Twenty-six Pingry School seniors are recognized for exceptional academic promise as Commended Students in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. They placed among the top 50,000 scorers of students who entered the 2025 competition by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Including these 26 students, 158 Pingry students have been Commended Students over the past five years.

Commended Students:
Sasha Bauhs
Jeremy Betz
Jack Buckley
Ethan Chan
Eddy Chen
Isabelle Chen
Arjun Goel
Nicholas Henry
Graham Houghton
Daniel Lanao
Ethan Liu
JingJing Luo
Krish Patel
Parth Patel
Sienna Patel
William Pertsemlidis
Alexander Recce
Jonathan Robustelli
Nataly Ruiz
Aarav Sonthalia
Joaquin Stevenson
Sriya Tallapragada
Kirsten Thomas
Alex Wong
Sofia Wood
Carolyn Zhou


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