Congratulations to the Bishop O'Connell seniors who were recently recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Grace Halford (pictured front row, center) was named a Semifinalist and 11 other O'Connell students were named Commended Students based on their performance on the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. As a Semifinalist, Grace will have the opportunity to compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $33 million in the 62nd National Merit Scholarship Program.
The Commended Students placed among the top five percent of the more than 1.6 million students nationwide who took the 2015 PSAT/NMSQT. This year's Commended Students from O'Connell include:
Harold Amoss
Luke Brinkmann
Caroline Jones
John Mai
Katherine Mendell
Gabriel Rizk
Miranda Smith
John Svoboda
Agatha Tatang
Brooke Tran
Eleanor Vaughn