Ithaca High School Principal Caren Arnold recently announced that 25 seniors—up from 15 in 2025—have been named Commended Students in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program.
The honored students are:
Amelia Anderson
Jaya Bhojraj
Vera Chernyakov
Irene Chi
Ace Dufresne
Jasper Farmer
Skylor Ford
Sage Golden
Ethan He
Jack Hom
Jonah Jacobstein
Rohan Jena
Helina Kim
Owen Kinney
Leonid Korzukhin
Joseph Ma
Roxana Maralani
Geneva Matusiak
Andor Nadasdy
Joonho Park
Michael Qi
Leo Sagan
Sungiva St. Laurent
Zadie Wang
Wyatt Wang-Slate
These students will receive a Letter of Commendation from Ithaca High School and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which oversees the program.
Nationwide, about 34,000 students are recognized as Commended Students for their outstanding academic achievements. While these students will not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, their performance on the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) places them among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2026 competition.