The students – Gabrielle Cohen, Carlos Del Aguila, Samuel Cave, Claire Sehdeva, Maxwell Smith, and Noah Yairi – earned this distinction based on their performance on last year’s Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). They join about 34,000 students, out of 1.3 million who took the test, to be recognized for high achievement.
“These types of achievements only reaffirm the high quality of students that we are privileged to serve,” said New Rochelle High School Principal Dr. Dagberto Artiles. “These students are a direct representation of what happens in the classrooms across the entire New Rochelle High School campus and the level of rigor that our nearly 3,000 students are exposed to on a daily basis.”
According to NMSC, “Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success. These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation.”
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by about 300 business organizations, higher education institutions, and individual donors that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.