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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2020

NATIONAL MERIT® SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
September 11, 2019 Announcement

Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Phone: (847) 866-5100

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Website: www.nationalmerit.org

Advance: For release on Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Note to editors: Semifinalists in your state are listed alphabetically by city and
high school following this press release.
This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names of
Semifinalists; its use for any other purpose is prohibited.

Caution: Using numbers of Semifinalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or

states will result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit® Scholarship Program honors
individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous
college studies. The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within
a school, system, or state. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSC’s
website at www.nationalmerit.org.

Semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit® Scholarship Program

(Evanston, Illinois) Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC)

announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit
Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to
continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31
million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award,
Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.
Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half
of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was

established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 400 business
organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s
scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program

Steps in the 2020 Competition

Over 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test (PSAT/NMSQT ®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide
pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the
highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the
state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed
scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalist’s academic record,
participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment,
and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record through-
out high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn
SAT ® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance
to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit
Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are
selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college
studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
National Merit Scholarships
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2020. Every
Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on
a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be
provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their
specified criteria, such as children of the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where
sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected
to finance some 4,100 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the
sponsor institution.

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2020 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than
345,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

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Semifinalists: 2020 National
Merit Scholarship Program
NEW YORK
AMHERST
AMHERST CENTRAL H. S.
450 Klee, Alexander G.
ARDSLEY
ARDSLEY H. S.
500 Batska, Alexander
450 Brahmbhatt, Isha C.
ARMONK
BYRAM HILLS H. S.
520 Ferrari, Christina M.
400 Hoffman, Kallie B.
000 Lowe, Elena M.
ASTORIA
BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR
GLOBAL EDUCATION
457 Bisht, Abhay S.
160 Kenny, Aoife M.
999 Lee, James R.
AVERILL PARK
AVERILL PARK H. S.
791 Limoges, Adam R.
605 Ware, Lydia L.
BABYLON
BABYLON H. S.
907 Hannon, Katherine M.
300 Nyman, Steven E.
BALDWINSVILLE
CHARLES W. BAKER H. S.
000 Boutilier, Jacqueline M.
000 Penhollow, Nora K.
BARDONIA
ALBERTUS MAGNUS H. S.
628 Dedyo, Morgan Daly
BAYPORT
BAYPORT BLUE POINT H. S.
000 Kirby, Madeleine
BEDFORD
FOX LANE H. S.
894 Boylan, Makenzie R.
630 Cunningham, Laura C.
451 Donchev, Valeriy A.
999 Karas, Ethan A.
000 Poor, Kenneth Glen
BELLMORE
JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S.
302 Frank, David G.
883 Jutsen, Madeline
300 Milch, Mikaela
BETHPAGE
BETHPAGE H. S.
999 Drosos, Eirini
BREWSTER
BREWSTER H. S.
830 DiFabbio, Andrew V.
000 Lurin, Aaron W.
BRIARCLIFF MANOR
BRIARCLIFF H. S.
741 De Castro, Daniel S.
303 Halevi, Gil
171 Jacobs, Joshua B.
301 Li, Matthew
950 Tu, Michael J.
BRONX
BRONX H. S. OF SCIENCE
000 Banos, Emma-Victoria S.
870 Bao, Ashley
999 Brown, Jennifer J.
161 Bundo, Kristi
301 Cao, Shuyu
450 Chau, Darren
999
200
Ross, Alexander H.
Shen, Amber R.
171
450
Cheng, Holly
Falbaum, Noah A.
450 Vanderbush, Knut A. 000 Jafar, Zain
BRONXVILLE
999
900
Katz, Arden M.
Katz, David C.
BRONXVILLE H. S. 999 Leibner, Ellie I.
628 Li, Brian 990 Lindner, Kira P.
743 Mellinghoff, Sabrina D. 999 Miller, Jacob H.
120 Stewart, Samuel R.
Chen, Alexis M. Tavlarakis, Christina D.
628
870 Chen, Chuangwei
BROOKLYN
BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL
628
000 Templeton, Charlotte
742 Chi, Christopher B. 000 Levy, Evelina 209 Wang, Kevin
160 Cooper, Zoe C. 300 Xiang, Alec Y.
520 Deng, Xiang Feng BROOKLYN TECHNICAL H. S. 870 Xu, Daniel
870 Goldberg, Leann 200 Attia, Joseph M. 907 Zadeck, Rebecca H.
170 Jacob, Jaime G. 999 Bavalsky, Alexander
560 Klein, Milene E. 000 Beker, David E. CHATHAM
999 Kofman, Benjamin G. 451 Bershchanskiy, Vlad CHATHAM H. S.
301 Kotagiri, Saketh 740 Birmakher, Solomon 520 Damia, Heather L.
990 Kumar, Chirag 218 Boatswain, Tyla M.
451 Learmonth, Harper K. 999 Dorfman, Alexander CLARENCE
773 Li, Bowen 302 Evans, Nicholas N. CLARENCE H. S.
302 Li, Viky 712 Javaid, Zarnaab 947 Davidson, Tessa A.
160 Lobosco, Devin M. 712 Jiang, Tracy 185 Giangrasso, Grant J.
000 Losonczy, Alexander K. 162 Lama, Phuntsok 000 Hansen, Ryan S.
999 Maeglin, Amanda M. 999 Liang, Jasmine 950 Renzoni, Alexander D.
161 Mahootian, Zhaleh A. 833 Olson, Malcolm C.
185 Mikolajczak, Jakub 204 Parker, Miles E.
999 Montag, Suzune M. 461 Schempp, Felix K.
CLIFTON PARK
162 Morgan, Wyatt S. SHENENDEHOWA H. S.
161 Streminsky, Mark J.
121 Moulton, Melody A. 773 Feleder, Julieta
166 Wai, Su Su
467 Munsell, Jeffrey A. 833 Flatland, Annabel
164 Waxenberg, Talya
456 Mustafa, Afreen 999 Lassetter, Zackary
303 Wu, Windy
710 Nahmiyas, Nesim I. 164 Sarad, Mikaila Ysobel
200 Zef, Nicole
999 Ng, Cassandra F. 450 Zheng, Haoxian
999 Nicastro, Benjamin K. 628 Zhu, Rene COLD SPRING HARBOR
999 Pilosov, Benjamin N. COLD SPRING HARBOR H. S.
302 Plossl, Alexander C. MASORES BAIS YAAKOV H. S. 457 Nordemann, Bernhard H.
999 Rivera, Dante D. 999 Abramowitz, Yael 940 Tesoriero, Anna J.
628 Schnitzlein, Brooke A. 999 Vegna, Paige E.
160 Schuchert, Maya F. MESIVTA TIFERES 162 Weis, Claire E.
168 Seong, William YISROEL SCHOOL
000 Urena, Katherine 999 Abramowitz, Akiva COMMACK
894 Wang, Howard COMMACK H. S.
454 Wilson, Hector J. MIDWOOD H. S. AT 455 Chipetine, Tyler
160 Zhao, Joanna BROOKLYN COLLEGE 204 Frank, Jake A.
451 Wu, Anson D. 303 Levy, Corey D.
FIELDSTON SCHOOL 200 Wu Wu, Jeniffer 450 Liao, Kimberly
907 Auburn, Rebecca R. 200 Parrinello, Michael V.
999 Temel, Jan A. PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE 300 Robinson, Paige S.
185 Zemmel, Zachary 000 Harty, Katherine A. 250 Sahin, Funda E.
000 Sontarp, Ethan J.
HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERICAN POLY PREP COUNTRY 455 Viglietta, Louis B.
STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE DAY SCHOOL
999 Gerber, Julian M. 161 Twomey, Haleigh R. CORNING
999 Grene, Andrea S. 999 Weinstein, Emily K. CORNING - PAINTED POST H. S.
999 Houton, Abigail L. 450 Dejneka, Abigail M.
999 Kabat, Emily ST. ANN'S SCHOOL 843 Jacob, Dennis G.
999 Lawrence, Damon 742 Adler, Benjamin
999 Markman, Zoe 999 Fink, Aaron P. CORTLANDT MANOR
999 Novarr, Julian C. 742 Robinson, Finlay HOMESCHOOL
999 Ostrow, Amelia P. 843 Stewart, Luca 000 Brodsky, David J.
901 Podolsky, Isabel P.
999 Saperstein, Joseph XAVERIAN H. S. WALTER PANAS H. S.
000 Temerian, Max 204 Deitchman, Logan R.
628 Miriyagalla, Amaavi
HORACE MANN SCHOOL BUFFALO
NICHOLS SCHOOL CROSS RIVER
160 Agrawal, Malhaar JOHN JAY H. S.
461 Chung, Max A. 905 McClure, Michael H.
303 Wu, Junqi 164 Leff, Jessica B.
200 Cohen, Pierson 550 Schechter, Johanna C.
742 Dimitrov, Victor H.
000 Feinere, Amelia CANANDAIGUA
161 Han, Richard CANANDAIGUA ACADEMY CROTON - ON - HUDSON
164 Harris, Jack B. 451 Dennis, Kevin R. CROTON - HARMON H. S.
999 Gesue, Rowen N.
000 Kahn, Spencer B.
CARMEL 712 Hunter, Evan M.
999 Kannan, Ishaan
CARMEL H. S. 450 Pollak, Jesse R.
303 Karpf, Owen E.
204 Khakee, Suraj A. 999 Mederer, Sophia M.
904 Kim, Euwan DE WITT
999 Lee, Daniel H. CEDARHURST JAMESVILLE - DE WITT H. S.
000 Mark, Alexa J. HEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE 999 Porter, Caleb I.
303 Mather, Eleanor B. TOWNS AND ROCKAWAY 900 Porter, Colby J.
999 Mehrotra, Amiya S. 500 Lederer, David J.
200 Rosenzweig, Benjamin D. 450 Rabinowitz, Jennifer R. DELMAR
901 Voruganti, Priyanka BETHLEHEM CENTRAL H. S.
999 Werdiger, Robert CENTEREACH 743 Bievenue, Henry C.
742 Woodruff, Dora CENTEREACH H. S. 160 Courtney, Isabelle C.
200 Wu, Remy L. 000 Walsh, Natalie F. 160 Emery, Lleyton E.
999 Yang, Hyunseo 554 Mazidabadifarahani, Navid
843 Yang, Jayer CENTRAL VALLEY 168 Patel, Avi J.
MONROE WOODBURY H. S. 300 Sui, Kevin D.
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL 870 Nicoll, Kathryn M.
830 Abramson, Joshua O. DIX HILLS
712 Frank, Jennifer K. CHAPPAQUA HALF HOLLOW HILLS H. S. EAST
820 Geller, Mason R. HORACE GREELEY H. S. 204 Banai, William
908 Horne, Rachel E. 000 Caspar, Jared A. 791 Chen, Melissa M.
741 Lu, Erxi 303 Chen, Elizabeth 700 Nagpal, Jay
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430 Hu, Carly HASTINGS - ON - HUDSON 600 Lee, Rachelle F.
New York (continued) 166 Koyi, Bindu HASTINGS H. S. 836 Lin, Jennifer Z.
204 Pan, Jia Qi 000 Weitzman, Alexander P. 628 Patel, Riya H.
600 Prifti, Denion 712 Pecorara, Michael J.
628 Suneja, Shreya 999 Shi, Daniel K. HAUPPAUGE 302 Pietraski, Miranda K.
771 Ye, Tong C. 628 Tan, Emily C. HAUPPAUGE H. S. 160 Turgut, Alp S.
999 Tran, Jonathan 000 Epstein, Sophie R. 907 Weinberger, Brian S.
HALF HOLLOW HILLS H. S. WEST 303 Werther, Shane B. 000 Yao, Benjamin L.
162 Kim, Miles 302 Xie, Javah HEWLETT 301 Yu, Robert W.
200 Levinton, Brett H. GEORGE W. HEWLETT H. S. 999 Yum, Nicholas K.
160 Pandya, Poojan FRANKLIN SQUARE 209 Hoffman, Jack I.
600 Rahman, Effat M. H. FRANK CAREY H. S. 451 Tang, Alex KEENE VALLEY
628 Ye, Jocelyn 000 Zhang, Yican 999 Vilensky, David L. KEENE CENTRAL SCHOOL
723 Ellis, Emrys
DOBBS FERRY FREDONIA HEWLETT BAY PARK
DOBBS FERRY H. S. FREDONIA H. S. STELLA K. ABRAHAM H. S. KINGS PARK
522 Cohen, Zachary M. 740 Kuzdzal, Colton D. 000 Glatt, Elisheva A. KINGS PARK H. S.
467 Velonis, Corbin T. 628 Ma, Celina
GARDEN CITY HICKSVILLE 740 O'Connor, Taryn M.
THE MASTERS SCHOOL HICKSVILLE H. S.
000 Anhouse, Dara J.
GARDEN CITY H. S.
999 Choi, Sarah KINGSTON
843 Kucich, Alexandra A.
000 Azzariti, Lawrence L. 162 Jain, Viveka KINGSTON H. S.
470 Lynch, James J.
000 Faber, Sarah 303 Dong, Stephen
467 O'Connor, Bridget
000 Pietsch, Owen HIGHLAND
999 Quinn, Kayla
160 Staub, Katherine B. HIGHLAND H. S.
EAST AMHERST 164 Bansal, Ishani
LA GRANGEVILLE
999 Zheng, James ARLINGTON H. S.
WILLIAMSVILLE EAST H. S. 628 Tran, Minh D.
628 Ahmed, Samir H.
999 An, Jennie
GHENT 836 Grey, Caleb D.
712 Kim, Sydney N. HILTON
HAWTHORNE VALLEY SCHOOL 843 Itty, Abigail A.
160 Lane, Rachel E. HILTON CENTRAL H. S.
000 Bergquist, Solomon Kaj 000 Noyes, Henry D.
166 Pratapwar, Megha 897 Garbowski, Skylaar D.
710 Raj, Nina
999 Su, Freda Y. GLEN COVE HONEOYE FALLS LAKE LUZERNE
GLEN COVE H. S. HONEOYE FALLS - LIMA H. S. HADLEY LUZERNE H. S.
EAST GREENBUSH 200 Khaimov, Nicole 833 Cody, Lindsay 950 Price, Shannon K.
COLUMBIA H. S.
451 Ball, Owen D. GLEN HEAD HOPEWELL JUNCTION LAKE PLACID
LONG ISLAND LUTHERAN H. S. JOHN JAY H. S. NORTHWOOD SCHOOL
EAST HAMPTON 000 Semelka, Andrew J. 453 Healey, Jessica C. 605 Jang, Su Hae
EAST HAMPTON H. S.
000 Woolcott, Wells HORSEHEADS LANCASTER
NORTH SHORE H. S.
160 Hoell, Dylan J. HORSEHEADS H. S. LANCASTER CENTRAL H. S.
EAST MEADOW 463 McCreery, Kyra 185 Peterson, Alexander E. 682 Goss, Amanda
EAST MEADOW H. S. 999 McPartlin, Molly E. 890 Sovik, Matthew C.
628 Adupa, Vaishnavi LANSING
168 Fong, Alyssa HUNTINGTON LANSING H. S.
450 Wiencek, Alexa S. GOSHEN
GOSHEN H. S. HUNTINGTON H. S. 999 Garcia, Teresa N.
450 Gennarelli, Matthew T. 908 Hull, Siobhan M.
254 Jessup, Sydney K.
EAST SETAUKET 454 Malhotra, Anya
450 Knowles, Andrew J.
WARD MELVILLE H. S. 832 Knowles, Ryan T. LATHAM
999 Butkevich, Jake T.
GREAT NECK SHAKER H. S.
467 Fiorella, Matthew J. IRVINGTON
GREAT NECK SOUTH H. S. 522 Canete, Kimi D.
999 Liu, Katherine G. IRVINGTON H. S.
000 Dong, Yian 821 Kaushik, Aarya A.
300 Lu, Keene 000 Gupta, Rishit
000 Duval, Julia D. 161 Lo, Edward
209 Moore, Christopher H. 000 Palmieri, Adriana I.
000 Fazal, Ali I. 450 McGuirk, Mary K.
301 Sun, William H. 000 Sullivan, Aidan J.
000 George, Austin Z. 999 Shamlian, Elizabeth M.
907 Templeton, Benjamin A.
000 Grosul, Elizabeth 185 Shamlian, Victoria G.
000 Zhang, Justin T. ISLIP TERRACE
000 Katz, Talia 301 Wang, Shuang Heng
160 Zhang, Rebecca S. EAST ISLIP H. S.
000 Liu, Christina
303 Rost, William
EASTCHESTER 000 Liu, Timothy C. LAWRENCE
EASTCHESTER H. S. 000 Magidson, Gabriel D. RAMBAM MESIVTA H. S.
000 Saha, Shourav B.
ITHACA 999 Sussman, Uriel M.
123 Dube, Elias HOMESCHOOL
000 Siong Sin, Joelle
555 Verhagen, Theodora R.
ELLENVILLE 000 Yin, Keena LIDO BEACH
ELLENVILLE H. S. ITHACA H. S. LONG BEACH H. S.
999 Shiffer, Jasmine S. JOHN L. MILLER - GREAT NECK 000 Conuel, Mae T. 000 Gupta, Arjun
NORTH H. S. 870 Cowett, Nora J.
ELMA 000 Lin, Raymond J. 000 Hector, Kezia E. LINCOLNDALE
IROQUOIS CENTRAL H. S. 628 Mueller, Arielle 302 Hwang-Geddes, Lillian V. SOMERS H. S.
603 Testa, Marshall R. 628 Zeng, Daniel Q. 999 Imani, Kaelan S. 162 Janecka, Maeve A.
772 Treadwell, Margot J. 300 Mao, Ryan W.
VILLAGE SCHOOL 500 Shvets, Samuel C. LINDENHURST
FAIRPORT 000 Dayani, Isabella 999 Waller, Deacon J. LINDENHURST H. S.
FAIRPORT H. S. 628 Wang, Kelvin L. 628 Szygalowicz, Veronica
451 Doser, Samuil K. GREENLAWN 302 Ye, Gilbert C.
301 Munechika, David A. HARBORFIELDS H. S. 303 Yuan, Patrick LOCKPORT
162 Pollack, Emily J. 164 Cordero, Aidan STARPOINT H. S.
000 Ruan, Amy W. 467 Kapen, Simon A. JAMAICA 000 Licata, Sydney R.
450 Russo, Jillian R. QUEENS H. S. FOR THE SCIENCES
950 Stringer, Henry S. AT YORK COLLEGE
999 Zsenits, Veronika M. GUILDERLAND CENTER 461 Bisram, Ajay LOCUST VALLEY
GUILDERLAND H. S. LOCUST VALLEY H. S.
209 Ishmael, Reanna
160 Guo, Bryan Y. 603 Cialone, Nina R.
FAYETTEVILLE
450 DiSpirito, Michael C.
HOMESCHOOL SUMMIT SCHOOL
HARRISON 160 Hsu, Michelle A.
303 McDonald, Anna C. 907 Tarrant, Zachary R.
HARRISON H. S. 455 Paulus, Nitha J.
000 Nekoz, Jessica L.
700 Cooper, Matthew Z. JERICHO
FLUSHING 160 Robb, Josephine JERICHO H. S. LONG ISLAND CITY
TOWNSEND HARRIS H. S. 712 Zinman, Ava F. 710 Adarichev, Matthew BARD H. S. EARLY
619 Chen, Cathy 303 Chang, Logan COLLEGE QUEENS
836 Choi, Christie K. HARTSDALE 741 Chen, Zihou 999 Haft, Natasha
999 Elliott, Spencer E. SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL 740 Choi, Jason
450 Fang, Letian OF WESTCHESTER 451 Friedman-Jha, Anshul LYNBROOK
740 Ha, Hope H. 453 Farca, Adina S. 907 Gan, Emily LYNBROOK H. S.
204 He, Carine 457 Lampert, Daniel M. 628 Hossain, Razeen 999 Rath, Anna V.

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New York (continued)
MAHOPAC
MAHOPAC H. S.
450 Vitanza, Vincent J.
MALONE
FRANKLIN ACADEMY H. S.
000 Barkman, Zachary A.
MAMARONECK
MAMARONECK H. S.
302 Astorina, Alexander J.
450 Dobkin, Gabrielle F.
628 Haigis, Liana V.
833 Kalish, Lillian H.
000 McLaren, Iain N.
000 Santamaria, Nico
792 Spiridellis, Kaitlin E.
907 Ward, Jesse D.
RYE NECK H. S.
185 West, Grace B.
MANHASSET
MANHASSET H. S.
940 Cao, Amanda
000 Furlong, Catherine M.
999 Ginsburg, Sydney R.
843 Kiley, Matthew
300 Li, Jiacheng
200 Liu, Justin C.
430 Matos, Sofia A.
742 Park, Dohyeon
000 Reinhardt, Oliver L.
999 Wesson, Ella R.
999 Wu, Elizabeth E.
463 Zhao, Serena
MANLIUS
FAYETTEVILLE - MANLIUS H. S.
000 Hale, Carter
000 Jia, Michael
000 Khmelkov, Michael
000 Langenberg, George N.
000 Lim, Michelle K.
000 Popp, Daniel J.
000 Scott, Flavia M.
000 Taeckens, Elijah A.
000 Yang, Katherine A.
MANORVILLE
EASTPORT SOUTH MANOR H. S.
740 van der Watt, Camille A.
MASSAPEQUA
MASSAPEQUA H. S.
459 Chillemi, Jack M.
MASSENA
MASSENA CENTRAL H. S.
000 Witkop, Jack H.
MILLBROOK
MILLBROOK SCHOOL
830 Wang, Mingxuan
MINEOLA
CHAMINADE H. S.
999 Brandvold, Connor J.
999 Russo, Luke G.
999 Townley, Peter
MONSEY
BAIS YAAKOV OF SPRING VALLEY
000 Belsky, Sarah
000 Jacobson, Avigail
MONTROSE
HENDRICK HUDSON H. S.
166 Reilly, James P.
MOUNT SINAI
MOUNT SINAI H. S.
450 Angress, Aaron E.
894 McFadden, Kayla M.
NANUET
NANUET H. S.
161 Nikac, Alexander F.
NEW CITY
CLARKSTOWN H. S. NORTH
166 Truong, Louis
NEW HARTFORD ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL H. S.
NEW HARTFORD H. S. 000 Buchdahl, Elijah S.
454 Cetinkaya, Mehmet E.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR MATH,
NEW HYDE PARK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT
HERRICKS H. S. CITY COLLEGE
160 Chen, Nicole Y. 522 Chen, Alyssa
250 Chin, Jenna 160 Gerra, Aiko L.
161 Kang, Gloria H. 000 Jacoby-Cooper, Gabriel B.
999 Khanderia, Rohan 999 Lontok, Angelo B.
121 Lum, Christopher 999 Podolsky, Sophia P.
501 Min, Daniel 451 Stedman, Jasper N.
303 Paciullo, Michael A.
602 Patel, Shreya S.
301 Singhal, Rahul HUNTER COLLEGE H. S.
303 Agarwal, Rohan
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL H. S. 907 Ahn, Samuel
164 Argiro, Elizabeth
990 Gopal, Megha
185 Bose-Roy, Ryan
628 Chan, Matthew
NEW PALTZ
600 Deng, Prudence
NEW PALTZ CENTRAL H. S. 999 Drevitch, Natalie P.
742 Kelso, Philip R.
456 Duran, Kyle
000 Weinstein, Jacob N.
907 Eyal, Benjamin
000 Willett, Wells
999 Fan, Catherine
955 Fitzpatrick, David A.
NEW ROCHELLE
843 Geogdzhayeva, Maria
NEW ROCHELLE H. S.
628 Goldstein, Lily B.
742 Bartell, Stephen A.
303 Guo, Bonnie M.
000 Cohen, Aaron M. 999 Hammond, Benjamin
742 Freed, Martina R. 720 Hisajima, Rina F.
628 Kazakov, Abigail 600 Hung, Fiona E.
000 Schloss, Maya S. 302 Hyatt, Marin E.
450 Spillane, Kate M. 999 Islam, Raya
837 Jackson, Nathan
NEW YORK 204 James, Lance A.
BARD H. S. EARLY 302 Jiang, Janet
COLLEGE MANHATTAN 454 Karson, Dana G.
000 Bitman, Elizabeth 999 Kim, Jeremy S.
000 Novruzov, Nadira 302 Kumawat, Hiren B.
303 Kwan, Evan
BREARLEY SCHOOL 999 Kwong, Evan
000 Ellenson, Taite H. 250 La, Alice
628 Foglino, Francesca E. 501 Lee, Thomas J.
710 Keohane, Frances N. 254 Leung, Russell J.
000 Moses, Charlotte R. 904 Li, Maximilian
999 Nguyen, Maya 170 Li, Sophia L.
722 Sylvor Greenberg, Abigail E. 854 Liang, Jackie
300 Wu, Zoe 999 Light, Adam E.
209 Yang, Isabella 742 Lu-Chua, Mitchell E.
204 Luo, Eric
BROWNING SCHOOL 830 Mangum Lehmann, Olivia A.
999 Chapin, Hugh T. 999 Merkelson, Lia R.
455 Milrod, Maya L.
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 892 Morvay, Eszter
000 Crystal, William S. 999 Nayda, Roza B.
000 Deshpande, Chinmay M. 000 Parsons, Elijah A.
000 Kim, Joshua L. 451 Rau, Arun S.
000 Kim, Ryan T. 772 Rui, Rachel
000 Lin, Jun A. 700 Shang, Claire Y.
000 Nydick, Brandon B. 830 Slater, Benjamin T.
000 Recanati-Kaplan, Leonardo M. 906 Smith, Asher
200 Solecki, David S.
COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND 254 Surjadi, Milla O.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL 700 Tawil, Edward A.
000 Fischer, Kurt D. 000 Waksbaum, Eli
000 Martin, Nicholas 162 Wang, Brian
000 Riedman, Matthew A.
501 Wang, John J.
999 Wong, Madeline
COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL 450 Wu, Celina
FOR MATH, SCIENCE, 836 Wu, Ryan
AND ENGINEERING
908 Xia, Chelsea W.
628 Arain, Haroon
204 Yang, Robert
417 Frye Yanos, Theodore 870 Yoo, David D.
830 Pasbjerg, Allison P. 162 Zhang, Jiahao
000 Villanueva, Patrick 870 Zhang, Michael J.
741 Zhou, Charles V.
CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART
999 Grimes, Catherine A.
520 Rooney, Lauren E.
LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK
451 Haimo, Henry N.
DALTON SCHOOL
700 Cahill, Phoebe J. MANHATTAN H. S. FOR GIRLS
904 Ehrenkranz, Jacob B. 450 Spoerri, Tamar H.
500 Foley, Timothy E.
742 Jamee, Mehrab S. MARYMOUNT SCHOOL
000 Kronenberg, Lucy R. 720 Hong, Gemma H.
000 Levy, Raphael T.
457 McGrath, Theo G.
450 Min, Elizabeth D. NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO
000 Sikder, Md Abid SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
000 Sloan, Nina S. MATH H. S.
302 Glasser, Margot Joanne Zo
FRIENDS SEMINARY
700 Bindman, Isaac L. NIGHTINGALE - BAMFORD
450 Chiodi, Isabella M. SCHOOL
999 DeFranco, Luca C. 000 Schnitzer, Natalie B.
900 Wollen, Miranda K. 999 White, Lauren N.
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RAMAZ SCHOOL
160 Buller, Zachary G.
204 Fisher, Jacob W.
160 Schizer, Josephine
REGIS H. S.
906 Benitez, Matias L.
999 Brush, Charles F.
999 Foncillas, Rafael M.
303 Graber, Ethan J.
843 Greene, Cameron J.
450 Kim, Harrison Y.
999 Kim, William J.
209 King, Justin C.
628 Lawton, Thomas P.
999 Lee, Chan
123 Mantello, Michael J.
603 Mark, Robert O.
161 McGrory, Noel H.
821 Piccininni, Justin T.
200 Ross, Shane J.
502 Schachner, Timothy J.
553 Wang, Fengyuan
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT H. S.
000 Russack, Nicole
773 Serin, Ava N.
999 Smith, Theodora
SPENCE SCHOOL
000 Cahilly, Caroline E.
628 Li, Courtney J.
000 Ong, Siew Teng
907 Rezak, Charlotte A.
201 Shimura, Kurumi
999 Usdan, Dora Y.
000 Xu, Nancy L.
MARSHA STERN
TALMUDICAL ACADEMY
452 Marmon, Elishama P.
STUYVESANT H. S.
619 Andrews, Harper C.
160 Anika, Tasnim K.
742 Avrahami, Benjamin
204 Bae, Christian J.
712 Brestovitskiy, Julia S.
843 Bui, Leon
999 Charles-Davis, Angelique E.
000 Chen, Eric M.
000 Chen, Kevin
999 Chen, Marvin B.
000 Chen, Michael
945 Chen, Stephanie
999 Chen, Thomas
999 Chen, Vanessa
710 Chen, Vella
303 Cheung, Rachael T.
628 Choi, Da Hae
164 Choi, Yeseul
302 Chu, Calvin D.
000 Collins, Rebecca A.
999 Dao, Sydney
999 Das, Akash
941 Davis, Zoe H.
171 Doss, Elizabeth A.
946 Ehrlichman, Cecilia R.
162 Farah, Fariya A.
700 Ferguson, Elias M.
400 Fong, Dorothy
999 Fong, Vincent C.
301 Galakhov, Ivan
999 Goldstein, Max B.
303 Gomez, Daniel A.
451 Gorbachev, Yevgeniy
303 Guan, Christy
168 Haiman, Aditi
160 Halder, Amy
700 Han, Stella B.
999 Hao, Leilei
161 Hart, Julia
943 Hesse, Morgan E.
870 Huang, Amy
302 Huang, Peihua
303 Huang, Qiong Zhou
302 Ishikawa, Kaily Y.
501 Jankauskas, Darius
166 Jin, Lily
700 Johnson, Baird V.
300 Kha, Irtesam
710 Kim, Hana R.
457 Kong, Jonas
451 Lam, Eric
457 Lam, Jason J.
300 Lau, Eric
907 Lee, Jeremy C.
Semifinalists: 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program
NEWBURGH 160 Hoy, Caroline C. RYE H. S.
New York (continued) NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY 999 Kim, Hannah I. 712 Jonassen, Nicole
450 Eliadis, George J. 520 McCamant, Elise H. 185 Kim, Hahnbie A.
742 Uman, Clara S. 457 Labovitz, Audrey M.
NEWFANE 302 Wang, William Y. 200 Liu, Michael
204 Lee, Joseph 906 Rosenstadt, Zachary M.
467 Lee, Junhee NEWFANE H. S.
451 Lee, Justin 950 Moran, Nathan J. PLAINVIEW
870 Lee, Steven PLAINVIEW - OLD BETHPAGE RYE BROOK
600 Leong, Alexander NISKAYUNA JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S. BLIND BROOK H. S.
NISKAYUNA H. S. 454 Dong, Kristen E. 999 Baker-Butler, Abraham G.
628 Lerman, Erica J.
999 Bushway, Lillian A. 000 Kies, Gregory C. 836 Chao, Alex R.
999 Li, Anna
185 Conrad, Ethan J. 999 Kim, Ziho 712 Rosenzweig, Nicole S.
306 Li, Kevin
999 Malatesta, Allison M. 000 Korn, Elizabeth N. 999 Vuong, Sabrina M.
999 Lian, Christina
999 Malcevic, Tatiana 302 Robinson, Cameron V. 906 Weintraub, Lauryn
303 Lin, Jackie
710 St. Jeanos, Christine 214 Weiss, Alexander J.
999 Lin, Jason
200 Lin, Marvin 209 Yao, Benjamin Y. PLATTSBURGH
300 Lin, Vinson SETON CATHOLIC SARATOGA SPRINGS
300 Lin, William NORTHPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL SARATOGA SPRINGS H. S.
160 Liu, Gui J. NORTHPORT H. S. 700 Moore, Luke W. 907 Goss, Avinash M.
200 Lubelsky, Aeryn 999 Lerner, Ayla P. 999 Harrison, Devon G.
160 Lung, Erek J. PORT JEFFERSON
836 Ma, Lennie NYACK EARL L. VANDERMEULEN H. S. SAUGERTIES
450 Magoc, Caroline G. NYACK H. S. 450 Than, Giuseppina C. SAUGERTIES H. S.
833 Maksin, Leon S. 740 Heider, Isabel 999 Peters, Nicole T.
999 Mao, Grace PORT WASHINGTON
602 Moh, Tony OCEANSIDE PAUL D. SCHREIBER H. S. SCARSDALE
000 Namgoong, Han F. OCEANSIDE H. S. 160 Fried, Harrison S.
EDGEMONT H. S.
303 Ni, Alice L. 160 Bogdanova-Shapkina, Margarita 000 Hu, Alan J.
400 Guo, Tiffany
501 Nichol, Sophie E. 950 Wile, Ethan R. 999 Kang, Joongoo
999 Maddison, Chiara C.
628 Nyima, Tashi D. 450 Lew-Kiedrowska, Olga
301 Ren, Jeannie D.
522 Park, Emma J. OLD BETHPAGE 218 Lin, Iris C.
450 Shroff, Maansi
999 Park, Leia HOMESCHOOL 451 Markowitz, Ross J.
204 Sollinger, Noah W.
906 Pepper, Julia 000 Scarpa, Joseph C. 459 Sandhu, Amar
455 Wong, Kyle J.
999 Quentin, Mael 559 Shah, Rohan C.
450 Rahman, Umana I. OLD WESTBURY 999 Tucker, Laura C.
843 Robertson, Michael D. THE WHEATLEY SCHOOL
POTSDAM 185 Yaghoobzadeh, Kion D.
890 Saha, Debasree POTSDAM CENTRAL H. S. 999 Zagorsky, Ariella R.
999 Li, Karen H.
628 Shau, Eric 303 Ajit, Ashwin
303 Ramos, Madison A.
771 Shen, Regina 740 Lufkin, Leon SCARSDALE H. S.
303 Wong, Trenton J.
970 Shi, Sonjia 161 Yamin, Alia I. 303 Asriev, Vladimir A.
999 Siddiq, Noshin 120 Zhong, Sharon POUGHKEEPSIE 000 Bandsma, Ward X.
700 Singh, Reva B. OUR LADY OF LOURDES H. S. 999 Brenner, Lucy
303 Siragusa, Charlotte A. ORANGEBURG 450 DeGuzman, Theodore A. 522 Carroll, Craig G.
467 Sontag, David J. TAPPAN ZEE H. S. 185 Chan, Alison K.
742 Sun, Yihang 522 Ahn, Hannah POUGHKEEPSIE DAY SCHOOL 712 Chen, Patrick
500 Sur, Jooahn 999 Kaul-Seidman, Nachman S. 162 Dhuri, Anika S.
300 Tan, Manfred Z. ORCHARD PARK 162 Higgins, Caroline J.
999 Tan, Sonia M. ORCHARD PARK H. S. SPACKENKILL H. S. 214 Jansky, Dylan H.
000 Thaler, Alma 161 Bell, Abigail N. 454 Choudhury, Sabah H. 999 Kelson, Charlotte S.
628 Tung, Yu Fan 999 Henrich, Christian J. 999 Lee, Calvin S.
712 Urbaniak, Matylda A. 121 Quinlan, Rose C. 900 Mainster, Eve L.
999 Wang, Aaron QUEENSBURY 843 Martin, Spencer
303 Stuhr, Eric J. QUEENSBURY H. S.
200 Wang, Allen 710 Masic, Luka F.
742 Scheidegger, Robert F.
999 Wang, Kevin OSSINING 907 Morin, Andrew
302 Wang, Steve OSSINING H. S. 000 Peng, David
200 Wang, Tiffany RICHMOND HILL 000 Roberts, Caroline C.
200 Sunder, Pujita YESHIVA SHAAR HATORAH
467 Weng, Andy 185 Silvers, Jack K.
160 Wong, Victoria 214 Thumim, David 303 Wei, Eric L.
209 Xia, Anna OYSTER BAY 300 Weiner, Mark 185 Yang, Max
628 Xu, Lan OYSTER BAY H. S. 430 Zou, Lauren
450 Yagerman, Amanda M. 209 Lachman, Gisele L. RIVERDALE
999 Yang, Colin SAR H. S. SHIRLEY
946 Yin, Derek PAWLING 000 Feintuch, Elisheva HOMESCHOOL
303 Zborovsky, Greg E. PAWLING H. S. 450 Levitt, Aaron J. 459 DeMasi, Jackson M.
300 Zen, Hilary 501 Bai, Michael A. 836 Rubenstein, Maya S.
999 Zenker, Ben H. 454 O'Hara, Lily
SHORTSVILLE
743 Zhang, Aldrich ROCHESTER RED JACKET H. S.
628 Zhang, Chelsea PEARL RIVER BRIGHTON H. S. 103 Penird, Lillian S.
743 Zhou, George PEARL RIVER H. S. 830 Berger, Henry P.
300 Zou, Jackson 999 Byman, Luke D.
906 Cooper, Megan P. SLEEPY HOLLOW
834 McAllister, James V.
999 Finnigan, Maya M. SLEEPY HOLLOW H. S.
TRINITY SCHOOL 793 Hall, Sawyer J. 254 Clayton, Sarah E.
301 Buc, Amelie J.
PELHAM 742 Lieb, Hayden T.
000 De Rocco, Cleo M.
PELHAM MEMORIAL H. S. 999 Paine, Alexander
834 Brady, Lance A. SOMERS
454 Dingemans, Gabriel J. JOHN F. KENNEDY CATHOLIC H. S.
628 Lal, Asher
906 Eicher, Aimee M. GREECE ATHENA H. S. 300 Agnihotri, Taran
171 Wei, Tszki Peter
000 Fang, Vivian 999 Miner, Nathan 200 Ciamei, Lina
999 Giordano, Ariana R.
000 Hess, Eben D. PENFIELD
PENFIELD H. S. HARLEY SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTON
000 Kejela, Adey S. 161 Lee, Noah D. ST. ANTHONY'S H. S.
000 Lu, Justin Y. 700 Higgins, Morgan A.
451 Wilcox, Osar 171 Brady-Fuchsman, Meghan G.
204 Luo, Brandon 160 Duong, Teresa T.
999 Rhee, Dylan PITTSFORD
PITTSFORD MENDON H. S. ROSLYN HEIGHTS 520 Leahy, Cassandra M.
160 Ryan, Alexa H.
628 Amin, Kanhai S. ROSLYN H. S.
252 Sorensen, Katharine L.
303 Teichholtz, Leah J. 605 Dai, Patrick J. 204 Farber, Zoe P. SPENCERPORT
161 Deuel, Megan G. 450 Flashner, Joshua A. SPENCERPORT H. S.
000 Wang, Victoria Y.
162 Kukla, Christopher J. 459 Flyer, Daniel I. 743 Weaver, Thomas J.
522 Woods, Jordan J.
457 Mazzacane, Anthony L. 628 Grewal, Daleep S.
999 Zhang, Sophia Y.
454 Owlett, Kyle 999 Tom, Catherine ST. JAMES
455 Pandya, Meera P. 999 Yoon, Kyle SMITHTOWN H. S. EAST
UNITED NATIONS 166 Soliman, Paul S. 302 Chilakamarthy, Ritvik V.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 167 Wallis, Sadie RYE 742 Dervan, Brendan J.
000 Tseng, Wenche J. 162 Wiandt, Hanna RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
906 Mollerus, Ellen STATEN ISLAND
XAVIER H. S. PITTSFORD SUTHERLAND H. S. 301 Pujadas, Jaume C. MONSIGNOR FARRELL H. S.
742 Manta, Michael N. 837 Bornheim, Sierra P. 209 Stefanoni, Aldo 904 Lombardi, Christopher W.

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Semifinalists: 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program
WEST BABYLON
New York (continued) WEST BABYLON H. S.
301 O'Sullivan, Ryan

STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL H. S. WESTBURY

450 Asirwatham, Gautaman R.
600 Brewi, Shannon E.
903 Feder, Kate S.
830 Fox, Jacob S.
000 Indictor, Daniel A.
451 Kelly, Bernard W.
450 Kim, Ju Eun I.
628 Lin, Debby
400 Min, Sewon
830 Saavedra, Franco D.
710 Scaringella, Angelo J.
200 Shi, Steven J.
628 Zhang, Yin
SUFFERN
SUFFERN H. S.
200 Fleischmann, Scott E.
999 Rao, Eric
204 Xu, Reilly
W. TRESPER CLARKE H. S.
453 Passariello, Emma G.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH
WESTHAMPTON BEACH H. S.
720 Horak, Kay A.
WHITE PLAINS
WHITE PLAINS H. S.
451 Korin, Uriel M.
999 Kris, Owen S.
WILLIAMSVILLE
WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH H. S.
999 Martin, Kevin M.
303 Masi, Nicholas J.
999 Olearczyk, Emily
454 Roy, Sayantika
303 Setlur, Pranav

SYOSSET WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH H. S.

303 Dunn, Austin W.
OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY
999 Patane, Brianna N.
WOODMERE
DAVIS RENOV STAHLER YESHIVA
SYOSSET H. S. H. S. FOR BOYS
161 Albert, Jacqueline R.
999 Brafman, Joshua M.
628 Barbella, Giulia M.
000 Fortgang, Shlomo
501 Chen, Connor J.
999 Deitch, Caleb F.
999 Dhulia, Ronit
YONKERS
999 Duan, Vivian W.
YONKERS H. S.
520 Maron Schaeffer, Beatrice T.
170 Jang, Sophia S.
843 Lampert, Lance
160 Lee, Caroline YORKTOWN HEIGHTS
000 Li, Cindy F. YORKTOWN H. S.
999 Vohra, Nikhil 450 Gupta, Nimisha
999 Xu, Kevin 999 Jeon, Ethan
000 Zhuo, Alex 553 Jocelyn, Laura K.
308 Lin, Michael A.
628 Lu, Andrew Y.
SYRACUSE 450 Schutz, Spencer S.
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY
628 Lucas, Elizabeth R.

THOMAS J. CORCORAN H. S.
461 Shanahan, Connor M.

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

520 Cannavo, Pierina J.
200 Sonnenfeld, Nathan I.

WESTHILL H. S.
628 Stamey, Thomas R.

TARRYTOWN
HACKLEY SCHOOL
000 Murphy, Liam A.

THIELLS
NORTH ROCKLAND H. S.
904 Carr, Michael R.

TROY
EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL
954 Bae, Jihye
712 Choi, Eura

TUXEDO PARK
GEORGE F. BAKER TUXEDO H. S.
160 Spivak, Madison

UNIONDALE
KELLENBERG MEMORIAL H. S.
450 Bartolemea, Paul

VESTAL
VESTAL H. S.
162 Ashok, Ashwath

WANTAGH
WANTAGH H. S.
185 Yao, Athena

WAPPINGERS FALLS
ROY C. KETCHAM H. S.
160 Daneshvar, Kiyan L.

WEBSTER
WEBSTER SCHROEDER H. S.
470 Harrison, Russell J.