Fourteen seniors from Syosset High School have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.
Sarina Awatramani, Michelle Gery, Jared Goff, Andrea He, Philip Jang, Eugene Kim, Natalie Lo, Jessica Page, Janvi Pamnani, Ben Rhee, Yash Samantaray, Sabrina Sussman, Jonah Wu and Michael Ye are among the 16,000 high school students nationwide awarded this distinction by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Syosset’s 14 semifinalists qualified by scoring among the highest in the state on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in 2015, including the top 1 percent nationally. As a result they will compete for approximately 7,500 National Merit scholarships worth more than $33 million. Finalists will be announced in February 2017, with the winners to be named in the spring.
“The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced that approximately 16,000 semifinalists representing less than 1 percent of the 12th graders from throughout the United States received this honor and Syosset High School had 14 recipients,” said Syosset High School Principal Dr. Giovanni Durante. “We are very proud of these students and their incredible academic achievements and wish them continued success in their futures.”
