Campus News Students Soaring in National Exams
demonstrated their outstanding academic excellence in this highly competitive program: Sarah Axmann, Laura Bass,
National Merit Scholarship Program
Courtney Brock, Antonia Buban, Madeline Burch, Karen Chen, Yu-Chen Chien, Anne Cromwell, Helen Eikenberg, Mallory French, Lara Gatehouse, Katelyn Hall, Katharine Halle, Caroline Hunt, Sarah Kee, Katherine Knight, Vivian Ludford, Meghan Moreland, Jessica Pei, Emily Satinsky, Andrea Shiakolas, Chelsea Snipes, Keely Timms, Casey Watters, Laura Weil and Katherine Wood.
Over 1.5 million students entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/ NMSQT®). Fifteen Hockaday students were among the approximately 16,000 semifinalists announced in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The Hockaday School has more National Merit Finalists than any other girls school in the nation. The 2011 Semifinalists include Sarah Alexander, Megan Ernst, Emily Frank, Neha Gagasani, Kristy Gudmundsson, Meredith Gunn, Katherine Hebeler, Margaret Hood, Trishla Jain, Allison Kirchhofer, Caitlyn Le, Blake Osborn, Samantha Pillsbury, Sarah Ridout and Victoria Tarpley.
We are pleased to announce that 26 students have been named Commended Students in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. These seniors have Kate Hoffman (Form II) and Anase Asom (Form II)
Senior Poised for National Achievement Scholarship
Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of more than 1,600 Black American high school seniors who have been designated Semifinalists in the 47th annual National Achievement Scholarship Program. Hockaday Form IV student Sarah Alexander was named a Semifinalist. She will continue in the competition for approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards, worth more than $2.5 million, to be offered next spring.
In addition, three of our seniors are named among 3,100 Outstanding Participants in the National Achievement® Scholarship Program. Alexandra Foote, Irene Opoku-Acheampong and Elizabeth Walker scored in the top three percent of more than 160,000 Black Americans who requested consideration in the 2011 National Achievement Program when they took the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. National Hispanic Recognition Program Recognizes Two Hockaday Seniors Congratulations to seniors Victoria Tarpley and Meredith Menache for being
honored by the 2010–2011 National Hispanic Recognition Program. The NHRP was initiated in 1983 to identify outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students.This year, the NHRP is recognizing nearly 5,000 students selected from a pool of over 200,000 students who took the 2009 PSAT/NMSQT®/PAA™ and identified themselves as Hispanic/Latino. Outstanding Performance on AP Exams
The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides willing and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. At Hockaday, 134 students earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams. Five students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average score of 4 or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and scores of four or higher on eight or more of these exams. These students are Alexandra Boehrer ’10, Katherine Boehrer ’10, Mariel Pettee ’10, Kathryn Squiers ’10 and Victoria Tarpley (Form IV).
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