Editor’s note: this article was corrected on October 22 to include two students who are not in the photo.
Thirty-four Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School seniors have been named Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Six of them are Lincoln residents.
About 34,000 of the 1.5 million students nationally who entered the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test received letters of commendation. Another 16,000 entrants qualified as semifinalists on a state-represented basis, and about 15,000 of those will be named as finalists for about 7,400 scholarships.
Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program from L-S. Lincoln residents are in boldface. Top row: Emily Gorman, Rudhra Raveendran, Samuel Mlawer, Aaron Epstein, Samuel Neil, Katerina Matjucha, Katherine Quirk, Claire Telfer, Nicole Pellegrini, Sarah Hausmann, Sara Bennett, Samira Mehta, Alina Strileckis, Jessica Keller, Jillian Cusick, Caroline Goswami, Alexandra du Toit. Bottom row: Matthew Short, Madeleine Kline, Jasmine Falk, Ariel Keklak, Zacharie Day, Indrani Kharbanda, Eve Montie, Katherine Semple, Catherine Pinto, Sara Kimble, William Sheldon, Aaron Corin, Andrew Fasciano, Gavin Mays, Regan Murray. Not pictured: Adam Thompson and Tiger Zhang. Photo courtesy Charles Despotopulos.
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