2017 National Merit Scholarships: 24 Hudson Valley College-Sponsored Winners

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — More than 3,200 winners of National Merit Scholarships — financed by U.S. college and universities — were announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation Wednesday. Of those, 24 students were from the Hudson Valley. The awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

College-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners announced Wednesday are part of about 7,500 high school seniors who will receive National Merit Scholarships for college undergraduate study worth more than $32 million.

Earlier this spring, winners of the corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarships and National Merit $2,500 Scholarships were announced.

More than 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

An additional group of scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2017 competition to approximately 4,000.

The Hudson Valley winners of the college-sponsored Merit Scholarships are as follows:

• Samuel Arcano of Bronxville, Bronxville High School, Probable career field: Politics, National Merit Colorado College Scholarship
• Maria Kyriakakos of Bronxville, Tuckahoe High School, Probable career field: Biotechnology, National Merit Tufts University Scholarship
• Terenia P. Hankewycz of Dobbs Ferry, Dobbs Ferry High School, Probable career field: Engineering, National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship
• Nicholas B. Aoki of Goldens Bridge, John Jay High School in Cross River, Probable career field: Economics, National Merit University of Chicago Scholarship
• Avery Salsberg of Hartsdale, Edgemont High School, Probable career field: Business, National Merit Vanderbilt University Scholarship
• Emily Bisaga of Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings High School, Probable career field: Activism, National Merit Tufts University Scholarship
• Michael J. Liu of Hurley, Kingston High School, Probable career field: Bioengineering, National Merit Stony Brook University Scholarship
• Max B. Kerner of Irvington, Irvington High School, Probable career field: English Literature, National Merit Carleton College Scholarship
• David Lehman of Larchmont, Mamaroneck High School, Probable career field: Mechanical Engineering, National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship
• Fraser Shaw of Mamaroneck, Rye Neck High School, Probable career field: Engineering, National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship
• Caroline E. Keenan of Mount Vernon, Ursuline School in New Rochelle, Probable career field: Mathematics, National Merit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Simar Goyal of New City, Clarkstown High School North, Probable career field: Medicine, National Merit Baylor University Scholarship
• Richard Ma of Pleasantville, Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, Probable career field: Finance, National Merit Fordham University Scholarship
• Zachary Kaplan of Pound Ridge, John Jay High School in Cross River, Probable career field: Undecided, National Merit Bowdoin College Scholarship
• Srishti Arora of Scarsdale, Scarsdale High School, Probable career field: Pediatrics, National Merit Vanderbilt University Scholarship
• Caroline M. Kelson of Scarsdale, Scarsdale High School, Probable career field: Business, National Merit Vanderbilt University Scholarship
• Seth P. Weinbaum of Scarsdale, Scarsdale High School, Probable career field: Investment Banking, National Merit Vanderbilt University Scholarship
• Dylan Basescu of Sleepy Hollow, Sleepy Hollow High School, Probable career field: Political Science, National Merit George Washington University Scholarship
• Noah Lichtblau of White Plains, White Plains High School, Probable career field: Mathematics, National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship
• Patrick Trinh of White Plains, Stuyvesant High School in New York, Probable career field: Medicine, National Merit Stony Brook University Scholarship
• Julia N. Ciarcia of Yorktown Heights, Yorktown High School, Probable career field: Neuroscience, National Merit Fordham University Scholarship
• Elizabeth C. Gmoser of Yorktown Heights, Yorktown High School, Probable career field: Engineering, National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship
• Kyle T. Gould of Yorktown Heights, John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, Probable career field: Computer Science, National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship
• Michael L. Schwartz of Yonkers, Edgemont High School, Probable career field: Economics, National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship

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