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16 Livingston Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

16 Livingston students were nominated as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2018.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Several Livingston students have brought pride to their schools after being nominated as 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists earlier this week.

According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), about 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. Don’t forget to visit the Patch Livingston Facebook page here.

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At Livingston High School, this year’s semifinalists include:

  • Deng, Eileen
  • Li, Carrie
  • Litvin, Benjamin D.
  • Sohal, Ruhi
  • Wang, Sarah
  • Zhuang, Jerry

At Newark Academy, this year’s semifinalists include:

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  • Anwar, Albert W.
  • Huang, Cynthia
  • Kopparapu, Reshma S.
  • Lebovitz, Eva
  • Tan, Dean K.
  • Tumu, Siddarth R.
  • Xiao, Melody
  • Zhang, Alena
  • Zhu, Allen

At Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School, this year’s semifinalist was:

  • Dickstein, Aaron J.

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