By Michael Kaplan

A list of the 47 seniors who became National Merit Semifinalists was made public today. Fifteen thousand of the 16,000 national semifinalists will be made finalists at some point next year. The results were based on October 2006 PSAT scores. The following are the 47 National Merit Semifinalists:

Christy Ai
Timothy Allan
David Alpert
William Baskin-Gerwitz
Andrew Bloomgarden
Christie Choi
Matthew Edwards
Sydney Ember
Juliet Gensemer
Billy Goulston
Ross Gruber
David Harwitt
Richard Henderson
Carlee Joe-Wong
Adam Josephs
Natalie Karl
John Kenchelian
Danielle Kolin
Craig Kopulsky
Ariane Lange
Jason Lee
Jessica Lee
Jonathan Lee
Nathan Lee
Siena Leslie
Claire Lew
Zane Ma
Katherine MacDonald
Anne McGrath
Daniel Meer
Nicole Pak
Paul Rosenfield
Mark Rutter
Melissa Saphier
Tanner Scharch
Lauren Schleimer
Mark Seraydarian
Maya Spitzer
Ian Sprague
Ryan Thacher
Rebecca Title
Katherine Treuer
Samuel Usher
Gordon Wintrob
Zachary Witten
Alex Wittenberg
Luke Yun