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30 from FCAHS Among Highest Scorers on PSAT

30 from FCAHS Among Highest Scorers on PSAT
Thirty Fox Chapel Area High School rising seniors are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and have met the requirements to enter the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. The students are:O mar Al-BatainehMurugan AyyanarDavid BlackAnna Delale-O’ConnorNoelle DickMaya DiPasqualeBenjamin FiedlerAlaina HersheyOwen HowellRayna HuangMoonyoung HwangEtash JhanjiPatton JohnsonAlex KimEvan KriegArnim KuchhalNathan MackeyDevon McDonaldNoah MillerZhana NeumannPierce OsterholmRachel PegherHyunoh RoCaleb ShirkDavid SorisioRohit VelankarMya WilsonCaterina WuJinLiang Zhang, and Yuqi Zhou. More than 1.3 million students took the 2023 PSAT/NMSQT and these Fox Chapel Area students are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants on that test from across the nation and have shown outstanding academic potential.

Approximately 16,000 of these highest-scoring students will be named National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists in September 2024, representing the top scorers in each state. Approximately 34,000 of the students will be commended for their performance on the PSAT/NMSQT. The Semifinalists will have the opportunity to continue in the competition for about 7,140 Merit Scholarship awards to be offered in 2025.