Florida's National Merit Scholarship Winners Named - Tampa, FL - The National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced this year's National Merit $2,500 scholarship winners from Florida.
Patrick Herrin, a senior at Essex High School, was recently selected as one of five Vermont students to receive a National Merit Scholarship.
In the U.S., 2,500 students were chosen to receive the $2,500 scholarship from a pool of about 16,000 finalists, according to a press release. The number of winners named in each state is proportional to the stateâs percentage of the nationâs graduating high school seniors.
Herrin was selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who reviewed applications submitted by both the finalists and their high schools. Students submitted academic records, Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores, a personal essay, their contributions and leadership to school and community activities and a recommendation written by a high school official.
Weston student awarded $2.5K National Merit scholarship
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National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced this year’s National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners. Weston High School student Jacqueline S. Liu was included among the honorees.
The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of some 16,000 finalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The number of winners named in each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the nation’s graduating high school seniors.
Five Acadiana students were named National Merit Scholars, each receiving $2,500 and distinction few can boast.
They are among only 2,500 Merit Scholars nationwide 33 in Louisiana chosen from a talent pool of some 16,000 finalists in the 2021 scholarship program.
Four hail from Lafayette Parish: Oliver Craddock of Lafayette High; Arden Frantzen of Episcopal School of Acadiana; Rafael Hernandez of Teurlings Catholic High School; and Alaina Le of St. Thomas More Catholic High School.
A fifth, AnaLaysha Burgess-Collazo, is from Jeanerette and attends the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a public residential high school in Natchitoches.
They were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by the finalists and their high schools: the academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from the Preliminary SAT/National
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