Congratulations to Fort Zumwalt School District’s 2024 National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists. These 12 Fort Zumwalt seniors are among the top scorers on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) taken by more than 1 million high school juniors at more than 22,000 high schools across the nation. The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of high school students and qualify to continue in the competition. Next spring, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation will award about $35 million to roughly 8,000 graduating high school seniors.
FZ National Merit Semi-Finalists are: Sicheng Chen, FZW; Danielle Dang, FZS; Aidan Hanratty, FZW; Tyler Kuehn, FZW; Richard Li, FZS; Carter Muehling, FZS; Eden Niedergeses, FZS; Samrita Sivasankar, FZW; Gabriel Ostrander, FZE; Preston Pattillo, FZN; Brody Van Wave, FZN; and Ethan Wilmes, FZE.
Congratulations as well to our National Merit Commended Scholars. These nine Fort Zumwalt seniors were recognized as among the top 5 percent of the students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) last spring.
National Merit Commended Scholars are: Samanvitha Gaddhi, FZW; Eric Liesman, FZS; Cathy Millangue, FZW; Jaineel Patel, FZW; Garrett Ray, FZW; Nick Rittman, FZW; Luke Schmidtberger, FZW; Aiden Spavale, FZE; Talia Wright, FZS