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16 Millburn High Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

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

MILLBURN, NJ — Several Millburn High School students have brought pride to their school 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 Millburn-Short Hills Facebook page here.

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At Millburn High School, this year’s semifinalists included:

  • Bansal, Jai K.
  • Chen, Andrew X.
  • Chen, Henry C.
  • Gottlieb, Noah S.
  • Gu, Alan
  • Guo, Jennifer
  • Laude, Audrey
  • Li, Jessica
  • Nagella, Akshay R.
  • Nyunt, Thedoe
  • Pant, Raghav
  • Ren, Christopher L.
  • Shi, Victoria J.
  • Sirtalan, Mehmet
  • Wu, Yicong
  • Yang, Christine

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