Six NRHS Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

NEW ROCHELLE, NY –The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named the following students Semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program (pictured below l-r): Eli Sills, Taylor Ullrich, Oliver Hughes, Rebecca Meisler, Sammy Stone and Gabrielle Altman.  Initially, 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools took the the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Those with the highest test scores (less than one percent) advanced to the semifinals.