Nashua North boasts three National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

A schoolwide announcement at Nashua High School North on Tuesday revealed three seniors as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship  competition. The students are Olivia Powell, Priyanka Satpute and Madeline Doctor. Each qualified by achieving a high score on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last fall. According to NationalMerit.org, about 16,000 students across the country were selected as semifinalists. “I’m very excited to have qualified,” said Doctor, who said she prepared for the PSATs “with practice tests, but nothing special.” “You can never really be sure what’s going to happen with scholarships and applications,” Powell said, “but I hope I will be honored with a final scholarship. I didn’t really do anything to prepare for the PSATs, except taking them sophomore year.” As semifinalists, Powell, Satpute and Doctor must submit their high school transcripts and additional test scores to the National Merit Scholarship Corp.