187 Hudson Valley Semifinalists Made The Cut In The 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of over 16,000 semifinalists in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program on Wednesday, including 187 from high schools in the Hudson Valley.

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,930 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.

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

Here are the Hudson Valley's semifinalists:

ARDSLEY

ARDSLEY H. S.

• Karthikeyan, Khushi
• Kraytman, Matthew
• Puliafico, Juliet

ARMONK

BYRAM HILLS H. S.

• Mauney, Claire
• Nie, Ziqi
• Olego, Amanda

BEACON

BEACON H. S.

• McKible, Oscar

BEDFORD

FOX LANE H. S.

• Dooley, Nora
• Matz, David

BRIARCLIFF MANOR

BRIARCLIFF H. S.

• Andersen, Emily
• Desawale, Meera
• Orlin, Michael
• Rinke, Noah J.
• Wu, Ava

BRONXVILLE

BRONXVILLE H. S.

• Bright, Samuel
• Kochansky, Kara
• Lekovic, Masha
• Yeon, Isabel

CENTRAL VALLEY

MONROE WOODBURY H. S.

• Saha, Prasad C.

CHAPPAQUA

HORACE GREELEY H. S.

• Battu, Mukul
• Carrillo, Isaac
• Chen, Cindy
• Chen, Wendy
• Fu, Warren
• Huang, Albert
• Kim, Joshua
• Robertson, Hadley
• Serrano, Clara
• Talla, Naveen
• Treible, Jack
• Tsao, Sydney

COLD SPRING

HALDANE H. S.

• Lunin-Pack, Seth

CROSS RIVER

JOHN JAY H. S.

• Field, Julianna

CROTON - ON - HUDSON

CROTON - HARMON H. S.

• Stok, Gabrielle

DOBBS FERRY

DOBBS FERRY H. S.

• Crowe, Angela
• Hertz-Bird, Mateus

THE MASTERS SCHOOL

• Dundas, Logan
• Kang, Eileen
• McCallum, Thomas
• Milward, James
• Pinnock, Alex
• Vargas, Lucy

EASTCHESTER

EASTCHESTER H. S.

• Lee, Tristan
• Lin, Maximilian

GOSHEN

GOSHEN H. S.

• Ghezel-Ayagh, Mehri

HARRISON

HARRISON H. S.

• Gaffin, Andrew
• Kang, Beverly

HARTSDALE

THE LEFFELL UPPER SCHOOL

• Lebwohl, Jakey

HASTINGS - ON - HUDSON

HASTINGS H. S.

• Boyd, Maxwell

HOPEWELL JUNCTION

JOHN JAY H. S.

• Eisley, Nathaniel

HYDE PARK

F. D. ROOSEVELT H. S.

• Pemberton, Roman

IRVINGTON

IRVINGTON H. S.

• Greenbarg, Joshua
• Okun, Madeleine

MAMARONECK

MAMARONECK H. S.

• Albano, Carl
• Federspiel, Leo
• Gupta, Sahil
• Hecht, Jonah
• Khan, Mustafa

RYE NECK H. S.

• Findlay, Grayson
• Russo, Julian
• Siegel, Noah

NANUET

NANUET H. S.

• Rogers, Matthew

NEW ROCHELLE

IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL

• Takaki, David

NEW ROCHELLE H. S.

• McCloskey, Ian
• Rogove, Paxton
• Seelenfreund, Cory
• Teran, Regina

URSULINE SCHOOL

• Iorgoveanu, Sophia

NEW WINDSOR

CORNWALL CENTRAL H. S.

• Barnsby, Marisa

ORANGEBURG

TAPPAN ZEE H. S.

• Han, Sean
• McKenna, Thomas
• Witek, Lukas
• Yi, Kayleen

PEARL RIVER

PEARL RIVER H. S.

• Wiley, Tess

PELHAM

PELHAM MEMORIAL H. S.

• Brummett, Arman
• McGibbon, Eloise

PLEASANTVILLE

PLEASANTVILLE H. S.

• Agabob, Sara

POUGHKEEPSIE

SPACKENKILL H. S.

• Haridevara, Ana
• Singh, Rhea

RED HOOK

RED HOOK CENTRAL H. S.

• Callaghan-Jurgens, Nora V.
• Roszko, Colton
• Solomon, Eleanor F.

RHINEBECK

RHINEBECK CENTRAL SCHOOL

• MacDonald, Beatrice
• Raitt, Alan

RYE

RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

• Arora, Arjun
• Ding, James
• Feng, Ziyi
• Gurion, Alexander
• Halvorson, Helen
• Hatstadt, Tyler
• Jiang, Claire
• Liu, Xindi
• Ren, Jason
• Ren, Steven
• Wang, Jane
• Williams, Emily
• Zhang, Selena
• Zhou, Leon

RYE H. S.

• Andikyan, Svetlana
• Becker, Pedro
• Crozier, Ryan
• Page, Jackson
• Thigpen, Reid
• Wang, Grace

SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD

• Abecasis, Emma Cristina

RYE BROOK

BLIND BROOK H. S.

• Mohapatra, Amrit
• Riley, Simon
• Weintraub, Abigail
• Zheng, Jocelyn

SCARSDALE

EDGEMONT H. S.

• Chan, Leah
• Coulthard, Tamsin
• Fowler, Seren
• Ho, Maxwell
• Im, Ryan
• Karthik, Siddanth
• Ke, Serena
• Kumar, Sophia
• Lee, Lauren
• Li, Eleanor
• Ma, Dylan
• Manasse, Hannah
• Mandava, Vedika
• Margulis-Ohnuma, Madeline
• Patel, Rohan
• Qu, Megan
• Roy, Brinda
• Setness, Kiera
• Shah, Ananya
• Sun, Nia
• Xie, Sophie

SCARSDALE H. S.

• Coulson, Hana
• DeDianous, Ryan
• Dyakin, Victor
• Friedland, Jacob
• Fung, Hayden
• Hubell, Kate
• Kuo, Derrick
• Lin, Peter
• Liu, Joyce
• Mehta, Anish
• Pantchev, Daniel
• Pettinelli, Leonardo
• Polak, Mateo
• Ryu, Jalyn
• Sharp, Alexander
• Simpson, Katherine
• Sriram, Neil
• Tieng, Gavin
• Trelles, Manuel
• Trelles, Santiago
• Wang, Adrian
• Wu, Grace
• Xiao, Benjamin
• Xie, Isabel
• Xie, Sonja
• Yang, Alina
• Yanovsky, Sergey
• Zhang, ShuYue
• Zhu, Daniel

SHRUB OAK

LAKELAND H. S.

• Kowatch, Sean N.
• Tang, Justine J.

SLEEPY HOLLOW

SLEEPY HOLLOW H. S.

• Zuba, Emmeline

SUFFERN

SUFFERN H. S.

• Yin, Joy

TARRYTOWN

HACKLEY SCHOOL

• Ahn, Isaac
• Deng, Yihan
• Huang, Sophie
• Lee, Mason
• Shah, Nikhil
• Suttiratana, Elan
• Yang, Juno

THORNWOOD

WESTLAKE H. S.

• Varadi, Jozsef

WARWICK

WARWICK VALLEY H. S.

• Curtis, James

WASHINGTONVILLE

WASHINGTONVILLE H. S.

• Korba, Caroline Q.

WEST NYACK

CLARKSTOWN H. S. SOUTH

• Chen, Jason J.
• Hou, Aryana
• Loock, Samantha A.
• Pusuluri, Ishaan
• Thomas, Ryan
• Zhang, Yuemeng

WHITE PLAINS

WHITE PLAINS H. S.

• Lieber, Eliana R.

YONKERS

YONKERS H. S.

• Hwangbo, Kium
• Truax, Jack

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS

YORKTOWN H. S.

• Bollimpalli, Akhil S.
• Desai, Jashvi N.
• Falk, Jack E.
• Nair, Siddharth S.
• Ropke, Connor P.