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17 Belmont Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation this week announced semifinalists for 2021 scholarships, including hundreds in Massachusetts.

BELMONT, MA — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has selected 16,000 students from across the country as semifinalists in the 2021 program, including 17 from Belmont.

At the beginning of each school year, the NMSC reveals the students who will go on to compete for scholarships in the spring. About 7,600 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 2021, and those students will submit applications to get scholarships. Hundreds of students from Massachusetts were selected in the semifinalist round.

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

The 17 Belmont semifinalists are as follows:

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Belmont High School

  • Isabel T. Burger
  • Katarina L. Chen
  • Charlotte E. Conroy
  • Alexander W. Fick
  • Sarah A. Firth
  • David A. Jen
  • Edward P. Lee
  • Alicia A. Lugovskoy
  • William J. Mann
  • Timothy J. Minicozzi
  • Jessica D. Peng
  • Jason Tang
  • Howell Xia
  • Yao Xiao

Belmont Hill School

  • Aaron W. Belluck
  • Sreetej Digumarthi
  • Max D. Hall

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