Roy C. Ketcham High School

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. Approximately 1.6 million high school students enter the program each year.  Of the 1.6 million entrants, some 50,000 with the highest PSAT/NMSQT® Selection Index scores (calculated by doubling the sum of the Reading, Writing and Language, and Math Test scores) qualify for recognition in the National Merit® Scholarship Program. In September, these high scorers are notified through their schools that they have qualified as either a Commended Student or Semifinalist. 

RCK is proud of its students who have been named finalists or semi-finalists for the National Merit Scholarship.

The following students will receive recognition in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program:

Kristy Belesaca Duque, Shiven Dabbi, Nathaniel Hom, Derek Marr, muhammad Muhammad Al-Sheabani, Charlotte Williams, Emily Zhang, Sophie Zhang

Commended Students in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program

Edward Haw, Jack S. Ostrander, Annie Vallamattam, David Y. Zhang

Class of 2021

• Emily Duchi

Class of 2020

• Kiyan Daneshvar

Class of 2019

• Eileen Liang
• Kreena Vora

Commended Students - 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program

• Daniel Aldarondo
• Eszter I. Beahan
• Wynter Y. Chen
• Geoffrey R. Du
• Taskinuddin Forkan
• Camille F. Secor
• Melanie E. Susman 

Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2017 competition by taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).