26 New Trier Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

WINNETKA, IL - Twenty-six New Trier High School students were named National Merit semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation on Wednesday.

Nationally, the organization announced approximately 16,000 semifinalists on Wednesday, all of which will have an opportunity to become finalists and then compete for about 7,500 National Merit scholarships worth about $33 million next spring.

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The ones selected here represent less than 1 percent of high school students nationally.

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Students selected from New Trier were:

Celia R. Buckman
Elizabeth A. Callis
Carlyn A. Chrabaszcz
Mae G. Cody
Sophie C. Coppleters ‘t Wallant
Daniel R. Dodinval
Helen O. Fagan
Nikolai M. Gjaja
Charles C. Hansell
Gabriel D. Isaacson
Jakob Kaminsky
Ishaani S. Khatri
Steven Kochvar
Maxwell J. Minogue
Sara K. Nicholas
Kate Pearce
Daniel R. Pickard
Alexander R. Pruce
Banjamin Schwabe
Katie S. Shia
Allison G. Smith
Aria Snedegar
Connor Warshauer
William A. Webb
Jason Yang
Kristy T. Zeng

In order for the semi-finalists to become National Merit finalists, they must submit a detailed application with information on school achievements, grades, involvement with school clubs and activities and test scores.

About 15,000 of the 16,000 are expected to become finalists. The ones selected will be notified in February.

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