Post by momof3 on May 23, 2007 8:42:22 GMT -6
As mentioned in another thread -
Naperville students named Merit Scholarship recipients
(http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/396930,6_1_NA23_MERIT_S1.article)
May 23, 2007
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A dozen students from Naperville-area high schools are among the 2,200-plus winners of Merit Scholarship awards, financed by colleges and universities they plan on attending, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Five Naperville North High School students received awards: John Sadlik and Nancy Jao, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Vuk Brajuskovic, from the University of Chicago; Linda Chen, from the University of Central Florida; and Paul Rice, from Hope College.
Four Neuqua Valley High School students received the award: Julia Ding, from the University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Koys, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Lin, from Washington University in St. Louis; and Katja Koshelev, from the University of Chicago.
Two Waubonsie Valley High School students received the award: Rebecca Hsu, from Northwestern University; and Ian Crane, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Douglas Mackin of Naperville Central High School received an award from Washington University in St. Louis.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from the finalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
These winners, which were announced today, are among about 8,200 distinguished 2007 high school seniors who will receive Merit Scholarship awards worth a total of $34 million for college undergraduate study. In addition to college-sponsored scholarships, two other types of Merit Scholarship awards are being offered in the competition - corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2,500 Scholarships. Recipients of those awards were announced earlier in the spring. Another group of scholarship award winners will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2007 competition to about 4,600.
More than 1.4 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2007 Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, some 16,000 semifinalists were named on a state representational basis, in numbers proportional to each state's percentage of the nation's high school graduating seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than 1 percent of a state's seniors.
Naperville students named Merit Scholarship recipients
(http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/396930,6_1_NA23_MERIT_S1.article)
May 23, 2007
sun staff
A dozen students from Naperville-area high schools are among the 2,200-plus winners of Merit Scholarship awards, financed by colleges and universities they plan on attending, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Five Naperville North High School students received awards: John Sadlik and Nancy Jao, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Vuk Brajuskovic, from the University of Chicago; Linda Chen, from the University of Central Florida; and Paul Rice, from Hope College.
Four Neuqua Valley High School students received the award: Julia Ding, from the University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Koys, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Lin, from Washington University in St. Louis; and Katja Koshelev, from the University of Chicago.
Two Waubonsie Valley High School students received the award: Rebecca Hsu, from Northwestern University; and Ian Crane, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Douglas Mackin of Naperville Central High School received an award from Washington University in St. Louis.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from the finalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
These winners, which were announced today, are among about 8,200 distinguished 2007 high school seniors who will receive Merit Scholarship awards worth a total of $34 million for college undergraduate study. In addition to college-sponsored scholarships, two other types of Merit Scholarship awards are being offered in the competition - corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2,500 Scholarships. Recipients of those awards were announced earlier in the spring. Another group of scholarship award winners will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2007 competition to about 4,600.
More than 1.4 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2007 Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, some 16,000 semifinalists were named on a state representational basis, in numbers proportional to each state's percentage of the nation's high school graduating seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than 1 percent of a state's seniors.
