NEW ROCHELLE, NY –The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named the following students Semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program (pictured below l-r): Eli Sills, Taylor Ullrich, Oliver Hughes, Rebecca Meisler, Sammy Stone and Gabrielle Altman. Initially, 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools took the the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Those with the highest test scores (less than one percent) advanced to the semifinals.
