21 Radnor-Area Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

RADNOR, PA – Numerous Radnor-area students in public and private schools have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

In total, 21 students in the area made the list.

Radnor High School was represented by 13 students, Academy of Notre Dame de Namur had five, and Archbishop Carroll High School had three students make the cut.

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

Radnor High School

• Neal S. Chan
• Jessica N. Doherty
• Andrew D. Doughan
• Phillip J. Gilbert
• Daniel J. Goldberg
• Niles Huang
• Kamran Kara-Pabani
• Alexander Leonardi
• Emilija Sagaityte
• Sophie H. Samaha
• Charley M. Sutherby
• Lynn Yang
• Chaoyi Zha

Academy of Notre Dame de Namur

• Emily Apadula
• Farran C. Dougherty
• Susana A. Rastelli
• Alexa M. Scavetti
• Lucy M. Van Kula

Archbishop Carroll High School

• Jacob George
• Jonathan D. Gould
• Juliana G. Wallgren

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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