Congrats to Summit’s National Merit Scholars
Summit High School was honored to have 4 students recognized as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and 27 as commended students.
Approximately, 1.6 million juniors entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.
From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and in February 2017 they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
In addition to the National Merit awards, the College Board has chosen several Summit High School students as part of the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP). Every year, the NHRP recognizes about 5,000 of the 250,000 Hispanic/Latino juniors who take the PSAT. This year, Summit High School has seven students recognized in this program, whose main purpose is to identify academically exceptional Hispanic/Latino students.
A list of the recognized students is included below.
Semifinalists
Ethan Kantor
Christopher Kelser
Katherine Scheer
Matthew Colon
Commended Students
Aaron Abkmeier
Laura Baldacchino
Savannah Dooley
William Freeman
Matthew Grange
Alexis Greenblatt
Christopher Heckelman
Andrew Hollenhaugh
Jack Johnson
Brandon Johnston
Katherin Kusmin
Kiera Little
Finn McTernan
Maxwell Model
David Naiman
Yannick Nandury
Delaney O’Dowd
Emma Osborne
Christopher Ripsam-Walsh
William Schaffer
Kunal Sengupta
Elina Turner
Matthew Wilson
Rachel Blume
Sabrina Fleischman
Brandon Gomes
Alina Patrick
Hispanic Recognition Program
Rachel Blume
Sabrina Fleishman
Brandon Gomes
Alina Patrick
Pilar Canavosio
Diego Pinzon
Matthew Colon
