27 Central Bucks Students Named Merit Scholarship Finalists

DOYLESTOWN, PA — Twenty-seven students from the Central Bucks School District were named finalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

Students are judged based on their academic record, as well as participating in school and community activities and honors and awards received. The list of finalists will be released in April 2021, with winners announced in the beginning of July 2021.

About half of this year's 27 finalists from Central Bucks are expected to win a scholarship and thereby earning the title of Merit Scholar.

Here are the finalists and commended students:

Central Bucks East

Finalists

• Mason Bates
• Chayton Dalby
• Polina Guslyakova
• Grace Mahony
• Grace McDonald
• Michael Rybalkin
• Sajan Shah
• Lawrence Song
• Carina Sun
• Annie Wang
• Andrew Whinney

Commended Students

• James Baker
• Athena Basu
• Andy Chen
• Daisy Chen
• Peter Chen
• Audrey Cronin
• Hailey Dooley
• Holden Emery
• Ethan Evans
• Peter Glauber
• Juri Han
• Serena Mili
• Gabrielle Sanclimenti
• Jillian Sinton
• Michael Skulsky

Central Bucks South

Finalists

• Kevin Chen
• Kevin He
• William Huang
• Amy Liu
• Alexander McMoil
• Kevin Pan
• Andrew Parker
• Daniel Strobel

Commended Students

• Aidan Barrett
• Yvonne Burke
• Thomas Davidson
• Soojee Fee
• Zayd Hossain
• Kevin Jin
• Molly Kelch
• Jerry Lo
• Nolan Pye
• Adchayan Santhirasegarin
• Evan Sokolson
• Matthew Timofeev

Central Bucks West

Finalists

• Hafsah Ahmad
• Vidya Balaji
• Ethan Esser
• Mudit Gulgani
• Sophie Kadan
• Anirudh Nangunoori
• Vineet Nahak
• Cameron Schmidt

Commended Students

• Caroline Crecca
• Amanda George
• Riley Growney
• Julia Matthews
• Isabella Scupp
• Alison Silldorff
• Dana Zhang

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