29 Stevenson Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Twenty-nine Stevenson High School seniors have been selected as semifinalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition, the high school reports in its Daily Digest.

The honor is based on scores on the 2012 PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test).

Stevenson’s National Merit semifinalists are: Gabriel Antoniak, Sanika Bhargaw, Lara Braverman, Ruibo Cao, Austin Hua, Nam-Joong Hwang, Mikhail Iouchkov, Joanne Jun, Pulkit Kashyap, Reilly Kohn, Jee Ho Lee, Stephanie Li, Michelle Liang, Brian Lin, Anthony Massat, Justin Millman, Aidan Murphy, Iryna Protasova, Akanksha Shah, Jeyeong Sone, Sonia Thosar, Vivian Wan, Cheryl Xiang, Adrienne Yang, Christopher Yao, Sunny Yun, Lily Zhang, Matthew Zhang and Licheng Zhu.

Approximately 16,000 students are semifinalists in the 59th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. They will compete for some 8,000 National Merit scholarships worth more than $35 million offered next spring.

About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2012 PSAT/NMSQT. The semifinalists represent less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors.

National Merit finalists will be announced in February. About 90 percent of semifinalists attain finalist standing, and more than half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.