The National Merit Scholarship Program refers to the name of the program that is designed for high school students in the United States. By using their Preliminary SAT (PSAT) or National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT), the students can enter the competition. Everyone with high score can be in the race for the scholarship award.
In the beginning of September 2022, about 16,000 students or 1/3 of the 50,000 high scorers, are notified that they have qualified as semifinalists of National Merit. Instead of 2022 National Merit semifinalists, they are more like 2023 National Merit semifinalists. The year 2022 refers to the year of the announcement. These people are the highest scoring entrants in every state. Apparently, the scores of all semifinalists are really high, even though they can vary from state to state and from year to year.
For those who are wondering about the 2023 National Merit semifinalists, you can check out the list by state below:
- Alabama: https://www.scribd.com/document/594545083/23-AL-Semifinalists-NatlMeritProgram
- Alaska: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg5ykl/ak_semifinalists/
- Arizona: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11f8o8AC3lWQ_UaAzSoPTtwIiwDqNtsKC/view?usp=sharing
- Arkansas: https://arktimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/23-AR-Semifinalists-NatlMeritProgram.pdf
- California: https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/50/81/1bcf0332446387ebb3b7e23c0df5/2023-ca-national-merit-scholarship-semifinalists.pdf
- Colorado: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nSFvDqXzsKiinxsIYy5vW3u0ZDwtzwl1/view?usp=sharing
- Connecticut: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xewn15/2023_connecticut_nm_semifinalists_list/
- Delaware, District of Columbia: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg60o0/delaware_dc/
- Florida: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gb_o6YaCl3jHL4xC2ZvuTkZiVdUzoijB/view?usp=sharing
- Georgia: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10pQZoT_V3KLgGyFtgHH8QL_i2NlYxekq/view?usp=sharing
- Hawaii: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg627m/hi_idaho/
- Idaho: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZDjThZdRTsfpPO72miT6wB99leje7s9/view
- Illinois: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AIjxLlB6keCPVbiSvT55PyrPoiBm0Z72/view?usp=sharing
- Indiana: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg63f5/indiana/
- Iowa: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LYyKNk9zGDErt-koUj8CuBYRYxlCZFmP/view?usp=sharing
- Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg64xv/kansas_kentucky_louisiana/
- Maine, Maryland: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg66yo/maine_md/
- Massachusetts: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xe1lvw/list_of_massachusetts_nm_semifinalists/
- Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi: https://www.reddit.com/user/DeltaLatch/comments/xg6903/michigan_minnesota_mississippi/
- Minnesota: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZo1XT4ohRPoY0PJPr4rrQ9MJw-bijZO/view?usp=sharing
- Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg6aou/mo_montana_nebraska_nevada_nh/
- New Hampshire: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xe1o3g/list_of_new_hampshire_nm_semifinalists/
- New Jersey: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg3b5a/nj_semifinalists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
- New Mexico, North Carolina: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg6d1a/new_mexico_north_carolina/
- New York: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GavcO1leZyfAod6rNwkFlZa8fyNQpX0X/view
- North Dakota: https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/31-north-dakota-students-named-semifinalists-for-national-merit-scholarship-program
- Ohio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ImDEeN-MsmZQc6ih6ycRPqryHlUDKQG/view?usp=sharing
- Oklahoma, Oregon: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg6ee3/oklahoma_oregon/
- Pennsylvania: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1REvZFDAcOWzc_TMcZWRtq9QDTL0gp3h4/view?usp=sharing
- Rhode Island: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xe1p54/list_of_rhode_island_nm_semifinalists/
- South Carolina, South Dakota: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg6g8c/south_carolina_south_dakota/
- Tennessee: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QO_0wlNRvKuB3xorFQh8T5I6a1S8kyH5/view?usp=sharing
- Texas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GyhBnxvS2qYn-HH2z-KLN-Uhzs7fFz09/view?usp=sharing
- Utah: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNTICMgkAvvj_oxQ6GR0xnveGOvD_iEm/view?usp=sharing
- Vermont, Wyoming, U.S. Territories, Outside the U.S.: https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xg6hte/vermont_wyoming_territoriesoutsideus_and_were_done/
- Virginia: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14RY9q0SRDdmtGIdh7vL3wfVb944b2WWK/view?usp=sharing
- Washington: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_j9kGEeBB_f94yhQMANtuVYCi0-jQgx/view?usp=sharing
- West Virginia: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcx1mvPNaUZHb6TR2cX5Zjsm-lVqCycW/view?usp=sharing
- Wisconsin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p6GPpKYGx2kW0aqHhtzZgE9dgpZVUQbX/view?usp=sharing
Feel free to open any link above that you want. For the sneak peak, you may want to check out some semifinalists of the 2023 National Merit from Alabama below:
ALBERTVILLE
MARSHALL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY:
- 629: Roden, Natasha E.
ANDALUSIA
ANDALUSIA H. S.:
- 000: Treadaway, Meleah M.
ATHENS
ATHENS H. S.:
- 451: Savoie, Asa H.
LINDSAY LANECHRISTIAN ACADEMY:
- 843: Harbin, Joshua H.
AUBURN
AUBURN H. S.:
- 450: Blersch, Emma J.
- 999: Duke, William P.
- 311: Gordon, Micah D.
- 459: Mahjouri, Naeim
- 162: Ro, Juwon
- 455: Schindler, Michelle L.
- 454: Shen, Kaicheng L.
- 000: Sutterer, Corinna H.
- 627: Yoon, Junseo
BIRMINGHAM
ALABAMA SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS:
- 000: Bittner, William W.
- 302: Gard, Dexter L.
- 000: Hull, Parker
- 000: Johnson, Zoe E.
- 000: Zhao, Daniel Y.
ALTAMONT SCHOOL:
- 999: Doppalapudi, Siddharth
- 628: Goli, Pranav K.
- 836: Mitchell, Lila E.
- 160: Sudarshan, Wesley V.
BRIARWOOD CHRISTIAN H. S.:
- 470: Olsen, Samuel
JOHN CARROLL CATHOLIC H. S.:
- 169: Herring, Morgan S.
- 999: Jehu, Adeline I.
- 454: Watts, Lily B.
JEFFERSON COUNTYINTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATESCHOOL:
- 000: Kulczycka, Izabella P.
- 160: Whitt, Mallory L.
OAK MOUNTAIN H. S.:
- 628: Dyer, Benjamin P.
- 302: Ferreiro, Justin C.
- 000: Hiers, Kyle N.
- 161: Lunsford, Emily B.
SPAIN PARK H. S.:
- 455: Collins, David J.
- 467: Lin, Zachary R.
- 450: Roberts, Benjamin L.
- 000: Selle, Fiona R.
- 000: Stefanov, Nicholas O.
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL ATOAK MOUNTAIN:
- 000: Stephenson, Walker
BOAZ
BOAZ H. S.:
- 000: Patel, Adit N.
COLUMBIANA
SHELBY COUNTY H. S.:
- 628: Justice, Denisen B.
DAPHNE
BALDWIN COUNTYVIRTUAL SCHOOL:
- 854: Schultz, Thomas J.
BAYSIDE ACADEMY:
- 710: Postle, Tyler
DAPHNE H. S.:
- 000: Bellew, James B.
- 000: Butler, Josiah P.
- 000: Perry, Ryan C.
- 455: Walding, Thomas M.
EUFAULA
ALABAMA VIRTUAL ACADEMY:
- 500: Halgren, Henry J.
FAIRHOPE
BAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL:
- 000: Dernlan, Boaz D.
FLORENCE
MARS HILL BIBLE SCHOOL:
- 455: Foster, Tyler D.
GADSDEN
GADSDEN CITY H. S.:
- 999: Nagarajan, Nitin
- 120: Roberts, Everett H.
- 630: Roberts, William H.
GLENCOE
GLENCOE H. S.:
- 843: Barber, Kaleb C.
- 628: Giles, Katie M.
GUNTERSVILLE
GUNTERSVILLE H. S.:
- 555: Hill, Evan B.
HARTSELLE
HARTSELLE H. S.:
- 000: Boster, Brody
- 000: Bowling, Jacob E.
- 000: Ellis, Reid
- 000: Moore, Eli
- 000: Stewart, Parker
HARVEST
SPARKMAN H. S.:
- 185: Beavers, Regan A.
- 843: Centamore, Emily R.
- 600: Stover, Joshua L.
HELENA
HELENA H. S.:
- 629: Risch, Sydney P.
HOMEWOOD
HOMEWOOD H. S.:
- 209: Bird, James W.
- 303: Collins, Brandon L.
- 454: Giffin, Lily K.
- 900: Jones, John N.
- 160: McCool, Kiran J.
- 000: Pearson, Samantha B.
- 160: Reed, Richard T.
HOOVER
HOOVER H. S.:
- 451: Argyropoulos, Christos
- 164: Chen, Jari Q.
- 185: Fu, Lukas R.
- 999: Gaddam, Kashvi P.
- 000: Geisler, Lauren C.
- 467: Gullahorn, Thomas K.
- 742: Haigler, Dylan D.
- 201: Hao, Thomas S.
- 600: Harden, Matthew M.
- 451: Hertz, William A.
- 185: Kudaravalli, Eshika
- 450: Renda, Dominic C.
- 204: Reynolds, Hannah S.
- 185: Sadanand, Midhun S.
- 628: Shen, Matthew D.
- 630: Upton, Jacob T.
- 999: Venkatesan, Rati H.
- 160: Wang, Liz
HUNTSVILLE
ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBERTECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING:
- 906: Ledlow, Joshua D.
VIRGIL I. GRISSOM H. S.:
- 168: Howard, Erin F.
- 160: Kim, Danielle I.
- 167: Lemons, Hannah K.
HUNTSVILLE H. S.:
- 000: Burch, Ian
- 120: Coffman, Daniel J.
- 451: McCallion, Joseph
- 455: Sierzego, Elizabeth G.
- 000: Singh, Nake
- 160: Wessells, Payton A.
NEW CENTURY TECHNOLOGY H. S.:
- 789: Duus, Ella R.
PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL SCHOOL:
- 450: Taylor, Marianne C.
RANDOLPH SCHOOL:
- 000: Dwyer, Finlay S.
- 000: Moore, Quinn C.
- 000: Somboon, Pong
- JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC H. S.:
- 000: Hare, Catherine
WESTMINSTER CHRISTIANACADEMY:
- 628: Fowler, Luke
- 450: Hamilton, Jennifer
- 960: Madison, Lori B.
- 254: Murphree, Anna C.
WHITESBURG CHRISTIANACADEMY:
- 450: Smith, Sawyer B.
INDIAN SPRINGS
INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL:
- 302: Cheng, Sida
- 999: Colvin, Veston A.
- 870: Kim, Victoria Y.
- 999: Kong, Derun
- 628: Li, Cynthia Y.
- 185: Nakano, Mayu A.
- 628: Nakano, Yujiro D.
- 500: Shoreibah, Nour
- 200: Xiao, Enoch
KILLEN
BROOKS H. S.:
- 628: Underwood, Benjamin M.
MADISON
JAMES CLEMENS H. S.:
- 185: Baig, Sohail M.
- 160: Das, Yuti
- 300: Dong, Sherwood
- 204: Gade, Ramshreyas R.
- 161: Kang, Christopher
- 160: Mandadapu, Punarvi S.
- 000: Pandey, Shaivi
- 000: Park, Tevin
- 303: Somu, Pranav C.
- 000: Swaine, Elizabeth K.
- 950: Wang, Joshua X.
- 302: Yang, Jeremiah J.
- 302: Zheng, Jerry L.
HOMESCHOOL:
- 000: Molloy, Zoe M.
- 743: Stubbs, Caleb S.
BOB JONES H. S.:
- 742: Arslanbekov, Thais R.
- 000: Bao, Elaine V.
- 185: Chopade, Neha S.
- 628: Chopade, Puja S.
- 175: Digges, Anna E.
- 457: Dinh, Vincent T.
- 209: Gore, Kennedy G.
- 454: Hu, Williams B.
- 843: League, Bryce C.
- 000: Nguyen, Cam N.
- 741: Pan, Justin J.
- 000: Prabhakar, Ashwin
- 000: Qu, Lilian
- 168: Ramesh, Pranav N.
- 185: Ramesh, Soorya N.
- 517: Stephenson, Craig H.
- 999: Stern, Alexander M.
- 456: Wang, Constance
- 000: Yang, Jonathan L.
