Cedarcrest students earn honors in 2016 National Merit Scholarship program

Published 11:53 am Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Six students at Cedarcrest High School have earned honors in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Honorees received letters of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) and recognition from Cedarcrest principal Clarence Lavarias.

The 2016 National Commended Merit Scholars are: Christian Aksama, Nicholas Buckley, Simon Fraser, Nathan Hunt, Bryan McClintic, and Vaibhav Vijay.

These students rank among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.