A total of 34 students have been named “Commended Students” as part of the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program, according to a release from the Bridgewater-Raritan High School.

Each student will receive a letter of commendation certificate from the National Merit Scholarship Program.

A total of 34,000 students are being recommended for the program throughout the nation.

According to the release, those students in the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million who entered the contest in their 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test were commended through the program.

Those students recognized in Bridgewater are:

• Spencer Chang
• Evan Cohen
• Akhil Golla
• Michaela Harvis
• Kathryn Hong
• Sam Kulesa
• Lauren Kupper
• Seung Lee
• Smitha Pallaki
• Eileen Shentu
• Christopher Wu
• Thomas Brown
• Jennifer Chen
• Justin Do
• Kirby Gong
• Harrison He
• Jennifer Hsu
• Anish Kumar
• Molly Lathrop
• Emily Lu
• Ami Patel
• Humphrey Wang
• Rose Ying
• Weihua Chen
• Sara Fernandes
• Crystal Guo
• Keerthana Hirudayakanth
• Olivia Kan
• Vinay Kumar
• Julie Lee
• Rounak Mukhopadhyay
• Cullen Pitney
• Ivan Wong
• Linda Zhuang