Two South Brunswick H.S. Students Get National Merit Scholarships

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ -- Two students from South Brunswick High School are among more than 800 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities that were announced earlier this week.

Bhargavi Karthikeyan and Arav Ravula of South Brunswick High School were both selected.

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Karthikeyan, who will be studying Non-Profit Management, received a National Merit Scholarship to Northeastern University.

Ravula, who will study Computer Science, received a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Maryland.

This year’s competition for National Merit Scholarships began when high school juniors  took the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®),  which served as an initial screen of program entrants. In September 2023, more than 16,000  semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than 1 percent of the nation’s seniors.

To become a finalist, each semifinalist had to complete a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay, describing leadership positions and contributions in school and community activities, showing an outstanding academic record, and being endorsed and  recommended by a high school official. Semifinalists also had to take the SAT® or ACT® and earn  scores that confirmed their performance on the initial qualifying test. From the semifinalist group,  over 15,000 attained finalist standing, and about half of the finalists were chosen to receive  National Merit Scholarships.

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