36 DC Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

WASHINGTON, DC — National Merit Scholarship Corporation officials recently announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The list included 36 students from Washington, D.C.

The semifinalists have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

The full list of semifinalists from D.C. is below:

GEORGETOWN DAY H. S.
000 Atwood, Abraham
000 Brooks, Thomas N.
000 Brown, Evan J.
000 Freedman, Levi H.
000 Kirsch, Isabel L.
000 Mostashari, Samson B.
000 Stern, Benjamin G.
000 Thomas, Karen U.

GEORGETOWN VISITATION
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
000 Kolesar, Mary T.

MARET SCHOOL
463 Ball-Heldman, Julius M.
837 Matsumoto, Kendall

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL
000 Giannattasio, Alex J.
833 Mott, Anna May
900 Pearson, Brett E.
900 Song, Paulina Q.

SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS
743 Buring, Ella S.
185 Diggs-Galligan, Sophia E.

SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL
999 Anderson, Tala M.
168 Brodnax, Sarah K.
830 Chen, William D.
000 Gupta, Rahul V.
999 Keto, William R.
628 Kislovskiy, Nicole J.
700 Mundaca, Ana
999 Neaher, Sofia
168 Stark, Ella C.
454 Stepanyan, Elen
904 Zhang, Alexandra

ST. ALBANS SCHOOL
450 Busching, William
999 Child, Trevor R.
900 Klingler, John A.
999 Rufino, Jonathan E.
000 Sastry, Jayram M.
163 Schneider, Gabriel
833 Shapiro, Griffin T.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE H. S.
000 Jefferson, Camille M.

WOODROW WILSON H. S.
999 Himmelfarb, Samuel A.

Patch editor Vincent Salzo contributed to this report.

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