Ridgewood High School Boasts Four National Merit Semifinalists, 25 Commended Students

file photo by Boyd Loving

September 28,2016

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, The following four RHS seniors have been designated semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Competition: Katherine Bonfiglio, Rachel Bradley, Sung Min Kim and Ryan Mahtab. Before they can be considered for Merit Scholarship awards, semifinalists must advance to the finalist level of the competition by fulfilling additional requirements. These include having an outstanding academic record throughout high school, being endorsed and recommended by the high school principal and submitting SAT I scores that confirm the earlier PSAT/NMSQT performance and finally, they must have a social security number.

In addition to the four semifinalists, 25 students have been identified as Commended Students in the most recent competition.

Advanced Placement Scholars Named
One hundred thirty six students at Ridgewood High School have been named AP Scholars by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college level Advanced Placement Examinations.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on the students’ performance on AP exams. At RHS:

Six students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4.0 or higher on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.
Twenty-nine students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
Fifty-one students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher.

About 18 percent of the more than 1.9 million high school students worldwide who took AP Examinations in May 2016 performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.

Twenty-one award recipients are juniors. These students have at least one more year in which to do college-level work, and possibly earn another Advanced Placement Award.