Commonwealth School is pleased to share outcomes from the 2026 National Merit® Scholarship Program to date.
Twenty-five of this year's thirty-eight seniors have been recognized in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, either as Semifinalists or Commended students.
Representing the state of Massachusetts are six Commonwealth senior semifinalists:
- Mirabel Han
- Happy Liang
- Anna Lu
- Jacob Signorovitch
- Brandon Zhou
- Thomas Zhou
They join 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 nineteen 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:
- Jake Alexander
- Auren Amster
- Alyssa Beach
- Kate Bruel
- Koki Cameron
- Mira Haber
- Jake Hurwitz
- Brian Li
- Juliana Li
- Danny McDonnell
- Steph McMasters
- Will Papp
- Aasya Tahir
- Kevin Wang
- Emi Weinberg
- Tomás Wright-Katz
- Iris Yang
- Addie Zha
- Olivia Zhou
More than 1.3 million juniors in about 20,000 high schools entered the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test®. Finalists will be announced in February of 2026, 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.