Pingry Announces Finalists in 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program

All three Pingry semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program have advanced to become finalists. The program honors students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Including these three students, 40 Pingry students have been finalists over the past five years.

Finalists:
Mirika Jambudi
Milenka Men
Leo Xu

To enter the 2023 program, 1.6 million juniors took the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The national pool of 16,000 semifinalists included the highest-scoring entrants in each state. To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have had an outstanding academic record throughout high school, earned SAT scores that confirmed the earlier performance on the qualifying test, and demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities. Approximately 7,500 National Merit Scholarships will be awarded this spring.


Contact: Greg Waxberg '96, Communications Writer, Editor of The Pingry Review