Bonnie Akhavan '18, Amber Batra '18, and Zenia Choksy '18 have been named as Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program based on their 2016 PSAT scores, grades, and recommendations. From the 15,000 finalists, a selection of 7,500 Merit Scholarship winners will be made in the coming months. During Upper School Assembly on Monday, March 19, the Holton finalists were handed their certificates by Upper School Director Chris Lynch and Dean of Students Lisa Craig.
Earlier this year, Nicole Abdala-Arata '18, Talia Bartley '18, Katherine Fynes '18, Nikita Gupta '18, Madison Harris '18, Stephanie Jiang '18, Isabelle Koff '18, Taya Lowery-Williams '18, Nayana Macmillan '18, Kaitlyn Pham '18, Erica Robison '18, Jayme Slotkin '18, Caroline Smith '18, and Elinor Yeo were honored as National Merit Program Commended Students. The scores of these 14 Holton Commended Students are amongst the top 50,000 highest scores of the more than 1.6 million students who took the PSAT in 2016.
In addition, Nicole Abdala-Arata '18, Grace Daley '18, Anna Haskin '18, and Reagan Leibovitz '18 have been selected as National Hispanic Scholars in the National Hispanic Recognition Program. This program commends those students who scored in the top 2.5% among Hispanic and Latino PSAT/NMSQT test takers in the region.
Congratulations to these outstanding students!
From left to right: Mrs. Craig, Zenia Choksy '18, Bonnie Akhavan '18, Amber Batra '18, and Mr. Lynch at Assembly on March 19, 2018.