Thomas Adair, a senior at Northern High School, is one of the 16,000 National Merit Semifinalists this year. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, students who reach semifinalist status are “academically talented high school seniors who have the opportunity to continue to complete for National Merit Scholarships next spring,”
According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, Semifinalists “must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.”
The corporation also announced the names of 25 juniors in Calvert County public high schools who were named 2011 Commended Scholars. The press release said that these students are “recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2011 competition for National Merit Scholarships, Commended Scholars placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million high school students who entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 PSAT qualifying test.
Finally, three Calvert public school students were named 2011 National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants. These students are recognized as outstanding Black American high school students by the National Achievement Scholarship Program. They also qualify by taking the PSAT qualifying test.
The following Calvert County students were recognized:
Semifinalist
Northern High School
Thomas Adair
Commended Scholars
Calvert High School
Emily Carroll
Connie Chow
Anna Maassel
Andrew Wells
Huntingtown High School
Doreen Chan
Miranda Eldon
Elisa Frazier
Brian Haran
Nicholas Harrell
Jonathan Itschner
Annalise Kenney
Matthew Moreland
James O’Brien
Benjamin Szatanek
Evan Wingfield
Northern High School
Mary Margaret Addison
Timothy Bohannon
Edward Crouch
James Fagan
Erin Lotridge
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