Commonwealth School is pleased to share outcomes from the 2025 National Merit® Scholarship Program to date.
Fifteen of this year's thirty-seven seniors have been recognized in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program, either as Semifinalists or Commended students.
Representing the state of Massachusetts, our Semifinalist is Cody Bau '25. He joins a nationwide pool of more than 16,000 students, representing less than 1% of graduating high school seniors in the U.S. and including the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
An additional fourteen Commonwealth seniors received notice of the National Merit Letter of Commendation. These are students whose PSAT scores put them in the top ~3% of test takers nationally:
- Peyson Bilimoria '25
- Henry Booth '25
- Peter Dowd '25
- Aritra Ghosh '25
- Oliver Grant '25
- Katie Heim Binas '25
- Alissa Lopes '25
- Anya Ratanchandani '25
- Dylan Sherry '25
- Ella Sherry '25
- Brooks Sjostrom '25
- Yiray Wang '25
- Charlie Zhong '25
- Milana Zivanovic '25
More than 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test®. Finalists will be announced in February of 2025, and National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced between April and July.
Our congratulations to these and all of our hardworking seniors!
For more information, please contact Director of Communications Jessica Tomer, jtomer@commschool.org, 617-266-7525.