By Press Times Staff
BROWN COUNTY – Local students from around the area were recently named as semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
The following students are among the 16,000 students nationwide who will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring.
De Pere High School
Jackson Gallagher
Calvin Hunt
Aisa Longnecker
West De Pere High School
Sawyer Grovogel
Ashwaubenon High School
Emma Fischer
Samuel Stanko
Christian Van Iten
Bay Port High School
Lewis Anderson
Dane Christiansen
Gabrielle Lee
Isabelle Lee
Samuel Martinez
Anna Mittag
Patrick Nowakowski
Cyril Schlueter
Notre Dame Academy
Emerson Dycus
Preble High School
Jonathan Meder
Pulaski High School
Rachel Stumpf
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.
More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
Over 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.