HHS Qualifies Three for
National Merit Program
Three Huntington High School juniors have qualified to enter the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. The group is among a select group nationwide to qualify for the academic competition, which began in 1955.
Huntington students Daniel B, Gallagher, Ari C. Moskowitz and Alexis M. Weitzner have all qualified for the highly regarded National Merit program.
Each one of the teenagers met the required "selection index" of at least 200 to place among the top 50,000 out of 1.5 million participants. About 16,000 will later be named National Merit semifinalists. The remaining 34,000 will be officially commended for their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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| Alexis M. Weitzner | Ari C. Moskowitz | Daniel B. Gallagher |
Huntington Principal Dr. Carmela Leonardi said the students will learn in September if they are semi-finalists in the program. Semi-finalists will then have an opportunity to continue in the competition which will culminate in the naming of about 8,300 National Merit finalists in February 2013.
Finalists in the program will begin being notified next March if they have been selected to receive a financial scholarship award. There are more than 20,000 high schools in the United States.