New Hyde Park Senior Makes Semifinals In National Merit Program

From the Sewanhaka Central High School District:

September 19 2019

New Hyde Park celebrates National Merit Semifinalist

Megha Gopal, a senior at New Hyde Park Memorial High School, has been selected as a semifinalist in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

Every year, more than 1.5 million high school students across the nation enter this
academic competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test, and approximately 16,000 of them are identified as semifinalists. Those who achieve
this level of distinction represent the highest-scoring entrants in each state and have the
opportunity to advance to finalist status, with the prospect of winning scholarship awards.
Photo caption: New Hyde Park Memorial High School senior Megha Gopal is pictured with
Principal Dr. Richard Faccio and guidance counselor Eileen Valdes.

This press release was produced by the Sewanhaka Central High School District . The views expressed here are the author’s own.