The following National Merit Scholarship Finalists and Semifinalists are among the top 16,000 students from the more than 1.3 million who took the Preliminary Scholarship Aptitude Test (PSAT). They will have the opportunity to compete for about 8,000 Merit Scholarship Awards.

+ 2006 Semifinalists
- Claudia Chou
- Kaeleigh Farrish
- Dan Gilday
- Samantha Lane
- Christina Lavash
- Ravi Sarawgi

+ 2005 Semifinalists
- Aalap Bommaraju
- David Carper
- Courtenay Holscher
- Matthew Meyer
- Charlie Wang
- Michell Wang
- Xiao Wang

+ 2005 Commended
- Jefferey Berger
- Ryan hartlage
- Michael Heinze
- Kirra Johnson

+ 2004 Semifinalists
- Shengyi Mao
- Krystal Dobbins

+ 2004 Commended
- Justin Chapman
- Richard Duran
- John Goldman
- Margaret Hendee
- Brian laChapelle
- Pamela Loebig
- Molly McPheron
- Josh Muckerman
- Allison Suding
- Matt Townsley
- Catherine Turner

+ 2003 Finalists/Winners
- Rukku Singla

+ 2002 Finalists/Winners
- Xiaobo Dong
- Noha El Mouelhi
- Eric Laugel
- Amir Manji
- Eric Schwartz

+ 2001 Finalists/Winners
- Joshua Austin
- Katherine Bosch
- Fang He
- Phillip Stimpert
- Daniel Veale

+ 2000 Finalists/Winners
- Kalki Bommaraju
- Nathan Cruze
- Kenneth Dobbins
- Brietta Lynch
- Daniel Rogers
- Rubina Salikuddin
- Maria Southman