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National Merit Scholarship Program names 14 SUSD seniors as semifinalists

Posted 9/21/20

Fourteen members of the Scottsdale Unified School District Class of 2021 are semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition.

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National Merit Scholarship Program names 14 SUSD seniors as semifinalists

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Fourteen members of the Scottsdale Unified School District Class of 2021 are semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition.

The seniors are among 16,000 of their peers nationwide to advance in the program that will disperse more than $30 million in college scholarships next year, according to a press release.

SUSD semifinalists  -

  • Arcadia High School: Calvin Eng, Maximilian Lunifeld, Mary McManus
  • Chaparral High School: Morgan Brophy, Montgomery Gibson, Alexandra Meng, Siddhant Saxena, Branden Yang
  • Desert Mountain High School: Sanya Agarwal, Joongho Auh, William Lace, Daniel Marchant, Danielle Sherman
  • Saguaro High School: Samuel Eckhardt

The SUSD students are eligible for the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program, the release said, because of their scores on the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test administered to more than 1.5 million high school juniors last fall.

To continue in the competition, the semifinalists must submit detailed applications including their academic records, information about their participation in school and community activities, examples of leadership, and a record of their employment history and honors or awards they received, noted the release.

Finalists will be announced in February 2021. Winners are publicized by the National Merit program in four monthly announcements that begin in April 2021.