41 Percent of Baldwin Seniors Honored by National Merit Program

Baldwin is proud to announce that the National Merit® Scholarship Program recognized 27 students from our senior class. For this year's National Merit Scholarship Program, 12 Baldwin students have been named Semifinalists, 13 students have been named Commended Students, two students were honored with a National African American Recognition Award and one student was honored with a National First Generation Recognition Award.

 

Congratulations to Amelia Dennis, Copper Forbes, Summer He, Ananya Kaushal, Katie McCullough, Allison Meng, Leela Rajagopal, Avani Shah-Lipman, Greyson Walko, Georgia Whamond, Brooke Woo and Mindy Zhang, who have been recognized as Semifinalists for their outstanding performance on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). Of the nearly 1.3 million high school juniors who entered the program, these 12 Baldwin students were among 16,000 seniors who qualified for recognition as Semifinalists.

 

In addition to Baldwin’s Semifinalists, congratulations go to Julia Baur, Annie Cahill, Catherine Cai, Meg Davis, Henry Dickson, Sana Goyal, Hafsa Kanchwala, Claudia Kim, Emi Maeda, Rae Mirin, Ellie Shin, Amelia Tang and Gemma Young, who have been named National Merit Commended Students, Amelia Dennis and Anya Okechukwu, who were honored with a National African American Recognition Award, and Nikoletta Kuvaeva, who was honored with a National First Generation Recognition Award.

 

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. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

 

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2025. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2025 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 382,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.