213 Named National Merit Semifinalists in the Hudson Valley

Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced on Wednesday the names of about 16,000 Semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program, and as usual, high schools in the Hudson Valley are well-represented.

Local powerhouses are Scarsdale High School, with 26; Horace Greeley High School, with 14; John Jay High School in Cross River, with 11; Edgemont High School, with 11; and the Hackley School, with 10.

These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

The NMSC groups schools by community, with notable quirks; for example, Somers High School is under Lincolndale, the hamlet in Somers where it is located; Tuckahoe High School is listed in Eastchester.

ARDSLEY

ARDSLEY H. S.

• Brann, Tamsyn J.
• Florez, Christopher E.
• Gold, Zachary J.
• Hornyak, Rose K.
• Weiss, Ethan D.

ARMONK

BYRAM HILLS H. S.

• Amorosana, William D.
• Chong, Isabelle P.
• Daillak, Thomas
• Dan, Indra N.
• Eng, Timothy
• Jacobs, Noah C.
• You, Sabrina
• Zepf, Juliana

BEDFORD

FOX LANE H. S.

• Gilbert, Sara B.
• Lehman, Abigail
• Voltaggio, Liliana M.

BREWSTER

BREWSTER H. S.

• Urvantsev, Viktor V.

BRIARCLIFF MANOR

BRIARCLIFF H. S.

• Ho, Megan L.
• Manimala, Samantha
• Schoepke, Alexandra C.
• Underwood, Sophie E.

BRONXVILLE

BRONXVILLE H. S.

• Arcano, Samuel
• Dougherty, Joseph F.
• Kim, Audrey M.
• Kradjel, Brian J.
• McKelvy, Margaret H.
• Reich, Ethan D.
• Swartz, James
• Vorbach, Charles J.

CARMEL

CARMEL H. S.

• Mederer, Anna C.

CHAPPAQUA

HORACE GREELEY H. S.

• Greene, Owen A.
• Hiebert, Michael D.
• Lindner, Talia
• Ma, Richard
• Malhotra, Aryan
• Schelling, Rebecca E.
• Stein, Adam J.
• Townsend, Meaghan E.
• Wang, Eric
• Wei, James F.
• Woolf, Lily
• Zavarella, Timothy D.
• Zhang, Lan
• Zheng, Raymond H.

CROSS RIVER

JOHN JAY H. S.

• Aoki, Nicholas B.
• Arbolino, John
• Gomes, Matthew
• Guo, DeeAnn
• Kaplan, Gregory
• Kaplan, Zachary
• Krawitt, Jasper W.
• Lee, Sophie
• Mingle, Jackson S.
• Sfreddo, Mark
• Sorkin, David

CROTON-ON-HUDSON

CROTON-HARMON H. S.

• Bauder, Sophie L.
• Seidman, Sarah

DOBBS FERRY

DOBBS FERRY H. S.

• Hankewycz, Terenia P.
• Hord, Blake R.

THE MASTERS SCHOOL

• DeLong, Courtney H.
• Hock, Edward L.
• Palmer, Zoe L.

EASTCHESTER

EASTCHESTER H. S.

• Abe, Hiroko
• Kimura-Thollander, Minna Y.
• Mancusi, Daniel
• Zhu, Andy

TUCKAHOE H. S.

• Kyriakakos, Maria

GOSHEN

GOSHEN H. S.

• Pasquini, Nina H.

HARRISON

HARRISON H. S.

• Rawson, Madeline V.
• Zinman, Matthew A.

HARTSDALE

SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF WESTCHESTER

• Siegel, Matthew J.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON

HASTINGS H. S.

• Bisaga, Emily

HOPEWELL JUNCTION

JOHN JAY H. S.

• Kline, Matthew F.
• Ledalla, Karthik

IRVINGTON

IRVINGTON H. S.

• Kerner, Max B.
• Meng-Killeen, Ryan F.
• Mermelstein, Zoe E.
• Montgomery, Clara
• Pickar, Evan A.

KINGSTON

KINGSTON H. S.

• Liu, Michael J.

LA GRANGEVILLE

ARLINGTON H. S.

• Chen, Zaiqian
• Gurevich, Natasha
• Kim, Boyoung
• Zhao, Kaitlyn

LINCOLNDALE

SOMERS H. S.

• Croen, Michelle G.
• MacNeil, Emma K.
• Reynolds, Nathan T.
• Szpynda, Adriana
• Szpynda, Emily
• Worsley, Mark C.

MAHOPAC

MAHOPAC H. S.

• Scanlon, Thomas J.

MAMARONECK

FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NEW YORK

• Boillot, Aramis
• Jabbour, Marc
• Paumier, Nathan H.

MAMARONECK H. S.

• le Blanc, Lucie
• Lehman, David
• Mollin, Jack A.
• Shen, Kevin

RYE NECK H. S.

• Shaw, Fraser
• Yang, Amber G.

MONSEY

BAIS YAAKOV OF SPRING VALLEY

• Rapp, Etta

MONTROSE

HENDRICK HUDSON H. S.

• Yu, Wendy N.

NANUET

NANUET H. S.

• Thomas, Joel

NEW CITY

CLARKSTOWN H. S. NORTH

• Goyal, Simar

NEW ROCHELLE

IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL

• Pile, Iain M.
• Schwartz, Michael L.

NEW ROCHELLE H. S.

• Yu, Wendy

SALESIAN H. S.

• Hagopian, George H.

URSULINE SCHOOL

• Cho, Theresa
• Keenan, Caroline E.

NEW WINDSOR

CORNWALL CENTRAL H. S.

• Wu, Jake M.

ORANGEBURG

TAPPAN ZEE H. S.

• Gould, Samuel I.
• Kaplan, Andrew C.
• Lustig, David

OSSINING

OSSINING H. S.

• Scanteianu, Adriana

PEARL RIVER

PEARL RIVER H. S.

• Lam, Zong

PELHAM

PELHAM MEMORIAL H. S.

• Hurd, Benjamin
• Salama, Jonathan

PLEASANTVILLE

PLEASANTVILLE H. S.

• Tu, Eddie Y.

POUGHKEEPSIE

OUR LADY OF LOURDES H. S.

• Lam, Andrew P.
• Mantaro, Emily R.

SPACKENKILL H. S.

• Li, Vincent X.
• Liang, Nathan
• Long, Isabel M.
• Mozeshtam, Leah
• Shankar, Anubhav
• Waxman, Robert I.

PUTNAM VALLEY

PUTNAM VALLEY H. S.

• Silva, Mariana P.

RHINEBECK

RHINEBECK CENTRAL SCHOOL

• Ayton, Elizabeth E.
• Tsang, Mia

RYE

RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

• Asness, Will
• Briano, Juan
• Khosla, Duncan
• Leva, Daniel
• Luo, Kasey
• Mollerus, Catherine C.
• Stefanoni, Enzo
• Swan, Noah J.

RYE H. S.

• Burke, Arthur M.
• Desai, Aarsh
• Hager, Thomas R.
• Hu, Alexander T.
• Hufford, Allison R.
• Mueller, Keaton I.

SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD

• Pace, Caroline G.

RYE BROOK

BLIND BROOK H. S.

• Glick, Jonah R.
• Reddy, Rowan G.
• Weintraub, Bryan A.

SCARSDALE

EDGEMONT H. S.

• Barnwal, Anshul
• Brandfonbrener, James A.
• Gupta, Nikita
• Kim, Michelle
• Lu, Alexander T.
• Parsi, Pranav
• Reyes Gomez, Federico J.
• Saha, Mitul
• Salsberg, Avery
• Stern, Kasey
• Wexler, Jocelyn H.

SCARSDALE H. S.

• Arora, Srishti
• Blatt, Louisa E.
• Boxer, Miles
• Brody, Tyler L.
• Chang, Vincent
• Clapp, Laura L.
• Ewing, Zoe L.
• Gao, Cindy D.
• Gillespie, Claire M.
• Kapner, Zachary
• Kaspers, Thatcher A.
• Kaufman, Caroline
• Kelson, Caroline M.
• Kourakos, Michael H.
• Landau, Michael S.
• Levin, Andrew M.
• Li, Dexin
• Ng, Julia E.
• Rastogi, Keshav M.
• Rothberg, Samantha
• Singer, Lauren H.
• Suzman, Chloe H.
• Weinbaum, Seth P.
• Yaseen, Grant D.
• Zhang, Yunmo
• Zipursky, Gillian

SLEEPY HOLLOW

SLEEPY HOLLOW H. S.

• Basescu, Dylan
• Friedman, David J.

SOMERS

JOHN F. KENNEDY CATHOLIC H. S.

• Gould, Kyle T.

SUFFERN

SUFFERN H. S.

• Keane, Caitriona

TARRYTOWN

HACKLEY SCHOOL

• Ampil, Isabella C.
• Friesen, Owen F.
• Lawton, Joseph R.
• Leonard, Samuel J.
• Meyer, Catherine M.
• Patterson, Amanda
• Popov, Alexander
• Roesser, Malcolm S.
• Schwidel, Brooke
• Straus, Aurora E.

UPPER NYACK

SUMMIT SCHOOL

• Sit, Edgar

VALHALLA

VALHALLA H. S.

• Yamazaki, Jeannie

WEST NYACK

CLARKSTOWN H. S. SOUTH

• Byrnes, Katherine J.
• Kay, Jonathan
• Lam, Alexander
• Wu, Mike A.

WHITE PLAINS

WHITE PLAINS H. S.

• Crino, Nicholas M.
• Hausknecht, Elana
• Lichtblau, Noah

YONKERS

YONKERS H. S.

• Chen, Daniel G.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS

YORKTOWN H. S.

• Anand, Sidharth A.
• Ciarcia, Julia N.
• Gmoser, Elizabeth C.
• Huang, Emily Y.

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