27 RL Boys Recognized in National Merit Scholarship Competition

The National Merit Scholarship Program recently announced the names of Class of 2025 students across the country who earned recognition for their academic achievement. This year, 27 Roxbury Latin boys were named—seven as National Merit Scholar semifinalists and twenty others earning commendations from program officials, equating to 48% of the class.

Juniors from across the United States entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program by taking the 2023 PSAT. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state, while commended students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for academic success at the college level.

It is estimated annually that from the approximately 16,000 semifinalists, about 15,000 will advance to become finalists, making them eligible for 6,870 National Merit Scholarships nationwide. The organization, along with several hundred independent businesses and companies, support the awards totaling over $33 million. 

Roxbury Latin boys earning recognition this year include semifinalists Darian Estrada, Levi Harrison, Xavier Martin, Krish Muniappan, Brendan Reichard, Raj Saha, and Daniel Stepanyan; and commendation recipients Miles Baumal-Bardy, Lucas Connors, Alex Giordano, Zach Heaton, Josh Hua, Bruno Kim, Justin Lim, Nick Makura, Ben McVane, Ryan Miller, Lucas Numa, Cole Oberg, Eliot Park, Devan Rajagopalan, Calvin Reid, Robbie Sun-Friedman, Jack Sweet, Quinn Thomson, Oliver van den Bosch, and Nathan Zhang.