9 Loomis Chaffee Students National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

WINDSOR, CT — Nine students from the Loomis Chaffee School are among more than 16,000 semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.

Loomis Chaffee students attaining semifinalist status are Andrew Addo, Bryan Chung, Artem Gagushin, Michaela Howe, Daniel Jiang, Kenneth Lee, Lucia Zhang, Oliver Zhang and Eric Zhou.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.