12 Named National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to the following 12 seniors named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program: Alexander Amin, Larry Fulton, Robert Gray, Emily Hedlund, Maddie Hengst, Alison Jin, James Li, Maureen Rakovec, Monica Sass, Matthew Thompson, Jonathan Vexler, and Jack Weisman.

These students join a long tradition of Merit Scholar excellence and earn Hawken the distinction of the highest number of National Merit Semifinalists amongst Cleveland area peer schools for the past 10 years.

Congratulations also to seniors  Alexandria Ashley, Daniela Brkic, Patrick Connors, Dmitriy Estrin, Timothy Foster, Kush Khosla, Samaresh Rao and Daniel Weiss for being named Commended Students in the National Merit Scholarship Program

Hawken's combined number of 12 semifinalists and 8 commended students represents an impressive 22% of the Class of 2015.

In addition, Larry Fulton was named a Semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Competition, a program that recognizes outstanding Black American high school students and is awarded to only 1,600 high school seniors nationwide. Jonathan Vexler received an additional honor of being named a National Hispanic Recognition Scholar.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. This year, about 1.4 million students entered the competition as juniors when they took the Preliminary SAT test. The semifinalists represent an elite group that makes up less than 1 percent of high school seniors nationally and includes the highest scoring test takers in each state.

Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program have the opportunity to continue in the competition for 7,600 scholarships worth approximately 33 million dollars.
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