The National Merit Scholarship Program recognizes and honors academically talented students across the US. Students qualify for National Merit recognition based on their PSAT results from fall of their junior year of high school. Amity continued its tradition of recognizing the National Merit Commended Scholars and National Merit Semifinalists on Nov. 14 before the Board of Education.
Approximately 3.5 million students participate in the PSAT/NMSQT each fall. Commended scholars honors are awarded to the students who score in approximately the top 3 percent of all test-takers. The semifinalists represent the top 16,000 students in the country – or those who score in approximately the top 1 percent nationally.
The following students received National Merit Commended Scholars recognition: Anushka Acharya, Henry Atwood, Simran Jain, Isha Khan, Marin Korenaga, Matthew Li, June Lin, Daniel Liu, Sophia Liu, Jennifer Luo, Nicholas Massey, Sophia McDermott, Harshil Parmar, Kiley Pickens, Lucas Rodriguez Herlihy, Sreenidhi Tadepalli, Silas Turner, Aadya Wijesekera and Mingyue Zha.
The following students were recognized as National Merit Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists: Piyush Bahel, Jacob Bettencourt, Francis Cavallaro, Jennifer Li, Si Ru Liang, Yuqi Liu, Melinda Lu and Brian Scully.