Sammamish schools have 9 National Merit finalists
February 23, 2011
By Administrator
Nine Sammamish students recently learned they are in the running to receive National Merit Scholarships. They are among 15,000 high schoolers in the nation who were announced as finalists for the scholarship competition.
Five Skyline students made the cut: Saumya Copparam, Ben Huang, Dipanwita Maulik, Praveen Puvvadi, and James Richardson.
Ben Boyle, Matt Mahan and Michael Orehek, all Eastside Catholic students, are finalists, too. And from Eastlake, Nicholas Pitt joined the ranks from Sammamish.
The nine were selected from the 16,000 students who scored in the top 1 percent in the nation on the PSAT. Each student had to submit letters of recommendation, an essay, proof of a rigorous course load and a list of extra-curricular activities.
Eastside Catholic also had four National Merit Commended Scholars (Jake Gober, Kyle Larson, Miles Linde, and Nicholas Mahan) who scored in the top 5 percent nationally on the PSAT.
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