28 Newton Students Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists

NEWTON, MA — Twenty-eight Newton students have been named semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

Of the 16,000 students nationwide chosen for the semifinalist round, 7,500 will go on to earn a total of nearly $30 million in scholarships in the spring.

High school juniors entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of entrants. Less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors make the cut, and to become a finalist, students must submit a detailed application.

The 2022 National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in four news releases beginning in April and ending in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 362,000 other students who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

Here are the students from Newton who made the semifinalist cut:

• Elizabeth Lesher - Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
• Rebecca E. Simen - Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
• Nolan M. Anthony - Newton South High School
• Arlo D. Cohen - Newton South High School
• Theo Datta - Newton South High School
• Jenny He - Newton South High School
• Ellyssa J. Jeong - Newton South High School
• Joyce M. Lee - Newton South High School
• Yucheng Liu - Newton South High School
• Nicholas J. Manthei - Newton South High School
• Gabriel J. Stern - Newton South High School
• Michael H. Sun - Newton South High School
• Elizabeth J. Weaver - Newton South High School
• Lorna L. Arcese - Newton North High School
• William D. Ayinon - Newton North High School
• Tyler W. Bean - Newton North High School
• Griffin C. Bond - Newton North High School
• Eitan Z. Borenstein - Newton North High School
• Madeline A. Fabry - Newton North High School
• Steven R. Gao - Newton North High School
• Zoe Gardner-Matviak - Newton North High School
• Williams T. Goldsmith - Newton North High School
• Keiji D. Imai - Newton North High School
• William S. McNally - Newton North High School
• Ria V. Mehrotra - Newton North High School
• Yurika S. Tarui - Newton North High School
• Anthony H. Wang - Newton North High School
• Eric Yu - Newton North High School