Wednesday, October 15, 2003
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
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National Merit semifinalists announced Twelve Fayette students are among the 16,000 nationwide who are now vying for some 8,000 merit scholarship awards totaling $30 million that are being offered through the National Merit Scholarship Program. As juniors, students took the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which serves as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists includes the highest scoring entrants in each state who were designated semifinalists in numbers proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Fayette’s semifinalists are (Fayette County High) Kirk A. Palan, Stephanie B. Smith and David J. Tiffany, (McIntosh High) Matthew Horlacher, Skyler Johnson and Shirley Li, (Starr’s Mill High) Jessica M Bryant, Andrew T. Freeman, Andrew D. Head, Dustin M. Hipp, Daniel O’Shaughnessy, Carey J. Owens and Daniel W. Owens. The next step for the semifinalists is to fulfill requirements to advance to finalist standing, a prerequisite to competing for a Merit Scholarship award. To become finalists, semifinalists must have a record of very high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.
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