The College Board has announced the 2021 National Merit Semifinalists. Conestoga High School once AGAIN has the largest number of National Merit semifinalists in the entire state of Pennsylvania. 

There are 39 semifinalists from Conestoga who reached this significant milestone of academic excellence based on their performance on the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). In the United States there are only 16,000 National Merit semifinalists which represents less than 1% of the graduating seniors in high schools across our nation.

These academically talented high school seniors will go on to compete for some 7,600 scholarships through the National Merit Corporation or its sponsoring organizations.

On the semifinalist list are: Arjun Arasappan, Michael Bagby, Dermott Breault, Shayl Chetty,Jacob Cho, Michael Dobson, Daniel Gergeus, Hita Gupta, Unnati Gupta, Emma Hopkins, Rachel Jin, Adam Khalil,Katherine Lee, Stella Lei,Joshua Li,Daniel Marshall, Athira Menezes, Paige Munroe, Sean Nissenbaum, Sophia Pan,Rachel Pei, Nicholas Rinderle, Ramdhan Russell,  Umar Samdani, Jack Semmer, Aditya Sirohi, Shresht Sitram, Audrey Solomon, Annie Sun, Jeffrey Tan,  Reese Wang, Julia Wei, Chloe Williams, Claire Youngblood, Yiyang Yu, Wyatt Zantua, Ashley Zhang, Hannah Zhang, Hannah Zhang, Charity Xu

CONGRATULATIONS to the students, their families, the wonderful teachers, administrators, staff and school board of TE Schools! It takes a village!