Bridgeland HS Students Honored with National Merit Awards
Five hundred fifteen CFISD students were recognized as National Merit Scholars or College Board National Recognition Scholars and honored at a ceremony on March 20 at the Berry Center. Of those recognized, Cypress Ridge High School senior Yannick Mofor was confirmed as a finalist and 23 students from six high schools as semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Of nearly 1.5 million entrants to the National Merit Scholarship Program, approximately 50,000 qualify for recognition. Those honorees placed among the top percentage of students who entered the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
National Merit semifinalists from Bridgeland High School are Henry Hoover, Andrew Jung, Aditya Naidu, Catherine Pfaffenberger and Reid Zepeda.
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The 23 semifinalists were among the approximately 16,000 throughout the U.S. selected by officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Finalists advance to have the opportunity to win one of approximately 7,250 Merit Scholarship awards, while roughly 800 outstanding participants who are not finalists are eligible for special scholarships. Semifinalists placed among the top 1 percent and Commended Students placed among the top 3 percent of about 1.6 million students who entered the Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). CFISD has 80 total Commended Students.
Bridgeland High School’s 24 Commended students are: Nishyanth Arimanda, Jada Armstrong, Reynald Ballentos Jr., Dillon Crozier, Emily Ellis, Kory Farquhar, Alexandra Hayden, Ian Hoff, Ajay Jayasundar,Jamie Kamp, Rithvik Katikaneni,Andrew Lockett, Teresita Mecchi,Rebecca Meyers, Ethan Miller, Eva Nitsch, Aba Onumah, Macee Richardson, Jacob Roy, Nicole Smith,Isha Sridhar, Zarik Tao, Nicolas Tocchetto and Rohil Watwe.
COLLEGE BOARD NATIONAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM
To create pathways to college for underrepresented students, the College Board National Recognition Program honors and recognizes high-achieving students who are African American or Black, Hispanic American or Latinx, Indigenous, or attend school in a rural area or small town. Those scholars who excelled on their PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10 or Advanced Placement Exams are encouraged to apply for academic recognition as part of the College Board National Recognition Program.
Bridgeland’s College Board National Recognition Scholars are Matthew Adejuwon, Yusr Ahmen, Isabella Althaus, Nitish Arumugakannan,Lauren Barber, Anish Basappa, Sofia Bosquez, Erin Bynes, Eddie Carrasco, Matteo Caruso, Tomas Caruso, Chris Chavez, Jacob Chen, Raif Cobb, Kaylee Cornish, Cameron Cox, Joshua Cremer, Griffin Davis,Rayna Dejesus, Leticia Delgado,Janvi Duri, Liliana Emerson, Konner Essler, Lucas Frazao, Olivia Guerrero, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Sarah Hayes, Hanna Heinrich, Eliseo Hernandez, Frida Hernandez Villarreal, Ana Herrera, Joshua Holmes, Elizabeth Holt, Elizabeth Jacobs, Sydney Jarvis, Ajay Jayasundar, Morgan Johnson, Andrew Jung, Jamie Kamp, Abdiel Karthigan, Faizan Khan, Carly Kiphart, Johnathan Lewis, John Long, Jadia Noelle Manakalani, Daniela Manzo, Kaitlyn March, Matthew Marshall, Tristyn Mcelroy, Shloka Mehta, Sarah Mitcham, Sean Mitcham, Robert Mock, Kyle Muirhead, Sanath Muralidhara, Jonathan Nakamura, Jackson Nichols, Adachukwu Nwosu, Obumneme Nwosu, Jason O’Brien, Caroline O’Connor, Reagan Oxford, Katie Pang, Jalil Perez, Rylan Perkins, Siddarth Potta, Yaruo Qiu, Alexis Rambaran, Francisco Reyna, Mitchell Richardson, Xander Rodriguez, Grace Roffall, Rocio Saez, Jaskaran Sandhu, Joshua Sanford, Emilio Serralde, Avanishwarsai Shlipi, Dylan Smith, Nala Solomon, Sankalp Srinatha, Chiara Su, Patrick Tan, Dylan Tietjen, Azariah Turner, Dhanya Sree Vajrala, Mateo Valenzuela, William Vorhaben, Jaclyn Vuong, Noah Willows, Shannon Yiow,Arimanda, Ellis, Hayden, Hoff, Nitsch, Onumah, Ma. Richardson, Sridhar and Tao.
