The National Merit Scholarship Program has named 13 members of the Class of 2018 as Semifinalists and 34 as Commended students based on each student’s 2016 PSAT/NMSQTscores. About 1.6 million students entered this year’s National Merit Scholarship Program and the Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. Commended Students place among the top 50,000 of the 1.6 million students.
Congratulations to the following seniors named Semifinalists: Abdullah Akbar, Davis Bailey, Owen Berger, Daniel Byeon, Kevin Feng, Alan Jiang, Jack Parolisi, Toussaint Pegues, Ethan Pittson, Reece Rabin, Edward Ro, Niteesh Vemuri, and Harris Wilson.
Congratulations to the following seniors named Commended Students: Sunny Agrawal, Andre Arsenault, Kal Buscaino, Ben Clayman, Carson Crocker, Blake Dougherty, Mateo Diaz, Will Forbes, John Gunnin, Crawford Helbing, Calvin Hosler, Josh Hudecek, Ben Hurst, Andrew Li, Michael Liang, Eduardo Ludwig-Bernardo, Michael Mahowald, Gabe Martin, Garrett Mize, Austin Montgomery, Waseem Nabulsi, Omar Rana, Fausto Reyher, Jimmy Rodriguez, Cal Rothkrug, Cal Rushton, Sam Shane, Kannan Sharma, Mo Singhal, Andrew Smith, Sam Sussman, Allan Zhang, Kyle Zhang, and Jesse Zhong.