This year, Bellaire High School recognized 37 National Merit Commended students in addition to the 25 National Merit Semifinalists who have scored highly on the PSAT/NMSQT test.

Osama Arif, Adelle Berkowitz, Cari Bonilla, Claire Burrus, Raveena Chhibber, Dallas Yu, Melvin Du, Tamarah Farchy, Madeline Folkerts, Lauren Friederman, Ron Gadot, Danilel Guo, Hailey Haut, Crystal Huang, Terry Huang, Max Lau, Lee Lorenz, Aaron Neskar, Anna Ngo, Catherine Oh, Molly Oretsky, Rebecca Orsak, Pooja Prasad, Victoria Prince, Karlo Remigio, Henry Seward, Elaine Shen, Madison Silver, Geroge Walters, Tiffany Wang, Jason Weilee, Ryan Yang, Manlin Yao, Vivian Young, Max Zhang, Qiaochu Zhang.

This September, approximately 34,000 seniors in the nation were announced as National Merit Commended students. These students placed in the top five percent on a Selection Index among the 1.5 million entrants who took the qualifying PSAT/NMSQT test during their junior year.  Unlike the scoring method for semifinalists, which varies for each state, this is only one commended score cutoff for the entire country.

Although commended students will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, they will receive Letters of Commendation and have the chance to become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.