Three PWC students win National Achievement scholarships

Brianna Gilmore, Francesca Peavie, and Sydney Jordan have distinguished themselves as top scholars among the nation’s high school students by winning National Achievement Scholarship Program honors.

Gilmore, a student at Battlefield High School; Peavie, a student at Patriot High School; and Jordan, who attends Stonewall Jackson High School, have each received $2,500 National Achievement Scholarships.

These students join talented black American high school seniors from across the United States who will receive scholarships in the 2015 National Achievement program as a result of qualifying scores on the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).

Gilmore, Peavie, and Jordan were selected from among 1,300 finalists. All finalists had to have an outstanding high school academic record, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal, and submit SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance in the PSAT/NMSQT test which originally qualified them.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program recognizes academically promising black students throughout the nation and provides scholarships to the most outstanding program participants.

Finalists were selected based upon professional evaluations of their abilities, accomplishments, and potential success in rigorous college studies.