Gill St. Bernard’s was proud to honor eight seniors recognized in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Upper School Director Dr. Joel Coleman P ’22 announced the recipients in Upper School Assembly and they included:
National Merit Semifinalist
Nathan Jiang
National Merit Commended Students
Josephine Adebambo
Akshara Datla
Sanjay De Silva
Jacqueline Herrera-Perez
Katherine Horton
Alexander Nibauer
Harry Pambianchi
As a Semifinalist, Jiang has the opportunity to continue in the competition and to qualify for a National Merit Scholarship.
Held annually, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation identifies the top performers among all students taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). This past October, over 1.3 million students took the qualifying test. Commended Students are those who placed among the top 50,000 of students who took the qualifying test, and Semifinalists placed among the top 17,000 students.
Congratulations to our Commended students and to our Semifinalist. We wish you continued academic success in the future!