All six Pingry semifinalists in the 2025 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 six students, 38 Pingry students have been finalists over the past five years.

Finalists:
Benjamin Chung
Elbert Ho
Eshaan Jain
Vinav Shah
Ziv Shah
Ella Wunderlich

To enter the 2025 program, about 1.5 million juniors took the 2023 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