Last week, more than 100 high school students from a number of Westchester schools were chosen as semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The students are part of a pool of 16,000 semifinalists throughout the country. From those 16,000, 7,500 finalists will be picked to receive upwards of $32 million in scholarships. These scholarships will be announced next spring prior to college entrance.
This year’s semifinalists were chosen based on 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) scores. They represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
Semifinalists from Westchester County are:
Ardsley High School
- Maxwell T. Greenspoon
- Melody S. Kim
- Anya K. Mody
- James Park
- Nina S. Rosenberg
Briarcliff High School
- Noah Benson
- Benjamin N. Cooper
- Andrew G. Van Camp
Bronxville High School
- Joseph B. Kochansky
- Anton G. Tarazi
Blind Brook High School
- Goldfeld, Matias Goldfeld
- Rachel E. Harris
- Adena Kibel
- Kidar Kooverjee
- Agustin G. Otero
Byram Hills High School
- Alan Chang
- Joshua N. Freedman
- Elyse J. Kanner
- Emma S. Lucchino
- David R. McDaniels
- Jonah E. Schwam
- Nicole A. Tissot
Croton-Harmon High School
- Maya Deutchman
- Francis G. Fedora
- Sean Gardiner
- Samantha F. Rubin
- Sophia Tu
Dobbs Ferry High School
- Zachar D. Hankewycz
- Jamie Kramer
- Remy O. Nammour
Edgemont High School
- Danielle B. Duffalo
- Ananya Gupta
- Ananya L. Gurumurthy
- Angie Jang
- Christopher Liu
- Andrea J. Lopreiato
- Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma
- Elizabeth Morton
- Julianna Schalkwyk
- Heather Schneps
- Dhruv S. Sidhwani
Fox Lane High School
- Tristan B. DaCunha
- Isabella F. Pansini
- Beatrice H. Pence
- George S. Quinn
- Diane K. Zhang
French American School Of New York
- Mathieu D. Salz
Hackley School
- Annika Braun
- Henry K. Lin
Harrison High School
- Eli F. Lapkin
- Caroline Wong
Hastings High School
- David B. Dayan
- Aaron H. Forman
- Emma G. Lew
- Leonard H. Meenan-Pakin
- Elliot Riesman-Tremonte
- Anya van Hoogstraten
Hendrick Hudson High School
- Kathleen A. Mahoney
- Haley N. Merchant
- Rachel Y. Moon
- William S. Wohler
Horace Greeley High School
- Massimiliano Z. da Sa
- Ava M. Foster
- Alan Gu
- Nathan C. Huang
- Anabelle Johnston
- Samuel J. Kaplan
- Kevin Liu
- Matthew J. Lohrs
- Sophie Nadel
- Isha Puri
- Ryan Renzulli
- Aditi Singh
- Kathleen M. Sternkopf
- Kenta Togo
- Anna Zhang
- Aron Zhao
- Catherine Zhu
Irvington High School
- Ethan Chang
- Braden C. Donoian
- Chrysmine Wong
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School
-
Patricia M. Curtin
John Jay High School
- Shunan J. Chang
- Thomas M. Feinstein
- James Lucassen
- Ruby M. Potash
- Conor T. Roberts
- Jacob D. Tabs
- Abigail G. Wilson
- Fayth C. Wisehar
Lakeland High School
- Alison D. Bretti
- Jothi M. Ramsawamy
Mamaroneck High School
- James T. Anderson
- Jackson Derby
- John F. Dillon
- Joshua Nidus
- Leah M. Roffman
Pelham Memorial High School
- Elise Aronson
- Rachel R. Brewer
- Richard Che
- Benjamin D. Glickman
- Liam Ronan
Pleasantville High School
-
Andrew G. Skrzypczak.
Solomon Schecter School of Westchester
- Alyx Bernstein
- Aidan L. Golub
- Ethan L. Mayblum
New Rochelle High School
- Elizabeth Crocker
- Joshua C. Glickman
- Adam M. Jones
- Edward W. Jones
Ossining High School
-
Emma J. Montgomery
Rye Country Day School
- James Y. Chen
- Sarah R. Colin
- Esquivel Losada
- Matias Esquivel Losada
- Farrell, Joseph P. Farrell
- Hackett, Alexander R. Hackett
- Mia Hotsuki
- Georgia A. Mandell
- Mindy C. Pang
- Jason C. Schnall
- William I. Shabecoff
- Nishan Shehadeh
- Nicholas Tallis
- Cvan Paasschen
- Cecilia A. van Passchen.
- Yang, Jialin
Rye High School
- Nicholas J. Cich
- Sonia I. Eckstein
- Cynphnie Hsu
- Alexandra Kirk
- Benjamin Kuster
- Katherine J. Langer
- Jonathan Lloyd
- Thomas S. Monaghan
- Alexander J. Noga
- Pranjal Srivastava
Rye Neck High School
- Risa Liebmann
- Delaney R. Park
- Elen Tisnovsky
Sleepy Hollow High School
-
Luca B. Brown
Somers High School
- Noah A. Sanz
- Katherine Taylor
Scarsdale High School
- Anika Agarwal
- Zachary Berkson
- Maya Bharara
- Sarah M. Bock
- Alex Brotman
- Nico A. Cavalluzzi
- Robert J. Ceske
- Noam Cherki
- Teckhua Chiang
- Shamika S. Dhuri
- Katelin Du
- Hannah S. Lamport
- Jenny Liu
- Connor J. McCarthy
- Kelly A. Rutherford
- Samuel E. Saxon
- Talia P. Schulhof
- Elizabeth Sinyavin
- Austin R. Tang
- Zongbo Zhang
Ursuline School
-
Naomi C. Koh
Walter Panas High School
-
Riti Bhandarkar
Yonkers High School
-
Ameya S. Palav
Yorktown High School
- Roopa Duvvi
- Kevin E. Fink
- Jasmine J. Laber
- Tracey Lu
- Eric J. Lu
- Ryan M. Onatzevitch
- Diane Yang
A complete list of semifinalists can be found here.
