Eighteen seniors from three separate
Spring Branch ISD high schools were recently named as Semifinalists in the
annual National Merit Scholarship program.
In addition to 18 National Merit
Semifinalists, SBISD is home this year to 15 National Hispanic Scholars, 1
National Achievement Scholar and 48 National Merit Commended Scholars.
All National Merit Scholarship
Program Semifinalists may qualify for more than 8,000 National Merit
Scholarships based on their performance last year on the Preliminary
SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The national
scholarships are valued at more than $35 million. More than 1.5 million U.S.
students in 22,000 high schools took the PSAT/NMSQT qualifying test last year.
About 16,000 Semifinalists were
named nationwide. These students reflect the highest scoring test takers across
Texas and other states. Final winners of the 2013 National Merit Scholarship
will be announced next spring.
To qualify for these business and
corporate scholarships, semifinalists must have an outstanding academic high
school record, write an essay, be endorsed and recommended by school officials,
and earn qualifying high SAT scores.
In other recognition areas, National
Hispanic Scholars are identified for their high test scores and self-reported
Hispanic heritage. There are about 1,600 of these scholars nationwide this
year.
National Achievement Scholars have
been identified and named for their high test scores and for their African-American
heritage.
National Commended Scholars
represent the group of highest scoring students after the National Merit
Semifinalists. This year, about 34,000 students nationwide qualified for this
recognition.
National Merit Semifinalists:
Memorial High – Kendra Andersen, Brenna Black, George Chen, Yae Jee Hong, Grant Kirchhofer, Nam Hoon Lee, Rajat Mehndiratta, Matthew Nguyen, Mary Margaret Rotan, Stephen Snow, Jonnathan Sullins, Wan Seo Park
Spring Woods High – Nicolas Turnbough
Stratford High – Nathaniel
Barbour, John Ryan Hormell, Katherine Kennedy, Hannah Lindsey, Reason Russell
National
Hispanic Scholars:
Memorial High –
Briana Burns, Benjamin de Alvarez, Marcus De Ayala, Anna Economos, David
Hartmann, Romelia Herrera Vale, Vitoria Moreno-Costa
Spring Woods High – Christian
Rice
Stratford High – Abril
Brugo, Leila Wahab, Axel Gracia, Hernan Cepeda, Abigail Brown, Diana Ruiz,
Emily Crawford
National
Achievement Scholars:
Stratford High – Nathaniel
Barbour
National
Merit Commended Scholars:
Memorial High – Jessica
Anderson, Callie Beard, Holden Brown, Madison Chambers, Christopher Chou,
Jonathan Chung, Ryan Cowell, David Cremins, Daniel Gawerc, Joseph Guerrant,
Carroll Herring, Neik Khansari, Yae Eun Kim, Nikhil Kumar, Haley Kurisky, Anna
Lai, Justin Lee, James Livingston, Yoseph Maguire, Vitoria Moreno-Costa, John
Pruitt, Erin Roberts, Byoung Ryu, Alison Strealy, Sophie Wilczynski, Tiffany
Wu, Winnie Wu, Xiayu Xu, Stephen Young
Spring Woods High – Marissa
Clark
Stratford High – Abigail
Brown, Ahmed Butt, Weijie Cheng, Sarah Davis, Alexis Frederick, Mary K. Goss,
Leah Hunt, Caroline Kelly, Stephen Krueger, Katherine Leggett, Eila Motley,
Elaine Parizot, Benjamin Riedel, Anye Ye, Christy Zhang
Westchester Academy for
International Studies – Keeli Armitage, Connor June, Adam
Kassir, David Pham
