Local students named National Merit SemiFinalists

On Wednesday, September officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. 

A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test.

About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and more than half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

Local students named:

SHORECREST H. S.

Falkenberg, Tzuria M.

Kau, Robert U.

Sui, Jennifer L. 

SHOREWOOD H. S.

Hickman, Nathan J.

Yuen, Rebecca S.

Zhou, Yi

LAKESIDE SCHOOL

Wilson, Francis