Ninth Grader qualifies for USA Junior Math Olympiad Congratulations to Victor Chu ’18 who qualified this spring for the USA Junior Math Olympiad. Chu followed a rigorous and impressive route just to qualify: first by finishing in the top 2.5 percent on the AMC 10 (a national contest with roughly 33,000 students participating), which then qualified him for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a three-hour test consisting of 15 questions. Chu correctly answered eight problems in this contest (the average was 5.29). As a result of his combined scores on these two national contests, Chu was one of 230 students in the United States to qualify for the USAJMO, a nine-hour contest consisting of six proof-based questions given over a two-day period.
Eight BB&N Students Excel as National Merit Scholars The National Merit Scholarships are awarded annually to students demonstrating significant academic promise. More than 1.4 million juniors took the 2013 PSAT, and of those, approximately 16,000 were named semifinalists. To compete for the National Merit Scholarships, semifinalists had to advance to a finalist round through an application process. This year, five students were finalists in the 2015 competition. These students were Van Chung ’15, Arron Juang ’15, Chris Kellogg-Peeler ’15, Will Levinson ’15, and Sophie Sadovnikoff ’15. One finalist earned a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he will be attending school in the fall. Congratulations to Edwin Gavis ’15. Lastly, two students won a National Merit Scholarship to be used at the college of their choice. These students were selected because they were deemed to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Congratulations to Tom Chu ’15 and Jeremy Lewin ’15.
Jeremy Lewin ’15 (left) and Tom Chu ’15 accept their National Merit Scholarships from Upper School Assistant Director Katrina Fuller.
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