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29 Detroit Country Day School Senior Students Named 2017 National Merit Semifinalists
A total of 19 percent of DCDS's Class of 2017 have been recognized as some of the highest achieving entrants in the state
Detroit Country Day School (DCDS) announced that 29 of the school’s 155 senior year students—which equates to 19 percent of the Class of 2017 and the highest in school memory—were named 2017 National Merit Semifinalists. The students will have the opportunity to compete for approximately 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million. DCDS Headmaster Glen Shilling made the announcement.
“Each year a number of our students are recognized for the hard work and academic scholarship that goes into this remarkable achievement,” Shilling said. “To have such a high percentage of our students among the best and brightest scholars in our nation this year speaks volumes about the programs and opportunities our faculty, staff and community work every day to create. The class of 2017 has set the academic bar very high.”
Semifinalists are categorized as the highest scoring entrants in each state. About 1.5 million junior class students enter the National Merit Scholarship Program each year by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. In order to qualify as a semifinalist, students must score well on the qualifying test, earn SAT scores that validate the student’s performance on the qualifying test, possess an outstanding academic record throughout high school, and be recommended by the high school principal. The finalists’ scholarships will be presented in spring 2017.
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The 2017 DCDS National Merit and Achievement Semifinalists include:
Krishan Amin (Troy)
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Clark Arenberg (Northville)
Gurliv Chahal (Northville)
Dilan Dubey (Troy)
Annie Fu (Northville)
Rahul Khambete (West Bloomfield)
Noreen Khan (Northville)
Georgia Kralovich (Farmington Hills)
Justin Lee (Novi)
Jacob Mackey (Commerce)
Arnav Mahajan (Troy)
Bharath Mamidipaka (Northville)
Aarya Menon (Novi)
Rohit Misra (West Bloomfield)
Anagha Nayak (Ann Arbor)
Elizabeth Obermaier (Northville)
Milind Rao (Bloomfield Hills)
Samina Saifee (Rochester Hills)
Omer Siddiqui (Bloomfield Hills)
James Sun (West Bloomfield)
Tara Tang (Canton)
Pratik Vadlamudi (Northville)
Divya Venkat (West Bloomfield)
Catherine Xie (Troy)
Ashley Xu (Franklin)
Helen Xu (Northville)
Helen Yang (Northville)
Benjamin Yared (Bloomfield Hills)
Jiwon Yun (Oakland Township)
