Bay Ridge
Congratulations are in store for five upper-school seniors at Poly Prep Country Day School for their outstanding scholarly achievements and winning prestigious national academic honors.
Benjamin Claremont ’15, Hendrik Humes ’15 and Flora Gallina-Jones ’15, each qualified as a semifinalist in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program, with Flora hitting double gold by being named a National Hispanic Recognition Program award recipient as well.
Established in 1955, National Merit Scholarship Corporation identifies and honors academically talented high schoolers. These top-three Preppers are among 16,000 high school seniors across the United States who will compete for some of the 7,600 National Merit Scholarships to be offered in spring 2015.
Travis DeShong ’15 and Alyssa Brown ’15 were designated as semifinalists in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program, which is a privately financed academic competition initiated in 1964 to recognize academically promising African-American students. Alyssa and Travis were considered based on their performance in the 2013 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test-National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Benjamin is looking forward to an international education at St. Andrews University in Scotland, studying international relations; Flora is hoping for a career solving real-world problems with math; Hendrik plans on attending a technical school and studying engineering; Alyssa is avidly pursuing a career in medicine; and Travis hopes to bone up on his creative skills in writing, but also enjoys economics, film, history and political science.
Poly Prep Country Day School [9215 Seventh Ave. at Poly Place in Bay Ridge, (718) 836–9800].
