Seven National Merit Semifinalists from Potomac Named
Seven National Merit Semifinalists from Potomac Named
Seven Upper School seniors from The Potomac School have been selected as semifinalists for 2023 National Merit Scholarships. They are Katharine Kanner-Bitetti, Abigail Park, Daniel Overdeck, Audrey Rentzepis, Kate Tuttle, Paul Witkop, and Max Zeldes.
These students were all among the top scorers in Virginia on the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which is used for initial screening. The highest-scoring students in each state are selected as semifinalists, with each state’s representation proportional to its percentage of the national total of graduating seniors, officials said in a news release.
More than 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools took the PSAT. The semifinalists, scholarship officials said, represent less than 1% of the nation’s high school seniors. Semifinalists can continue in the competition for approximately 7,140 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $28 million in total, that will be awarded next spring.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) is a non-profit organization established in 1955 to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The scholarships are underwritten by NMSC’s own funds and by around 320 business organizations and higher education institutions that share the corporation’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
Pictured (l to r) Katharine Kanner-Bitetti, Kate Tuttle, Audrey Rentzepis, Abigail Park, Paul Witkop, Daniel Overdeck, and Max Zeldes
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