not afraid to work hard and they believe in putting forth 100% effort. But those attributes alone did not create these results, those characteristics were accompanied by lots of love, encouragement, and support (plus perhaps occasional nudging) from parents, family, and teachers. Congratulations to each of you! We are incredibly proud of you all!
This is their "silly" picture! :)
The students receiving recognition for qualifying for the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program are:
Florianne Binoya Yasmeen Manzur
David Bradley Nicholas Martinez
Angela Cao Marissa Maxim
Devin Deanda Matthew Pabst
Nicolas Escobar Nicholas Pechlaner
Sangavai Ganesh Senthil Kumar Arvind Raghavan
Erica Guthan Rachel Schroeder
Thomas Hoang Carter Sugden
Sunitha Konatham Harrison Winslow
Justin Liu
