BHS students are National Merit Semifinalists
Published 12:42 pm Saturday, October 15, 2016
Five Bainbridge High School seniors have been declared National Merit Semifinalists.
Clio Batali, Maxwell Brown, Hudson Gilmore, James Muir and Jonathan Owen ranked in the top 0.5 percent among Washington students taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test. Now, they have the chance to become finalists and compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million, which will be announced next spring.
Out of 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance to the finalist level. Selections, based on extracurricular participation, leadership abilities and received honors, will be announced in February.
Approximately 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program.
BHS also had 15 seniors named National Merit Commended Students: Thomas Allen, Keaton Blair, Adrien Chaussabel, Kate Crandell, William de Rubertis, Ethan Glaze, William Gleason, Isabelle Haines, Skyler Hallinan, Alexander Larson-Freeman, Michaela Leung, Mason Ogden, Alexander Pickett, Daniel Queen and Elizabeth Rolfes.
National Merit Commended Students, on average, score in the top 3 percent. They are not eligible for National Merit scholarships.
NMSC is a not-for profit organization that was established in 1955. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and approximately 420 business organizations and higher education institutions.
