Four Seniors Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

Four students have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists (from left): Maeve Gallagher, Margaret McBride, Olivia Wirsching, and Olivia D'Angelo. 

Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 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.

Congratulations to these students on this remarkable accomplishment!