Local Senior Gets Academic Award

Xavier High School senior Stephen Day was honored at Xavier's Fall Honors Assembly for being named a College Board National Merit Scholarship Commended Student. The award goes to students who place in the top 50,000 of 1.5 million students nationwide that take the PSAT exam. Stephen, a 17-year-old from the Upper East Side, was also named a member of the College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program. He was recognized for scoring in the top 2 percent of all Latinos who took the PSAT.