Irvington students named National Merit Semifinalists, Commended Students, Outstanding Participant

The Irvington School District is proud to announce that our 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists are seniors:

Emily Friedman

Julia Marshall

Tobias Schwed, and

Kyle Tunis.

 The students qualify for the program by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in the fall of that year. More than 1.5 million high school juniors took the qualifying PSAT exam; of those, 16,000 were named semifinalists. Semifinalists are the highest scoring entrants in each state, and represent less than one percent of the nation’s seniors. About 90% of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and more than half will win a National Merit Scholarship.

The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.

High School Principal David Cohen is pleased so many students have been recognized. “I want to congratulate all 14 of our National Merit award winners and their families for the incredible accomplishment this represents,” he said. “As a school and a district, we are incredibly proud of their achievements.”

The eight Irvington students named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Program are:

Madison DeRose

Adrian Knowler

Alexander Mattei

Jack Nienaltow

William Shefelman

Colin Sherman

Trevor Sherman, and

Joanna Yuelys

 About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for the exceptional academic promise.

 Sara Scott was named among National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants Referred to Colleges. There were some 3,100 students in this category that scored in the top 3 percent of more than 160,000 Black Americans who requested consideration in the 2014 National Achievement Program when they took the qualifying test.