14 Council Rock Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

NEWTOWN, PA — More than a dozen Council Rock students were named Wednesday as semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program competition.

The district’s semifinalists include eight students from Council Rock North and six students from Council Rock South. Four students from Newtown’s George School also qualified as semifinalists.

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The students are among 16,000 semifinalists who qualified by posting one of the state’s highest scores on the 2020 Preliminary SAT, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Semifinalists must submit an application with a recommendation from an official at their high school to earn a spot as a finalist. The corporation is set to award about 7,500 scholarships worth almost $30 million by the end of July 2022.

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Those merit scholarships include about 4,000 sponsored by colleges and universities, 2,500 sponsored by the nonprofit’s own funds and about 1,000 provided by corporations and businesses. Scholarship winners will be announced next spring.

Eighteen Council Rock students were named as semifinalists for the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Three won scholarships from the program. A George School student also won a scholarship from the 2021 program.

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2022 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists

Council Rock North
Katherine E. Daniels
Alex M. Liu
Flavien P. Moise
Michael Osmolovskiy
Maura E. Ott
Varoon Raghupathi
Simon W. Rupp
David G. Wenger

Council Rock South
Claire Cao
Ryan C. Carroll
Shivani J. Kumar
Claudia W. Lee
Michael E. Sperling
Lea Wang

George School
Anjali S. Amin
Forest J. Ho-Chen
Christian Kalb
Arshdeep K. Nagra

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