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Edison, Metuchen Students Named 2025 National Merit Semifinalists
The students have a chance to earn a National Merit Scholarship and will compete with seniors from across the country.
EDISON, NJ — High school students from Edison and Metuchen have been named semi-finalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. The students are from public and private schools.
The semi-finalists were announced on Wednesday and include around 16,000 high-school seniors from across the country, who will now compete for the scholarships that will be offered next spring.
About 95 percent of the semi-finalists will be named as finalists for the scholarship. Of those finalists, about half will win a scholarship, the National Merit Scholarship Program said.
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Metuchen students named as semi-finalists are:
METUCHEN HIGH SCHOOL
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- Audrey Z. Feng
- Ethan Geary
- Jackson C. Gould
- Suhani G. Modha
- Ripley Wong
ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL
- Elikem Amenuvor
- Ronan Pell
Edison students named semi-finalists are:
EDISON ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL
- Archisa Arora
- Sounak Bagchi
- Emma Contursi
- Ishaan Ghosh
- Saniya Grover
- Lalith Gundla
- Amruta Jayaganesh
- Priyadarshan Kabra
- Mahanth Komuravelli
- Sargam Mondal
- Fnu Prince
- Dakshata Ravinder
- Sanjay Ravishankar
- Suhani Sengupta
- Satvika Singh
- Abhishek Terala
EDISON HIGH SCHOOL
- Avaneesh Giri
- Mithil A. Mishra
JOHN P. STEVENS HIGH SCHOOL
- Aashna Ashokchari
- Ishaan Brahma
- Tanishka Dhake
- Inaya Khandker
- Pragna Kurra
- Lucia Leung
- Mahi Mahitcha
- Tanish Mittal
- Krithika Parthasarathy
- Anish Patel
- Tanush Patil
- Urja Saha
- Mihir Tadeparti
More than 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship QualifyingTest, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
To become a Finalist, the semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2025 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July.
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