​The National Merit® Scholarship Program

Central Catholic senior, Jamison Beiriger was named a semifinalist in the 2016 National Merit® Scholarship Program. The semifinalists represent the top 16,000, or the 99.5 percentile, of the more than 1.5 million juniors who took the PSAT.

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) and by meeting published program entry/participation requirements. The test is taken during the junior year and the results were announced in September, during the students’ senior year.

Additionally, 14 Central Catholic students were named Commended Students in the 2015 National Merit®Scholarship Program. These Commended Students placed among the top five percent.

Row 1: Aidan Towsley, Noah Donnenberg. Row 2: Ryan Nguyen, Daniel Fuscaldo. Row 3: William McCarthy, Connor McNeil, Antonino Castellano, Daniel Crawford. Row 4: Jeffrey Socash, Jamison Beiriger, Sean Bailey. Row 5: Matthew Pilewski, Timothy Leisenring, Robert Kiernan. Missing from Photo: Creighton Tarrant