National Merit Semi-Finalists named from Winnetka, Glenview, Northbrook, Evanston, Skokie schools
Several North Shore high school seniors have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.
The students are among more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. They will continue in the competition for more than 6,800 scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.
To qualify, more than 1.3 million juniors in 21,000 high schools took the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists represent less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors, the corporation said. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
The semil-finalists are as followed, listed by the school’s location.
Evanston
Beacon Academy:
- Pollack, Lillian
- Scheidt, Aidan
- Smith, Leo
Evanston Township High School:
- Abraham, Hershel
- Breen, Una
- Coustan, Eli
- Eaton-Strong, Cameron
- Green, Daniel
- Matsis, Maxwell
- O’Connor, Daniel
- Peng, Isaac
- Schober, Katherine
- Shaman, Leah
- Stracks, Harrison
- Tu, Patrick
- Walker, Philippa
- Watson, Andrew
- Zalmezak, William
- Zehr, Kathryn
Roycemore Academy:
- Maruszewski, Marko
Glenview
Glenbrook South High School:
- Emerson, Matthew
- Finn, Grace
- Jiang, Kaitlyn
- Kurt, Kiera
- Raina, Shuja
Northbrook
Glenbrook North High School:
- Bilous, Daniel B.
- Cheon, Christine J.
- Drakopoulos, William
- Goldman, Daniel K.
- Kahn, Joshua T.
- Khurana, Abhimanyu
- Margulis, Mia E.
- Park, Ethan J.
- Sarmiento, Martin
- Vishnevskiy, Samuel J.
- Ye, Songquing
- Zhao, Vivian W.
Homeschool/Online School
- Skinner, Lucy
Skokie
Ida Crown Jewish Academy
- Polsky, Levi
Niles North High School
- Chung, Nathan L.
- Jaminski, Jack J.
- Shah, Dev M.
- Sorkin, Ella G.
Niles West High School
- Mui, Anthony C.
- Nguyen, Jonathan H.
- Thompson, Andrew J.
Wilmette
Loyola Academy
- Ehlert, John P.
- Gonzalez, Martin Raphael C.
- Koh, Gustav Y.
- Santiago, Ethan
- Villacarlos, Seiichi R.
Winnetka
New Trier Township High School
- Arrowsmith, Eric
- Cardonick, Brett
- Chong, Garrett
- Crawford, Chase
- Crawford, Mattelyn
- Cui, Franklin
- Deng, Henry
- Gibbard, Mark
- Gurevich, Adam
- Han, Jacob
- Heftman, Nathan
- Hipschen, Henry
- Kaczmarek, Theodore
- Karabatsos, Alexander
- Karr, William
- Lee, Doyun
- Memik, Ed
- Morris, Kaci
- Myerholtz, Alexander
- Niknam, Bardiya
- Organ, David
- Paintal, Ranjit
- Sanderson, Neil
- Scott, Sean
- Shin, William
- Tanner, Lillian
- Thakrar, Shabnam
- Therivel, Gabriella
- Updegraff, Simon
- Walther, John
- Weiss, Roan
- Winkler, Rebecca
- Wu, Benjamin
- Zivin, Sasha
Michelle Mullins contributed to this article.