Announcing 2024 National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students
Bloomfield Hills Schools has nine grade 12 students from Bloomfield Hills High School and the International Academy who have received Semifinalist status from the National Merit Scholarship Program. Approximately 16,000 students nationwide were named Semifinalists in this year’s 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. To qualify as Semifinalists, over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition, which include completing an application, having a consistently very high academic record, writing an essay, being endorsed and recommended by a school official, and taking the SAT or ACT and earning a score that confirms the PSAT/NMSQT performance.
Bloomfield Hills High School
Mark Asmar
Preston Cao
Sarah Gaines
Jinglu Jiang
Aidan Sun
International Academy students who live within BHS boundaries
Abdelrahman Ahmed
Jieming Gan
Jaxson Kaplan-Rudolph
Max Xiao
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2025 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2025 competition by taking the 2023 PSAT/NMSQT.
Bloomfield Hills High School
Charles Baker
Parus Dhillon
Owen Faust
Benjamin Guettler
Giselle Haddad
Nithya Kadakol
David LaBond
Noah Millman
Shivangi Modgil
Kyle Peterson
Grace Yang
Gabriela Yi
International Academy
Storey Huntley
Ayah Maskoun