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168 Merit Semifinalists 2024 Announced In The Hudson Valley

Part of a national group representing less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, they can compete for $26 million in scholarships.

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HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of over 16,000 semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program Wednesday, including 168 from high schools in the Hudson Valley.

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,250 National Merit Scholarships worth $26 million that will be offered next spring.

About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

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The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

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RONDOUT VALLEY H. S.
  • Lever, Samuel
  • Weber, Anna C.

Ardsley

ARDSLEY H. S.
  • Blank, Leo
  • Brahmbhatt, Aarjav
  • Kataria, Anhad

Armonk

BYRAM HILLS H. S.
  • Harris, Zoe
  • Levy, Andrew
  • Long, Olivia
  • Metsch, Sarina
  • Stein, Aaron

Bedford

FOX LANE H. S.
  • Cohen, Zachary R.
  • Wierzchowski, Gabriel J.

Briarcliff Manor

BRIARCLIFF H. S.
  • Isbell, Lauren N.
  • Kurtis, Dov L.
  • Lynch, Catherine C.
  • Raina, Riya
  • Salvati, Ella R.
  • Schwartz, Theodore W.
  • Tanios, Sophie E.
  • Xu, Serena R.

Carmel

CARMEL H. S.
  • Galli, Stephen

Central Valley

MONROE WOODBURY H. S.
  • Cooper, Olivia
  • Tomaras, Dorian

Chappaqua

HORACE GREELEY H. S.
  • Cai, Jason
  • Cao, Jiachen
  • Concha, Sofia
  • Dhanawade, Ananya
  • Jankovic, Sara
  • Liang, Xiaochuan
  • Menon, Arjun
  • Pang, Andrew
  • Peterson, Charles
  • Saland, Lucas
  • Wei, Jed
  • Xiu, Elizabeth

Cold Spring

HALDANE H. S.
  • Schwarz, Julian
  • Spiegel, Dana

Cortlandt

WALTER PANAS H. S.
  • Jean-Louis, Tova

Cross River

JOHN JAY H. S.
  • Harris, William
  • Omin, Austin
  • Vigil, Nina

Dobbs Ferry

THE MASTERS SCHOOL
  • Camacho, Lucas
  • Lovitt, Max
  • Wang, Sien

Eastchester

EASTCHESTER H. S.
  • Badlyans, Ava

Florida

S. S. SEWARD INSTITUTE
  • Vogt, Taylor

Harrison

HARRISON H. S.
  • Blackman, Julianna
  • Burghouts, Ezra

Hartsdale

THE LEFFELL SCHOOL
  • Bilenker, Evan

Hastings-on-Hudson

HASTINGS H. S.
  • Belasco, Frieda E.
  • Cho, Charlotte L.
  • Emtage, Benjamin J.
  • Garson, Natalie R.
  • Zimmerman, Jasper C.

Hopewell Junction

JOHN JAY H. S.
  • Pillai, Nash

Irvington

IRVINGTON H. S.
  • Kim, Tane
  • Mitchell, Luke
  • Sack, Oliver

LaGrangeville

ARLINGTON H. S.
  • Bonthu, Yashaswini

Lincolndale

SOMERS H. S.
  • Armstrong, Luke A.
  • Gordon, Emma D.

Mamaroneck

MAMARONECK H. S.
  • Anderson, Sally
  • Lord, Natalie
  • McCance, Daniel
  • RYE NECK H. S.
  • Du, Terence
  • Raftery, Bram
  • Schube, Aritz

Monsey

BAIS YAAKOV OF SPRING VALLEY
  • Jacobson, Tamar

Montgomery

VALLEY CENTRAL H. S.
  • Walsh, Connor

New City

CLARKSTOWN H. S. NORTH
  • Altman, Mark
  • Jaynes, Andrew
  • Xu, Angela

New Rochelle

IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL
  • Curry, John
NEW ROCHELLE H. S.
  • Adams, Elena
  • Aggarwal, Eva
  • Brooks, Nola
  • Krasner, Anderson
  • Todd, Jasper
SALESIAN H. S.
  • Ghose, Nikhil
  • ORANGEBURG
  • TAPPAN ZEE H. S.
  • Epstein, Owen

Pelham

PELHAM MEMORIAL H. S.
  • Herzog, Alexandra
  • Johnson, Charles
  • Rodriguez, Daniel
  • Vitale, Cararose

Pleasantville

PLEASANTVILLE H. S.
  • Neilson-Papish, Zachary

Poughkeepsie

OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL
  • Foulk, Johanna
OUR LADY OF LOURDES H. S.
  • Garb, Noah
  • O'Donnell, Erin
SPACKENKILL H. S.
  • Victor, Max

Red Hook

RED HOOK CENTRAL H. S.
  • Sakamoto-Hata, Liam B.

Rye

RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Arora, Rahul
  • Chu, Alyssa
  • D'Amico, Zachary
  • Ding, Jaymin
  • Emmet, Christopher
  • Grover, Shaurya
  • Israel, Ariel
  • Jolicoeur, Isabella
  • Kroin, Julia
  • Rivas, Alexander
  • Roth, Leo
  • Schales, Ethan
  • Sisitsky, Kyle R.
  • Steyn, Leah
  • Wolf, Jonathan
RYE H. S.
  • Chen, Bill
  • Chun, Andrew
  • Gordon, Alexander
  • Gounden-Kobes, Kiran
  • Kamander, Andrea
  • Kloepfer, Haley
  • O'Donnell, Timothy
  • Rotondo, Juliet

Scarsdale

EDGEMONT H. S.
  • Gipstein, Evelyn
  • Hu, Justin
  • Hu, Sarah
  • Hwang, Nathaniel
  • Kabakov, Alexandra
  • Kim, Daniel
  • Musti, Rithvik
  • Mynn, Genebelle
  • Zeitz, Matthew
  • Zhou, Alexander
SCARSDALE H. S.
  • Davies, Matan
  • Deng, Kelly
  • El Moselhy, Kamila
  • Fischman, Henry
  • Gibney, Eva
  • Goyal, Arya
  • Greenberg, Zoe
  • Kempe, Alexander
  • Liu, Andrew
  • Liu, Chloe
  • Liu, Eric
  • Mishra, William
  • Qing, Kai
  • Ren, Kenneth
  • Rublin, Adam
  • Sanan, Om
  • Schwartz, Jennifer
  • Schwartz, Lauren
  • Tabak, Eli
  • Tong, Raymond
  • Weintrob, Noah
  • Wu, Sophia
  • Xin, Thomas

Sleepy Hollow

SLEEPY HOLLOW H. S.
  • Bloom, Brenna R.
  • Santocki, Jocelin
  • Utsumi, Ayaka

Somers

JOHN F. KENNEDY CATHOLIC H. S.
  • Salvatore, Lucia
  • Urbanowicz, John

Suffern

SUFFERN H. S.
  • Lin, Leeshone
  • Rao, Andrew

Tarrytown

HACKLEY SCHOOL
  • Booth, Alexander
  • Cheng, Alexander
  • Diaz-Alcantara, Gabrielle
  • Haider, Sikander
  • Lee, Joshua
  • Malik, Vivek
  • Mulosmani, Trashgim

Valhalla

VALHALLA H. S.
  • Huang, Heming
  • Shyam, Arvind I.

Wallkill

WALLKILL H. S.
  • Craypo, Josh

Wappingers Falls

ROY C. KETCHAM H. S.
  • Williams, Charlotte

Warwick

WARWICK VALLEY H. S.
  • Grundfast, Evan

West Nyack

CLARKSTOWN H. S. SOUTH
  • Varghese, Steven
  • Xie, Anna

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