The National Merit Scholarship Corporation last Monday named 18 Paul D. Schreiber High School seniors Commended Students for their high Preliminary SAT scores.
Emilia Charno, Joseph Clateman, Anna Cohen, Samantha D’Alonzo, Jeremy Ettlinger, Elias Feldman, Aaron Gindi, Jordan Greenblatt, Rhys Jackson, Adam Keltz, Dylan Langone, Joseph Levine, Michael Nachman, Victoria Pittard, Zachary Schor, Aaron Siff-Scherr, Brittany Taylor and Amanda Wong were all named Commended students, according to a news release from the district.
The Schreiber students recognized were among the 34,000 of the highest scores on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test taken in 2015, the release said.
The Commended Students distinction is part of the corporation’s National Scholarship Program, a five-stage program that evaluates students on their Preliminary SAT scores.
“Commended Students represent the top 5 percent of more than 1.6 million students nationwide who entered the National Merit Scholarship competition,” said Kathleen Mooney, Port Washington superintendent of schools.
According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation website, “Commended Students are named on the basis of a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year to year and is typically below the level required for participants to be named Semifinalists in their respective states.”
Commended students, the site said, do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, but can qualify for other special scholarships.
Students who advance face three more rounds of judging and are broken into groups depending on the state they live in, the website said.
The corporation awards 7,500 students scholarships, not including special scholarships.
“These 18 students are also among the top academic achievers in their class,” Mooney said. “On behalf of the district, I congratulate and thank them and wish them continued success as they culminate their academic careers here and prepare for postsecondary education.”
