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A total of five students at Lake Forest Academy were recently honored and recognized at Morning Meeting on Sept. 11 for being named Semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of over 16,000 Semifinalists from high schools around the country that include five LFA students. Semifinalists are selected based on the results of the PSAT/NMSQT® exams taken during their junior years. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
Members of the Class of 2025 that were named Semifinalists include:
- Ava Froberg
- Yiwen Lu
- Dayla Rosen
- Madison Rosen
- Aarnav Shah
These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition: to be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation will then award nearly $26 million in scholarship money to 6,870 Finalists in the spring and summer of 2025.
LFA’s five Semifinalists follow five in the Class of 2024, seven in the Class of 2023, two in the Class of 2022, three in the Class of 2021 and five in the Class of 2020.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2025 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join nearly 382,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.