Twenty-one students from the Class of 2025 have been selected as Commended Students in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program.
These students are among 34,000 high schoolers recognized throughout the nation as part of the top 50,000 scoring students who entered the competition by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The Commended Scholars are: Carys Braun, Alexis Fan, Julia Gawel, Khushi Gohel, Zoe Heintges, Sarah Holmes, Sophie Karthik, Riley Kim, Emma Lin, Kristin Liu, Saxon Moseley, Ellie Nerenberg, Julia Pan, Laura Paul, Aryaa Phadke, Kathryn Stoller, Vivian Sun, Jane Taten, Sunnie Wang, Abby Woodberry, and Laurie Zhao.
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.