Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
Five students rank in the top one percent of high school seniors nationwide.
Five Sewickley Academy seniors have been named semifinalists in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented students have the opportunity to continue in the competition - along with 16,000 other semifinalists - for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth $33 million that will be offered this spring. Congratulations to Isaac Arjmand, Charles Balaan, Owen Hipwell, Nicholas Kim, and Hannah McGinley.
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More than 1.4 million juniors entered the 2015 National Merit Program by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.
To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal or head of school, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test. National Merit Scholars are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
