Nineteen Hopkins Students Named Semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program

When officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) recently announced the names of over 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, 19 of them were seniors at Hopkins School, the most at any school in the state of Connecticut. 

The students named were: Jeet Bhatnagar, Christina Cao, Sylvia E. Covaci, William A. Davitt, Kathleen Driscoll, Henry A. Foushee, Theodore Friedman, Sarah Galvani-Townsend, Yuki M. Heeger, Nathaniel B. Huang, Sean D. Kelly, Ethan Liu, James Liu, Steven McDonald, Kaitlyn Miller, Lucas Scheps, Alexander Skula, Colten M. Trepp, and Kyle Zhang. Congratulations to these students who all represent the Hopkins class of 2025.

These 19 students now have the opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title. 

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2025 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July next year. Click here to learn more about the program.