Westchester Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

Last week, more than 100 high school students from a number of Westchester schools were chosen as semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The students are part of a pool of 16,000 semifinalists throughout the country. From those 16,000, 7,500 finalists will be picked to receive upwards of $32 million in scholarships. These scholarships will be announced next spring prior to college entrance.

This year’s semifinalists were chosen based on 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) scores. They represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Semifinalists from Westchester County are:

Ardsley High School

• Maxwell T. Greenspoon
• Melody S. Kim
• Anya K. Mody
• James Park
• Nina S. Rosenberg

Briarcliff High School

• Noah Benson
• Benjamin N. Cooper
• Andrew G. Van Camp

Bronxville High School

• Joseph B. Kochansky
• Anton G. Tarazi

Blind Brook High School

• Goldfeld, Matias Goldfeld
• Rachel E. Harris
• Adena Kibel
• Kidar Kooverjee
• Agustin G. Otero

Byram Hills High School

• Alan Chang
• Joshua N. Freedman
• Elyse J. Kanner
• Emma S. Lucchino
• David R. McDaniels
• Jonah E. Schwam
• Nicole A. Tissot

Croton-Harmon High School

• Maya Deutchman
• Francis G. Fedora
• Sean Gardiner
• Samantha F. Rubin
• Sophia Tu

Dobbs Ferry High School

• Zachar D. Hankewycz
• Jamie Kramer
• Remy O. Nammour

Edgemont High School

• Danielle B. Duffalo
• Ananya Gupta
• Ananya L. Gurumurthy
• Angie Jang
• Christopher Liu
• Andrea J. Lopreiato
• Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma
• Elizabeth Morton
• Julianna Schalkwyk
• Heather Schneps
• Dhruv S. Sidhwani

Fox Lane High School

• Tristan B. DaCunha
• Isabella F. Pansini
• Beatrice H. Pence
• George S. Quinn
• Diane K. Zhang

French American School Of New York

• Mathieu D. Salz

Hackley School

• Annika Braun
• Henry K. Lin

Harrison High School

• Eli F. Lapkin
• Caroline Wong

Hastings High School

• David B. Dayan
• Aaron H. Forman
• Emma G. Lew
• Leonard H. Meenan-Pakin
• Elliot Riesman-Tremonte
• Anya van Hoogstraten

Hendrick Hudson High School

• Kathleen A. Mahoney
• Haley N. Merchant
• Rachel Y. Moon
• William S. Wohler

Horace Greeley High School

• Massimiliano Z. da Sa
• Ava M. Foster
• Alan Gu
• Nathan C. Huang
• Anabelle Johnston
• Samuel J. Kaplan
• Kevin Liu
• Matthew J. Lohrs
• Sophie Nadel
• Isha Puri
• Ryan Renzulli
• Aditi Singh
• Kathleen M. Sternkopf
• Kenta Togo
• Anna Zhang
• Aron Zhao
• Catherine Zhu

Irvington High School

• Ethan Chang
• Braden C. Donoian
• Chrysmine Wong

John F. Kennedy Catholic High School

• Patricia M. Curtin

John Jay High School