National Merit Scholarship Program Recognizes Dublin High Students

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The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. It acknowledges students for their exceptional academic promise as demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT).

Over 1.5 million students took the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test and entered the National Merit Program, a nationwide competition for academic recognition and awards.

Of the 1.5 million test takers, 50,000 high scorers with the highest PSAT scores in critical reading, writing and mathematics qualify for recognition in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Based on their national index test scores, 34,000 high performers have been named Commended Students.

is proud to honor seven seniors who have received letters of commendation and are recognized as Commended Scholars. Congratulations to:

Ronil Bhatia               
Patricia Li
Irene Liu
Kevin Ngo
Alexander Palomares
Cecilia Wijayang
Cathy Yuan

From the 50,000 high scorers, approximately 15,000 students have been named National Merit Semifinalists. Of these semi-finalists, 8,200 Finalists will be selected as Merit Scholars in Spring 2012. 

It is exciting to announce Dublin High School has three seniors who are honored as Semi-Finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition.  Congratulations to:

Raymond Liu
Andrew Song
Christian Wang