Congratulations to Montgomery High School's 2023 National Merit Scholarship Commended Students

Posted March 3, 2023

Montgomery High School (MHS) Director of Student Academic and Counseling Services Corie Gaylord announced the names of 67 MHS students who have been named 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students. She read the names at the board of education meeting on February 28.

Fourteen of the commended students attended the school board meeting, and were congratulated by Principal Heather Beatty-Pino; Board President Zelda Spence-Wallace; Superintendent Mary E. McLoughlin; and Director of Guidance Corie Gaylord.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. Approximately 1.5 million high school students enter the program each year.

More than two-thirds (about 34,000) of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT receive Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended Students are named based on a nationally applied selection index score that may vary from year to year and is typically below the level required for participants to be named semifinalists in their respective states. Although Commended Students do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some of these students do become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.

Montgomery High School Commended Scholars:

1. Ahmed, Hibba

2. Annem, Sai Bhavya

3. Arnold, Daedalus

4. Balakrishnan, Ajay

5. Balamurali, Magathi

6. Basak, Ashton

7. Bommanpatti Kannan, Tejasumitha

8. Chandrashekaran, Preksha

9. Chang, Audrey

10. Chang, Kevin

11. Chaturvedi, Pranav

12. Crook, Amy

13. Crook, Naomi

14. Dambeck, Josephine

15. Fan, Fiona

16. Farooq, Areeb

17. Freitor, Mikhaela

18. Ghanima, Omar

19. Goel, Arnay

20. Gu, Jennifer

21. Gupta, Noyonika

22. Gupta, Sarah

23. Harikrishnan, Sanjeev

24. Jha, Tanish

25. Jia, Elizabeth

26. Joshi, Snigdha

27. Kapoor, Eshaan

28. Kim, Tyler

29. Kumaran, Aadhavan

30. Lee, Caleb

31. Lee, Sandra

32. Li, Joyce

33. Liang-Gilman, Henry

34. Lim, Andrew

35. Liu, Edward

36. Liu, Jiaying

37. Ma, Kimberly

38. Mani, Atulya

39. Mao, Amy

40. Miao, Annie

41. Mitchell, Rachel

42. Molakaseema, Sejal

43. Nerurkar, Shreyas

44. Parhar, Prineet

45. Paul, Reyanna

46. Peter, Virankha

47. Pujara, Abhishek

48. Qiu, Jeffrey

49. Ren, Grace

50. Rustagi, Saksham

51. Sarafudinov, Anton

52. Shaikh, Aahil

53. Shaikh, Humza

54. Shen, Daniel

55. Shou, Mia

56. Tian, Ryan

57. Toedtman, Madden

58. Uraguchi, Tasuku

59. Vemireddy, Rishith

60. Wang, Brian

61. Wang, Sophie

62. Wen, Zachary

63. Yadav, Saachi

64. Youm, Emily

65. Zhai, Anthony

66. Zhang, William

67. Zhao, Caroline

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