Syosset Central School District is proud to announce that 21 Syosset High School students have been named Semifinalists in the 70^th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The students qualified for this distinction by scoring among the highest in the state on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

Congratulations to seniors Derek Chen, Frank He, Marcus Hoshino, Shan Hsieh, Connor Jin, Katherine Li, Simonne Lim, Jasmine Liu, Yuyang Liu, Sunay Malhotra, Raheel Nabi, Lance Phung, Michael Ren, Corey Schack, Krishiv Shah, Jaysukh Singh, Samuel Wang, Zhaotang Wang, Joann Woo, Katherine Yi, and Winston Zhou.

They are among the approximately 16,000 high school students nationwide who were named Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), representing less than one percent of all U.S. high school seniors.

The Semifinalists have qualified to compete for 6,870 National Merit scholarships totaling nearly $26 million. To advance as a finalist, the Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn qualifying SAT/ACT scores. Finalists will be announced in February 2025, with the National Merit Scholars to be named later in the spring.