51 RI Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has selected 16,000 students from across the country as semifinalists in the 2021 program, including 51 from Rhode Island.

At the beginning of each school year, the NMSC reveals the students who will go on to compete for scholarships in the spring. About 7,600 of the original 16,000 semifinalists win scholarships.

The semifinalist round is determined by the results of the pre-SAT tests taken by about 1.5 million high school juniors nationwide during the previous school year. The list of semifinalists will be winnowed down to about 15,000 by early 2021, and those students will submit applications to get scholarships.

The scholarships awarded in the spring range in value, with the highest at $2,500.

Rhode Island's semifinalists are listed below, by school.

Barrington High School

• Gorman, Kelly R.
• Lamb, Eden R.
• Liang, Jessica K.
• Mohammadi, Aryana
• Mohlman, Trevor M.
• Salomon, Mitchell F.
• Tian, Venus Y.
• Wang, Joshua Y.

Coventry High School

• Marszalek, Riley C.
• Tsang, Alexander C.

Cranston High School East

• Hardy, William K.

Cranston High School West

• Alam, Samah M.
• Latzman, Samuel J.

Blackstone Valley Prep

• Ferretti, Andrew E.

Cumberland High School

• Johnson, Brendan M.

East Greenwich High School

• Caterson, Jessica N.
• Kalinsky, Jordan R.
• Patti, Sophia R.

Rocky Hill Country Day School

• Johnson, Troy E.

East Providence High School

• Buchta, Sarasvati R.

St. George's School

• Sharma, Nikhil

Narragansett High School

• Simone, Andrew J.

North Kingstown High School

• Bard, Andrew D
• Casey, Nathan C.
• Gagnon, Jacob R.
• Totten, Julia N.
• Ventura, Daniel E.

North Providence High School

• Avelino, Olivia

Portsmouth High School

• Leary, Sabrina M.

Moses Brown School

• Duggirala, Vaibhav
• Duggirala, Vishwas
• Kamath, Vibha M.
• Masse, Kevin L.
• Younkin, Emily F.

Classical High School

• Milonas-Milligan, William
• Taylor, Luke F.

La Salle Academy

• Eberson, Jacob S.

The Wheeler School

• Allio, Declan M.
• Cornelissen, Anna B.
• Josefowicz, Jane J.
• Mehta, Darshan D.
• Suchman, Isaiah T.
• Tang, Eric W.
• Xia, William

St. Mary Academy Bay View

• Newbury, Brooke L.

The Prout School

• Conforti, Katherine R.
• Garman, Michael J.
• Graybill, Mary E.
• Hixon, Janice B.

Bishop Hendricken High School

• Relyea, Christopher
• Wood, Spencer

Patch editor Neal McNamara contributed to this report.