October 2003 News Archive
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Semifinalists and Commended Students in the 2004 National Merit Scholarship Program
In the 49th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, 16,000 semifinalists from the Class of 2004 were identified from a field of more than 1.3 million juniors who entered the program. Students were selected based on their scores in the 2002 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Twenty of those semifinalists are from the Santa Barbara High School District. Once identified, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to finalist standing and be considered for a Merit Scholarship award. Finalists will be announced in the spring.
Additionally, 39 district students received letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise.
Dos Pueblos High School
11 Semifinalists
Sara Bastomski, Daniel Beal, Alexander Campbell, Michael Chung, Alexander Colman, Jedidjah DeVries, Zhiyun Guan, David
Pursell, Harry Warner, Lissa Yu, Karen Zaida
14 Commended Students
Laura Bolton, Michael Bowen, Christopher Colman, Michael Frech, Jess Howard-Anderson, Madison James, Daniel Johnson,
Maureen Kelly, Damien Pearson, Steven Polchinski, Kelly Riggs, Janelle Sharer, Tais Skovorodko, Rebecca Tinsley
San Marcos High School
4 Semifinalists
Benjamin Dearmond, Sasha Hamdani, Sally Johnson, Katherine Simon
12 Commended Students
Kathryn Alexander, Eetai Ben-Sasson, Diana Ciontea, Peter DeVore, Wayne Feng, Justin Gillett, Michael Hanson, Suzanne
Kreiner, Jessica Martison, Brian Romofsky, Sean Strickland, Allyssa Suding
Santa Barbara High School
5 Semifinalists
Eric Bank, Zachary Beiley, Nicole Kratz, Portia Lombardo, Jordan Teti
13 Commended Students
Sean Bothman, Clarissa Chenovick, Thomas Cross, Annique DeWitt, Morgan Foil, Sara Grand, Juliana Ilvento, Rachel Li,
Melody Morrison, Emma Ramoy, Craig Silverman, Scott Soulages, Sara Weinstein