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Earlier this fall, 76 APS seniors were named National Merit Commended Scholars by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). More than two-thirds (about 34,000) of high-scoring students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) have been designated Commended Students. In recognition of their outstanding ability and potential for academic success in college, NMSC honored these students by sending Letters of Commendation to them through their high schools.
This year’s Commended Scholars are:
Arlington Career Center – Remi Barciela, Shangwen Cheng, Julian Eichers, Cody Finnegan, Colin Gaul, Anna Litwiller, Caleb O’Neal, Jamethiel Risacher, Jason Spitzak, Khoi Vu
H-B Woodlawn – Lauren Arnold, Owen Boucher, Edward Hughes, Meredith Lawler, Malia Ornelas, Ramazan Ozkan, Jay Young
Wakefield – Landan Gallardo, Alexis Hart, Nadia Rowe, Siofra Zanol, Alexander Epstein
Washington-Liberty – Grace Abbott, Brian Baptiste, Quinn Breed, Nicholas Cecil, Lincoln Eberly, Alba Edsall, Anna Eliot, William Erwin, Anna Freeman, Arianna Hellman, Dante Julius, Tarek Khalifa, Dylan Klein, Allison Lanier, Alexis Liebert, Cary Lu, Jonathan Malatesta, Daisy Maxwell, Anna Mohanty, Evan Oberkirsch, Frances Shapiro, John Smaragdis, Isla Wearmouth, Sienna Williams
Yorktown – Peter Akay, Ajay Allman, Pariasr Blackburn, Hayden Buell, Iris Carvalho, Samuel Chesser, Zachary Cohen, Mary Dempsey, Alaina Desautels, Andrew Dillon, Ameila Dwyer, Benjamin Fillmore, Larson Grant, Katherine Herrmann, Matthew Herzfeld, Thomas Houchens, Daniel Johnson, Genevieve Lose, Obai Merdad, Connor Mongoven, Caleb Pennington, Elena Reiser, Eleonora Romani, Megan Sartori, Hunter Schmelling, Michael Shields, Philip Thevenet, Amiyah Tigney, Caleb Tran, Brayden Zee
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition among high school students for recognition and college scholarships that began in 1955. The program is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®), a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance. United States high school students enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as an initial screen of over 1.3 million entrants each year, and by meeting published program entry and participation requirements.
