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Congratulations, National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students!

Congratulations, National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students!

Bloomfield Hills Schools has seven 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 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. To qualify as Semifinalists, over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 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. 

National Merit Semifinalists:

Grade 12 students attending Bloomfield Hills High School:

  • Lucy Dickson
  • Benjamin Saperstein

Bloomfield Hills Schools grade 12 residents attending International Academy:

  • Anna Fischer
  • Idrees Malik
  • Raj Shah
  • Nisha Singhi
  • Varun Tandon

About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2024 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2024 competition by taking the 2022 PSAT/NMSQT.

Commended Students:

Grade 12 students attending Bloomfield Hills High School:

  • Praneel Basu
  • Robert Gaines
  • Eli Goldstein
  • Nicholas Guettler
  • Elizabeth Harst
  • Henry Hutchison
  • Arun Nagappan
  • Forest Qin
  • Talia Reddy

Bloomfield Hills Schools grade 12 residents attending International Academy: 

  • Meghan Chaiyasate
  • Devi Chandran
  • Sophie Fischer
  • Ashni Kansara

Congratulations to all these students for this impressive academic achievement!