Thirty-seven seniors in the Great Neck Public Schools have been named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. To achieve this honor, they placed among the top five percent of the more than 1.5 million juniors who took the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Each Commended Student received a letter of commendation in recognition of exceptional academic promise.
“The young men and women named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success. They represent a valuable national resource,” said a NMSP spokesperson.
North High’s Commended Students are: Daniel Bar-Lavi, Nicole Biton, Tyler Bloom, Arabelle Chafe, Yinny Chan, Daniel Engelson, Richard Feder, Juliet Freudman, Kamla Kumar, Jessica Nassimi, Allison Rosenbaum, Alexander Schneidman, Hally Silberg, Paula Tartell, Tina Watson, and Terry Wei.
South High’s Commended Students are: Justin Chang, Matthew Chang, Christine Chung, Alanna Fichtel, Audrey Fok, Evangeline Giannopoulos, Sharon Glick, Jarett Gross, Rachel Hand, Victoria Hsiao, Gary Huang, Sam Huang, Annie Jiang, Skyler Kanfer, Kevin Ko, Prasanth Kurup, Margot Metz, Daniel Rosenfeld, Ariel Serruya, Jay Shah, and Brian Song.
