Harrison High School senior Rajan Mehra has been named a finalist for the National Merit Scholarship program. Winners of this prestigious competition will be announced in May.
The National Merit Scholarship program is an academic competition that began in 1955. Over 1.5 million high school students enter the National Merit program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) each year. In September, roughly 50,000 of the initial applicants were notified that their high test scores had qualified them as either a Commended Student or a Semi Finalist in the program. In addition to Mehra, seniors Jennifer Blum, Dylan Dobrenis, Lauren Jacobowitz, and Mikie Sakanaka were notified last fall that they had been recognized by the National Merit organization.
Mehra will graduate Summa Cum Laude in June, a Harrison High School distinction that recognizes students who have achieved a grade point average of 98.0 or higher through their high school career. Mehra has been a leader of the Model Congress Team, a competitor with the academic quiz show team, a member of both the National Honor and the National Foreign Language Honor Societies, and has spent many years conducting seminars with children and teens on human rights. Mehra will be attending Duke University in the fall.
