135 HV Seniors Are National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists 2021

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — Across the region, 135 high school seniors have been named semi-finalists for the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.

The semi-finalists were announced on Wednesday and include 16,000 high-school seniors who will go on to compete for the scholarships that will be offered next spring. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Program, about 95 percent of the semi-finalists will be named as finalists in the 67th year of the academic competition.

Of those, about half will win a scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship and the semi-finalists represent less than 1 percent of all high-school seniors in the U.S. For each state, the number of semi-finalists is proportional to that state's percentage of the total graduating seniors in the country.

High school juniors entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the
2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.

The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

To become a finalist, the program explains that students and a high-school official must submit a detailed application. The application must contain information about a student's academic record, leadership abilities, the honors and awards they've received and more.

Students will find out in February whether they make it to the finalist stage.

Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 scholarships on a state-representational basis. Also, about 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by 220 corporations and business organizations, and about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards

The scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April 2022.

The Hudson Valley's semi-finalists are:

Ardsley
ARDSLEY H. S.

• Barnett, Sophie A.
• Kumar, Anisha
• Lu, Joyce
• Mody, Anay
• Stamm, Rosemary E.
• Wang, Alexandra Y.
• Weber, James L.

Armonk
BYRAM HILLS H. S.

• Addeo, Olivia N.
• Bernstein, Ryan
• Ndocaj, John
• Zeltner, Jane B.

Bardonia
ALBERTUS MAGNUS H. S.

• Dedyo, John M.

Briarcliff Manor
BRIARCLIFF H. S.

• Barden, Clara
• Bright, Dylan A.
• Gong, Haonan
• Martin, Lucas M.
• Raut, Neel N.

Bronxville
BRONXVILLE H. S.

• Vranka, Alice E.
• Weir, Isaiah R.
• Wu, Patrick

Carmel
CARMEL H. S.

• Doherty, Ryan M.
• Vaughn, Greta F.

Central Valley
MONROE WOODBURY H. S.

• Liu, Evan

Chappaqua
HORACE GREELEY H. S.

• Feng, Lucy
• Liu, Jack
• Seidman, Andrew B.
• Sun, Linda H.
• Zhang, Jingyan

Cortlandt Manor
HOMESCHOOL

• Brodsky, Erik A.

Croton-on-Hudson
CROTON - HARMON H. S.

• Dash, Nishant

Dobbs Ferry
DOBBS FERRY H. S.

• Fried, Benjamin E.
• Miadelets, Matthew A.

THE MASTERS SCHOOL

• Chang, Andrew

Goshen
GOSHEN H. S.

• Jessup, Zachary S.

Hastings-on-Hudson
HASTINGS H. S.

• Arditi, Alexander L.
• Linder, Charles
• Ward, Bluebell A.

Highland Falls
JAMES I. O'NEILL H. S.

• Riley, Colby J.

Hopewell Junction
JOHN JAY H. S.

• Wang, Brandon M.

Irvington
IRVINGTON H. S.

• Banino, Chloe G.
• Block, Eadin M.
• Chang, Joshua D.
• Huprikar, Aliya K.
• Lebuhn, Katherine B.
• Levin, Samantha F.

LaGrangeville
ARLINGTON H. S.

• Chen, Amy
• Johnston, Kyle D.
• Ye, Angela C.

Mamaroneck
MAMARONECK H. S.

• Conway, Francis M.
• Douglass, Henry S.
• Khan, Fatimah A.
• Paras, Arturo
• Runte, Conrad

RYE NECK H. S.

• Harris, Isaac R.
• Liebmann, Ava G.
• Park, Jessica

Middletown
NORTHERN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

• Cui, Richard

Mount Vernon
MONTFORT ACADEMY

• Rae, David G.

New City
CLARKSTOWN H. S. NORTH

• Sarup, Arjun

New Paltz
NEW PALTZ CENTRAL H. S.

• Johnson, Lora

New Rochelle
NEW ROCHELLE H. S.

• Freed, Kieran R.
• Glennon, Celine
• Selman, Leyla E.

URSULINE SCHOOL

• Milazzo, Lola A.

New Windsor
CORNWALL CENTRAL H. S.

• Harrell, Benjamin R.
• Tolman, Emma S.

North Salem
NORTH SALEM H. S.

• Takken, Mark E.

Nyack
NYACK H. S.

• Connor, Quinn W.
• Lovelace, Juliet
• Udry, Emmy I.

Orangeburg
TAPPAN ZEE H. S.

• Huang, Henry

Pawling
PAWLING H. S.

• Edleman, Jocelyn R.

Pearl River
PEARL RIVER H. S.

• Balison, Matthew J.

Pelham
PELHAM MEMORIAL H. S.

• Herzog, Eliana L.

Pine Bush
PINE BUSH H. S.

• Ahmed, Abraheim A.

Pleasantville
PLEASANTVILLE H. S.

• Coleman, Weston D.
• Fayaz, Amina A.
• Vavolizza, Riley J.

Poughkeepsie
OUR LADY OF LOURDES H. S.

• Connolly, Owen P.

SPACKENKILL H. S.

• Su, Shinrea

Rye
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

• Casale, Grace L.
• Colin, Leah E.
• Gurion, Lior J.
• Merrill, Jackson A.
• Oddi, Lucas A.

RYE H. S.

• Lepore, Luke
• Molitor, Sophie W.
• Yu, Sean,>
• Zengin, Andrew A.

Rye Brook
BLIND BROOK H. S.

• Joshi, Raghav V.

Saugerties
SAUGERTIES H. S.

• Wakefield, Elliot J.

Scarsdale
EDGEMONT H. S.

• Ge, Kenneth
• Lee, Alexander J.
• Miller, Sander J.
• Patel, Dhilan T.
• Patil, Mihir P.
• Richter, Samantha E.
• Roehrl, Michael W.
• Uppuluri, Nishi S.
• Voit, Anya D.
• Wang, Sean

SCARSDALE H. S.

• Bansal, Rishika
• Brockerhoff, Stephen S.
• Drescher, Samuel R.
• Fu, Hui
• Goyal, Ilina
• Lee, Logan
• Lee, Trent R.
• Lubin, Jacob M.
• Sinyavin, Ivan
• Wei, Michael S.
• Yang, Grant T.
• Zhang, Henry C.
• Zitrin, Eliana D.
• Zoota, David H.

Sleepy Hollow
HOMESCHOOL

• Zuba, Sebastian S.

SLEEPY HOLLOW H. S.

• Chen, Kaitlyn M.
• Lyppens, Ryan C.
• Poret, Henry A.

Suffern
SUFFERN H. S.

• Guter, Ron

Tarrytown
HACKLEY SCHOOL

• Degirolami, Thomas C.
• Lee, Maxwel W.
• Reinmann, Molly D.

Valhalla
VALHALLA H. S.

• Sonkin, Jared I.

Wappingers Falls
ROY C. KETCHAM H. S.

• Tullo, Justin J.

Warwick
WARWICK VALLEY H. S.

• Cook, Laura C.
• Hallett, Arden T.

West Nyack
CLARKSTOWN H. S. SOUTH

• Astra, Rishi A.
• Dong, Gabriel H.
• Khanduja, Abhinav
• Lin, Ethan L.
• Luo, Dennis
• Sabile, Karen
• Shah, Devan J.

White Plains
WHITE PLAINS H. S.

• Goldman, Benjamin O.