Principal Dr. Stephen Covert made the following announcement over the intercom this morning:
Many students take the PSAT in the fall of their junior year. What a lot of students may not notice is the full name of the test is PSAT/NMSQT, or Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Thus, the PSAT is not just good practice for your SATs. It’s also the first step in becoming a National Merit Finalist, and hopefully, earning a scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).
Each year, about 1.6 million students take the PSAT. Of the juniors who take the exam, about 16,000 earn scores that qualify them as Semi-Finalists (that’s around 1%). This group is narrowed down to 15,000, who become Finalists. Of this group, about 7,500 are awarded scholarships that can be renewed each year they’re in college.
We have one of the highest numbers of National Merit Finalists of any school in the United
States, and we are proud of the following students continuing the Pine View Tradition of
Excellence.
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 National Merit Finalists!
Summer Bossman
Sarah Catalano
Matthew Coovert
Nelson Creed
Abraham Daoud
Cole Firlie
Laura Gayre
Andrew Goodson
Connor Lafo
Jimmy Liu
Leila MacKenzie
Elizabeth McBride
Demetri Pappas
Ricardo Prado Cunha
Sonica Prakash
Siddhartha Reddy
Jack Ries
Lucas Rudloff
Edward Shen
Richard Siwicki
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