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39 Tredyffrin-Easttown Area Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
Conestoga has the highest number of students of all PA schools to be named semifinalists. Devon Prep also had students make the cut.
TREDYFFRIN-EASTTOWN, PA – A whopping number of Conestoga High School students have been named semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Additionally, students from Devon Preparatory School made the cut.
In total, 34 students at Conestoga made the list of semifinalists. Five Devon Prep students also earned the distinction.
That gives 'Stoga the most students named semifinalists of any school in Pennsylvania.
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See the full list of Tredyffrin-Easttown-area National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists below:
Conestoga High School
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- Madeleine Alwine
- Grace E. An
- Betty Ben Dor
- Reese M. Caldwell
- Leonard Y. Chen
- Danielle F. Dittmann
- Luke J. Ditton
- Sophie L. Dunn
- Christin E. Ealer
- Samantha N. Hall
- Austin F. Harmon
- Lori Y. Huang
- Thomas A. Huck
- Kyle J. Kennedy
- Grace C. Lanouette
- Aaron L. Lee
- Seol-Yee Lee
- Junduo Liu
- Liam J. McLaughlin
- Brady R. Munroe
- Owen C. Neuman
- Arjun Rao
- Ivy C. Wang
- Katherine Y. Xu
- Eric R. Xue
- Joshua Yan
- Lyvia A. Yan
- Justin Yeo
- Elton Zhang
- Harrison G. Zhang
- Brian C. Zhao
- Ethan Zhao
- Warren S. Zhao
- Evan Zhou
Devon Preparatory School
- Robert M. Lignowski
- Jamie W. Lorgus
- Akul Naik
- Daniel P. Redmond
- William M. Stevenson
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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