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Valley Regional Students Named to National Merit Program

Valley Regional High School (VRHS) Principal Michael Barile has announced that Quentin Baron, Jack Finnegan, Alex Ligget, Patrick O’Rourke, and Alison Safran have been named Commended Students in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, was presented by Barile to these scholastically talented seniors.

Approximately 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although Baron, Finnegan, Ligget, O'Rourke, and Safran will not continue in the 2023 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, they placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2023 competition by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

“Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” said a spokesperson for NMSC. “These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.”