20 Stamford Public Schools Seniors Named As 'Commended Students'

STAMFORD, CT — Stamford Public Schools (SPS) announced that the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program named 20 Stamford seniors from all three city high schools as Commended Students.

The students are recognized for the exceptional academic promise demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PAST/NMSQT).

Academy of Information Technology & Engineering

• Nidhi Bendre
• Kevin Fleischer
• Mikael Petersen
• Richa Rao
• Aishwarya Sivasubramanian

Stamford High School

• Alyssa Chen
• Peter Christian
• Leonora Lipson
• Selin Osman
• Alexander Rubin
• Emerson Sigtryggsson
• Aaron Stark
• Priyanka Umamaheswaran
• Jeremy Young
• Karina Zaleski

Westhill High School

• Christie Blonkvist
• Marissa Crevecoeur
• Andrew Hicks
• Connor Sullivan
• Anupriya Lulla

Some 34,000, of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT receive letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended Students are selected based on a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year to year and is typically below the level required for participants to be named semifinalists in their respective states.

Although Commended Students do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some of these students do become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.