About 34,000 Commended Students nationwide are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2024 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2024 competition by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Please join us in congratulating the following students on this wonderful achievement: (l to R) Rowan Auriemma, Alexander Ponzio, Tuoyu Yang, Declan Huggins, Colin Geier, Grace Sletten, Kyle Ozga, Quinten Ahler, Anna Scholtens, Dean O’Bryan, Jake Brecknock, Faith Drumm, Clara Kalas, Isabel Price.