Princeton Day School Announces Finalist In National Merit Scholarship Competition

From Princeton Day School:

Princeton Day School is proud to announce that Harrison Okun ’14 (Princeton) has advanced to Finalist standing in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Mr. Okun is currently a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was accepted after his junior year at Princeton Day School.

Mr. Okun was chosen from among the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists named in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. All Finalists will be considered for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships to be offered this year. Scholarship winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July.

Earlier this year, thirteen Princeton Day School students were announced as National Merit Commended Scholars: Iqra Asghar, Suveer Bhatia, Neeraj Devulpalli, Justin Donnelly, Rory Finnegan, Jake Hall, Sean Hudson, Herbert Li, Anuj Mehndiratta, Derek Modzelewski, Mallory Richards, Brian Sunberg, and Alex Zhu.