Three Germantown High School students Krithi Gopinath, Sophia Cramer, and Holly Croke were recently named semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program.
High School juniors entered the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
From the approximately 16,000 national semifinalists, about 15,000 advance to the finalist level. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group and will be announced beginning in April and concluding in July.