Harrison High School Seniors Recognized in 2015 National Merit Scholar Program

Harrison High School senior Catherine Rocchi has been named a 2015 Semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship program. She is among 16,000 semifinalists nationwide to be selected as the highest scoring entrants in each state and will be notified in February/March if she is a finalist and possibly Merit Scholarship winner.

In October 2013, over 1.5 million U.S. high school students, who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and met other program participation requirements, entered the 2015 competition for National Merit Scholarship Program recognition and scholarships. NSMC uses PSAT/NMSQT Selection Index scores – the sum of critical reading, mathematics, and writing skills scores- to determine 50,000 high scoring participants who qualify for program recognition.

Nearly two-thirds of those high scorers received National Merit Scholar Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Harrison High School is proud that two of its seniors were acknowledged as Commended Students in 2015.

National Merit Commended Students are:

Matthew Rube

Olivia Barbulescu