National Merit Semifinalists Named In Silver Spring: 2022 Contest

Silver Spring MD

15 September, 2021

2:53 PM

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SILVER SPRING, MD — Students in Silver Spring have qualified as semifinalists in the 67th National Merit Scholarship competition. There are 16,000 semifinalists nationwide, and 15,000 of them are expected to go on to become finalists. The students were designated as semifinalists because of their PSAT scores. The students who named as semifinalists in Silver Spring are: Montgomery Blair High School Celeste R. BaskenMatthew R. CasertanoAditya ChattopadhyayAiesha ChaudhrySamuel S. ChenBenjamin M. CohenMaia A. EgnalEfe ErozKevin J. GehlChujia GuoNatanel W. HaRyan Z. HeAndrew J. HealeyAlbert Y. HoAlena Y. HuGrace HuMichael Y. HuSamantha M. JayasunderaShane E. JayasunderaTharindi S. JayatilakeSally L. KayeJihwan KimHawon LeeJason H. LiuGrace MaMalcolm D. MaasLeela K. Mehta-HarwitzRohan I. OjhaJade PaloskyHenry RenEdward G. RongAva C. Santiago Zoe Schoeneman-FryeJoy H. SongSteven SuAmy L. TangAshley ThommanaJeffrey W. TongSamuel K. VerbruggeLiam E. VolzSirui XueHannah T. Zhang Wheaton High School Benjamin B. AndelmanLily Ciel L. BehnamAnne C. Sacks "These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million that will be offered next spring," the National Merit corporation said in the announcement. Finalists will be announced sometime in February, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation said. Finalists can win three types of National Merit Scholarships: $2,500 scholarships, corporate scholarships, and university scholarships. Corporate scholarships typically go to the children of employees or students who live in the community where the corporation is based. University scholarships are granted by the school the student will attend. The winners of the scholarships will be announced in waves from April to June.