On Sept. 26, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of 19 National Merit Commended Students from Mercer Island High School.

The 2014 National Merit Commended Students are:

Brooke Behrbaum                Kayleigh Dobson

Eric Dubofsky                        Nathan Gallatin

Ann Guinee                            Trevor Gullstad

Meghan Hershkowitz            Alexander Hoffman

Matthew Manner                   Kristine Melin

Scott Montague                     Ryan Ottinger

Olivia Shen                             Joseph Shin

Adrienne Suhn                      Jeremy Voss

Meredith Wootton                Michelle You

Yi Zhang

About 34,000 National Merit Commended Students are being recognized throughout the nation for their exceptional academic promise. They all placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

“On behalf of the Mercer Island High School community I congratulate you for a well-deserved honor,” said MIHS Principal Vicki Puckett.

On Sept. 11, MIHS students Lauren Hsue, David Emanuels, Louis Lam and Carlin Chuck were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, representing the top one percent of entrants.