Congratulations to the 11 members of the class of 2026 who have been named as Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program:

• Alexander Cheng
• Arnay Garhyan
• Connor Kacena-Merrell
• Justin Li
• Shreya Mallela
• Hudson Messer
• Clara Myers
• Kaitlyn Park
• Leo Sniderman
• Riti Tandra 
• Owen Zhang

More than 1.5 million juniors entered the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. National Merit Scholarship recipients will be announced beginning in April.