21 Bryn Mawr-Area Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

BRYN MAWR, PA – Numerous students public and private school students in the Bryn Mawr area have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

In total, 21 students attending schools in Bryn Mawr area made the list.

Harriton High School was represented by nine students, Agnes Irwin School four, the Baldwin School three, Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy three, and the Shipley School two.

See the full list of Bryn Mawr-area National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists below:

Harriton High School

• Thomas P. Devlin
• Derek Goss
• Kiran Khurana
• Shangen Lu
• Portia S. Maidment
• Thomas McKenzie-Smith
• Benjamin Siderowf
• Lihui Wang
• Anthony Zhu

Agnes Irwin School

• Jenny Liang
• Brynne A. Pergolini
• Livia A. Seibert
• Annie S. Ulichney

Baldwin School

• Cara Guernsey
• Hilary Y. Liu
• Pranshu Suri

Jack M. Barrack Hebrew School

• Noah B. Glickman
• Jacob S. Parish
• Matityahu Y. Zeff

Shipley School

• Lydia E. Chambers
• Steven Zhang

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 PSAT.

All semifinalists are eligible to receive 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth $33 million.

The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than 1 percent of high school seniors.

A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier performance on the PSAT.

From the approximately 16,000 semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to be named finalists. Three types of scholarship awards will be offered next year: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.

Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2018.

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