Twelve District Students Named National Merit Scholars

	Rustin National finalists (l-r) Frances Wang, Amy Konsza, Peter Jin, Jennifer Liu, and Margaret Lister.

Twelve district seniors have been named finalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program – five from Rustin, four from Henderson, and three from East. These students were among the approximately 15,000 top scoring students nationwide in the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which they took as juniors last year.

In order to become finalists in this prestigious program, students are required to back up their PSAT/NMSQT scores with high scores in the Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs), have a record of consistently high academic performance in all courses taken in grades nine through twelve, be fully endorsed for finalist standing by their high school principal, and be planning to enroll in college full time in the fall.

Henderson National Merit finalists Ben Bellis, Katharine Luginbuhl and Jarey Wang (Kelcie Hillard not pictured).

Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are automatically entered into a selection pool for various scholarships to be announced in the spring.

National Merit Scholarship finalists from Rustin High School are Peter Jin, Amy Konsza, Margaret Lister, Jennifer Liu and Frances Wang. Henderson High School finalists are Ben Bellis, Kelcie Hillard, Katharine Luginbuhl and Jarey Wang. East High School finalists are John LaColla, Tiancheng Wang and Matthew Young.

East High School National Merit scholars Tiancheng Wang, John LaColla and Matthew Young.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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