22 Andover, Philips Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

ANDOVER, MA — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has selected 16,000 students from across the country as semifinalists in the 2022 program, including 22 from Andover High School and Phillips Academy.

At the beginning of each school year, the NMSC reveals the students who will go on to compete for scholarships in the spring. About 7,500 of the original 16,000 semifinalists win scholarships.

The semifinalist round is determined by the results of the pre-SAT tests taken by about 1.5 million high school juniors nationwide during the previous school year. The list of semifinalists will be winnowed down to about 15,000 by early 2022 and about half of those will win scholarhsips. Hundreds of students from Massachusetts were selected in the semifinalist round.

The scholarships awarded in the spring range in value, with the highest at $2,500.

The five Andover High School semifinalists are:

• Owen R. Chanthaboun
• Owen J. Chen
• Larry K. Liu
• Jade P. Nair
• Jennie Y. Wang

The Phillips Academy semifinalists are:

• Ingrid S. Appen
• Natalie Chen
• Chase Cueto
• Max. S Fang
• Jessica M. He
• Mycreta K. Johnston
• Lauren N. Lee
• Guyatri Rajan
• Charlotte R. Rediker
• Case L. Rosenfelt
• Ablah Maryam Siddiq
• Daniela M. Valasquez
• Eshwar Venkataswamy
• Charlotte D. Whitehurst
• Christine Yang
• William H. Yue
• Elizabeth Zhang