225 Hudson Valley Students Named 2018 Merit Semifinalists

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WHITE PLAINS, NY — Some 225 Hudson Valley residents are among 16,000 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. The scholarship organization announced the names Wednesday in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

The students named represent fewer than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

They have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship,earning the Merit Scholar® title. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts.)

Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 420 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC's goals of honoring the nation's scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

Here are the Hudson Valley Semifinalists for 2018:

ARDSLEY
Ardsley High School

  • Greenspoon, Maxwell T.

  • Kim, Melody S.

  • Mody, Anya K.

  • Park, James

  • Rosenberg, Nina S.

ARMONK
Byram Hills High School

  • Chang, Alan

  • Freedman, Joshua N.

  • Kanner, Elyse J.

  • Lucchino, Emma S.

  • McDaniels, David R.

  • Schwam, Jonah E.

  • Tissot, Nicole A.

BEACON
Beacon High School

  • Mourgues, Marisa N.

BEDFORD
Fox Lane High School

  • DaCunha, Tristan B.

  • Pansini, Isabella F.

  • Pence, Beatrice H.

  • Quinn, George S.

  • Zhang, Diane K.

BREWSTER
Brewster High School

  • Cai, Victor

BRIARCLIFF MANOR
Briarcliff High School

  • Benson, Noah

  • Cooper, Benjamin N.

  • Van Camp, Andrew G.

BRONXVILLE
Bronxville High School

  • Kochansky, Joseph B.

  • Tarazi, Anton G.

CARMEL
Carmel High School

  • Kobierowski, Cristina M.

  • Lee, Eric

  • Prophet, Emily S.

CHAPPAQUA
Horace Greeley High School

  • de Sa, Massimiliano Z.

  • Foster, Ava M.

  • Gu, Alan

  • Huang, Nathan C.

  • Johnston, Anabelle

  • Kaplan, Samuel J.

  • Liu, Kevin

  • Lohrs, Matthew J.

  • Nadel, Sophie

  • Puri, Isha

  • Renzulli, Ryan

  • Singh, Aditi

  • Sternkopf, Kathleen M.

  • Togo, Kenta

  • Zhang, Anna

  • Zhao, Aron

  • Zhu, Catherine

COLD SPRING
Haldane High School

  • Linson, Stefan N.

CORTLANDT MANOR
Walter Panas High School

  • Bhandarkar, Riti

CROSS RIVER
John Jay High School

  • Chang, Shunan J.

  • Feinstein, Thomas M.

  • Lucassen, James

  • Potash, Ruby M.

  • Roberts, Conor T.

  • Tabs, Jacob D.

  • Wilson, Abigail G.

  • Wisehart, Fayth C.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON
Croton-Harmon High School

  • Deutchman, Maya

  • Fedora, Francis G.

  • Gardiner, Sean

  • Rubin, Samantha F.

  • Tu, Sophia

DOBBS FERRY
Dobbs Ferry High School

  • Hankewycz, Zachar D.

  • Kramer, Jamie

  • Nammour, Remy O.

The Masters School

  • Accetta, Katherine E.

  • Koenigsmann, Konrad

HARRISON
Harrison High School

  • Lapkin, Eli F.

  • Wong, Caroline

HARTSDALE
Solomon Schecter School of Westchester

  • Bernstein, Alyx

  • Golub, Aidan L.

  • Mayblum, Ethan L.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON
Hastings High School

  • Dayan, David B.

  • Forman, Aaron H.

  • Lew, Emma G.

  • Meenan-Pakin, Leonard H.

  • Riesman-Tremonte, Elliot

  • van Hoogstraten, Anya

HIGHLAND FALLS
James O'Neill High School

  • Crow, Enoch

HOPEWELL JUNCTION
John Jay High School

  • Stobert, Liam A.

  • Zhou, Amy

IRVINGTON
Irvington High School

  • Chang, Ethan

  • Donoian, Braden C.

  • Wong, Chrysmine

LA GRANGEVILLE
Arlington High School

  • Goldfischer, Sabrina P.

  • Koonin, Spencer W.

  • Poon, Elena T.

LINCOLNDALE
Somers High School

  • Sanz, Noah A.

  • Taylor, Katherine

MAMARONECK
French American School Of New York

  • Salz, Mathieu D.

Mamaroneck High School

  • Anderson, James T.

  • Derby, Jackson

  • Dillon, John F.

  • Nidus, Joshua

  • Roffman, Leah M.

Rye Neck High School

  • Liebmann, Risa

  • Park, Delaney R.

  • Tisnovsky, Elena

MIDDLETOWN
Fei Tian Academy of the Arts

  • Yan, Anna

MONSEY
Bais Yaakov of Spring Valley

  • Jacobson, Elisheva

MONTROSE
Hendrick Hudson High School

  • Mahoney, Kathleen A.

  • Merchant, Haley N.

  • Moon, Rachel Y.

  • Wohlers, William S.

NANUET
Nanuet High School

  • Chavan, Sunny M.

  • Sehnawi, Kenan

  • Seo, GeonHo

NEW CITY
Clarkstown High School North

  • Albrecht, Mark

  • Kasi, Anisha M.

NEW PALTZ
New Paltz Central High School

  • Tamarchenko, Elijah

  • Taylor, Luke D.

NEW ROCHELLE
New Rochelle High School

  • Crocker, Elizabeth

  • Glickman, Joshua C.

  • Jones, Adam M.

  • Jones, Edward W.

Ursuline School

  • Koh, Naomi C.

NEW WINDSOR
Cornwall Central High School

  • Wu, Jessica F.

NEWBURGH
Newburgh Free Academy

  • Johnston, Ada D.

NYACK
Nyack High School

  • Abers, Samuel Z.

  • Jiao, Lucy G.

ORANGEBURG
Tappan Zee High School

  • Huang, Kevin

  • Oza, Palak P.

  • Shin, Yena

OSSINING
Ossining High School

  • Montgomery, Emma J.

PEARL RIVER
Pearl River High School

  • Lam, Gigi

PELHAM
Pelham Memorial High School

  • Aronson, Elise

  • Brewer, Rachel R.

  • Che, Richard

  • Glickman, Benjamin D.

  • Ronan, Liam

PLEASANTVILLE
Pleasantville High School

  • Skrzypczak, Andrew G.

POUGHKEEPSIE
Our Lady of Lourdes High School

  • DiMeglio, Christopher R.

  • Petronio, Tara F.

  • Zhu, Albert

Spackenkill High School

  • Eng-Kohn, Miah

  • Kamada, Sneha R.

  • Li, Rachel X.

  • Whalen, Zoe C.

RED HOOK
Red Hook Central High School

  • Urbin, Nicholas S.

RHINEBECK
Rhinebeck Central School

  • Ayton, James W.

RYE
Rye Country Day School

  • Chen, James Y.

  • Colin, Sarah R.

  • Esquivel Losada, Matias

  • Farrell, Joseph P.

  • Hackett, Alexander R.

  • Hotsuki, Mia

  • Mandell, Georgia A.

  • Pang, Mindy C.

  • Schnall, Jason C.

  • Shabecoff, William I.

  • Shehadeh, Nishan

  • Tallis, Nicholas

  • van Paasschen, Cecilia A.

  • Yang, Jialin

Rye High School

  • Cich, Nicholas J.

  • Eckstein, Sonia I.

  • Hsu, Cynphnie

  • Kirk, Alexandra

  • Kuster, Benjamin

  • Langer, Katherine J.

  • Lloyd, Jonathan

  • Monaghan, Thomas S.

  • Noga, Alexander J.

  • Srivastava, Pranjal

RYE BROOK
Blind Brook High School

  • Goldfeld, Matias

  • Harris, Rachel E.

  • Kibel, Adena

  • Kooverjee, Kidar

  • Otero, Agustin G.

SCARSDALE
Edgemont High School

  • Duffalo, Danielle B.

  • Gupta, Ananya

  • Gurumurthy, Ananya L.

  • Jang, Angie

  • Liu, Christopher

  • Lopreiato, Andrea J.

  • Margulis-Ohnuma, Miranda

  • Morton, Elizabeth

  • Schalkwyk, Julianna

  • Schneps, Heather

  • Sidhwani, Dhruv S.

Scarsdale High School

  • Agarwal, Anika

  • Berkson, Zachary

  • Bharara, Maya

  • Bock, Sarah M.

  • Brotman, Alex

  • Cavalluzzi, Nico A.

  • Ceske, Robert J.

  • Cherki, Noam

  • Chiang, Teckhua

  • Dhuri, Shamika S.

  • Du, Katelin

  • Lamport, Hannah S.

  • Liu, Jenny

  • McCarthy, Connor J.

  • Rutherford, Kelly A.

  • Saxon, Samuel E.

  • Schulhof, Talia P.

  • Sinyavin, Elizabeth

  • Tang, Austin R.

  • Zhang, Zongbo

SHRUB OAK
Lakeland High School

  • Bretti, Alison D.

  • Ramaswamy, Jothi M.

SLEEPY HOLLOW
Sleepy Hollow High School

  • Brown, Luca B.

SOMERS
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School

  • Curtin, Patricia M.

SUFFERN
Suffern High School

  • Chen, Michelle B.

  • Guo, Darwin

  • Holand, Ethan M.

TARRYTOWN
Hackley School

  • Braun, Annika

  • Lin, Henry K.

THIELLS
North Rockland High School

  • Kohout, James A.

WAPPINGERS FALLS
Roy C. Ketcham High School

  • Liang, Eileen K.

  • Vora, Kreena N.

WASHINGTONVILLE
Washingtonville High School

  • Thompson, Kyle B.

WEST NYACK
Clarkstown High School South

  • Dominick, Mia B.

  • Dong, Irisa J.

  • Enright, Jennifer E.

  • McKeever, Alanah M.

  • Patale, Dev P.

  • Schutzman, Michael J.

  • Wijedoru, Rivindu A.

YONKERS
Yonkers High School

  • Palav, Ameya S.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS
Yorktown High School

  • Duvvi, Roopa

  • Fink, Kevin E.

  • Laber, Jasmine J.

  • Li, Tracey

  • Lu, Eric J.

  • Onatzevitch, Ryan M.

  • Yang, Diane

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