The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has released the last two lists of finalists who are received college scholarships of between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study.
For this year’s competition, 146 colleges and universities – including 74 private and 72 public – are sponsoring about 3,700 awards.
Recipients are among 15,000 students that made it to the finalist level based on their scores on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualify Tests, taken as juniors. They make up fewer than one percent of the nation’s top-performing high school graduates.
They are among about 7,100 students who will have received National Merit, corporate, or college-sponsored scholarships from specific schools, totaling $26 million.
Since the non-profit National Merit Scholarship Corp. was formed in 1955, about 389,000 students have received scholarships worth $1.4 billion.
The following 10 students are receiving National Merit Scholarship Corp. scholarships of $2,500. They are listed by high school, and include the student’s possible career field. Some Cincinnati area private high schools are included because the recipient attends the school:
Archbishop Moeller: Alexander Rose, University of Alabama, mechanical engineering
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, Timothy McCoy, Purdue University, engineering, lives in Fairfield
Homeschool: Charis Ng, Liberty University, biomedicine, lives in Mason
Kings: Derek Harris, Purdue, computer science; Lusas Webster, University of Alabama, computer science
Lakota West: Prithika Padmanabhan, Case Western Reserve University, biochemistry
Mason: Samuel Aronoff, Rochester Institute of Technology, software engineering
Seven Hills: Sophia Schuermeyer, Emory University, environmental policy
St. Xavier: Ryan Kos, Purdue University, aerospace engineering, lives in Liberty Twp.
Talawanda: Victor Li, Purdue University, chemical engineering
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