Congrats to Sachem East’s Sophie Hannigan and Alice Tsai on being named National Merit semifinalists!
The Sachem East seniors are among 16,000 students nationwide selected for this nomination by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation out of more than 1.5 million entrants. They now have the chance to move into a smaller pool of diligent students who can win some significant scholarship money. Students will be notified in the spring if they are winners.
Students are entered based on their 2015 SAT/National Merit qualifying test scores. Semifinalists represent the best of the best of high school scholars and roughly less than one percent of high school seniors in the United States.