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September 17, 2009

On Sept. 16, the counseling department released the names of 34 National Merit Semifinalists.

MERITING ATTENTION: CHS students who earned National Merit Semifinalist status are recognized during a reception during SRT on Sept. 22. Carmel had 34 semifinalists this year. According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which organizes the program, roughly 16,000 of the 1.5 million students who take the PSAT/NMSQT test each year get recognized as Semifinalists. KAITLYN LAMPE / PHOTO

Those who qualified were seniors Bradley Adams, Steven Brisley, Griffin Brunk, Timothy Chai, Susie Chen, Kimberly Collins, Shataakshi Dube, Kathleen Fenerty, Justin Groot, Aaron Henry, Michelle Hu, Sunny Huang, Mike Jiang, Nicholas Johnson, Angela Ma, Caroline Marshall, Gina McGauley, Ansel Nalin, Dianya Pu, Shawn Qian, Min Qiao, Meghan Reidy, Vincent Reuter, Alice Shen, Stephen Skolnick, Stephen Spence, Jimmy Sun, Sergei Uversky, Vikas Vavilala, Michael Wang, Reid Watson, Zoe Yan, Michelle Yun and David Zhang.

Carmel High School had the most semifinalists from any high school in the state, which has been the trend for the past few years.

Those who qualify for National Merit Finalist standings will also receive a $2,500 scholarship, along with various other scholarships from individual schools.

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