Ten Prince William County students join the nationwide pool of semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.
They are Tristan Baird, Abigail Morgan, and Lisa Moshiro, who attend Battlefield High School, Hailey Page, a student at Brentsville District High School, Grace Yeboah-Kodie who attends Charles J. Colgan High School, Daniel Dereberry, a student at Forest Park High School, Lauren Osborne and Kenneth Petscavage from Osbourn Park High School, Matthew Trang, a student at Patriot High School, and Natalie Homnyom, who attends Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax.
About 1.6 million high school juniors entered the program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Now in their senior year, these PWCS students are among the highest scoring entrants from Virginia and join less than one percent or 16,000 of U.S. high school seniors who are continuing to the next stage of this scholarship competition.
As semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program, these students will compete for one of the 7,500 Merit Scholarship awards, which, according to a news release, are worth more than $32 million, or an average of about $2000 per semifinalist.
Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2018, according to the news release from Prince William County Schools: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships. The non-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation will release the names of the 2018 Merit Scholarship winners to news media nationwide beginning in April and concluding in July 2018, according to the news release.
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