Raj Saha ’25 Named National Merit Scholarship Winner

The National Merit Scholarship Program has recently announced its selection of 2,500 scholarship winners, chosen from a pool of 15,000 talented high school senior finalists nationwide. Raj Saha, a recent graduate in the Class of 2025, earned a $2,500 scholarship toward college next year, representing less than 1% of the initial entrants. Raj will be attending Harvard College beginning in the fall. 

The National Merit Scholarship Program selection process began in October 2023, when roughly 1.5 million juniors took the PSAT, or the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. In addition to Raj, 28 Roxbury Latin boys were named—seven as National Merit Scholar semifinalists and twenty-one others earning commendations from program officials, equating to 50% of the class.

It is a great honor to have a National Merit Scholarship winner in a graduating senior class of 56. Congratulations to all of the RL boys who received recognition from the National Merit Scholarship Program this year.

In this 67th annual National Merit Scholarship competition, awards are supported by the organization and approximately 400 businesses and educational institutions, to “honor the nation’s scholastic champions and encourage the pursuit of academic excellence.” About 1.5 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program by taking the 2023 PSAT, which serves as an initial screen of program entrants. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for academic success at the college level.