Fifteen Baldwin Seniors Honored by National Merit Program

Baldwin is proud to announce that 15 students from its senior class have been recognized by the National Merit® Scholarship Program. Nine Baldwin students have been named Semifinalists and six students have been named Commended Students in the 65th annual National Merit® Scholarship Program.

Sophie Feng, Annie Lin, Abby Shen, Lilly Siderowf, Saachi Singh, Mary Wu, Emily Xiong, Katherine Yang and Melody Yu have been recognized as Semifinalists for their outstanding performance on the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). Of the nearly 1.6 million high school juniors who entered the program, these nine Baldwin students were among 16,000 seniors who qualified for recognition as Semifinalists.

Semifinalists have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships, worth about $31 million that will be offered next spring. About 90 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. Finalists will be selected based on their skills, accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

In addition to Baldwin’s Semifinalists, Kit Conklin, Jennifer Liu, Ava Rosenberger, Meghna Sreedhar, Lisa Wang and Sydney Zilch have been named National Merit Commended Students by the 2020 National Merit Scholarship program.