NATIONAL MERIT® RECOGNITION

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships Approximately 1 5 million high school students, primarily juniors, enter the program each year by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). Around 50,000 students with the highest Selection Index (calculated by doubling the sum of Reading, Writing and Language, and Math test scores) qualify for recognition in the program These students are notified in the fall of their senior year that they have qualified as Commended Students or Semifinalists Semifinalists can advance to Finalist standing in the competition through further evaluation of academic performance and standardized test scores

Seniors Raymond Cao, Alexander Garside, Madeline Martin, Luxi Qin, Evan Todd, and Price Wilson were recognized as Commended Students. Simon Lumpkin and Luke Weinbach were recognized as Semifinalists