Local students named as Merit Scholarship semifinalists

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.