The National Merit Scholarship Corp. said Wednesday that 16,000 high school students nationwide have been named semifinalists in its 60th annual scholarship program, competing for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million. The semifinalists include students from several public and private schools in the Lake Norman area.
About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to be finalists, and more than half will win a shcoarhop, the corporation said.
About 1.4 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2013 Preliminary National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Semifinalists now must submit an application that lists their academic records, community activities, leadership abilities, employment and honors and awards.
Winners will be announced this spring and summer. Here’s a list of local semifinalists:
CANNON SCHOOL – Logan Foster
W.A. HOUGH HIGH SCHOOL – Via Savage, Sean Stewart
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF DAVIDSON – Adam Cosgrove
DAVIDSON DAY SCHOOL – James Rees
WOODLAWN SCHOOL – Meredith Simpson, Joseph Andry
NORTH MECK HIGH SCHOOL – Anika Agarwal
SOUTHLAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY – Austin Olivier
LAKE NORMAN HIGH SCHOOL – Christopher LaMack
NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH – Aaron Lucander, Blake Creighton, Uday Uppal
HOME SCHOOL-DAVIDSON – Martha Gerdes
HOME SCHOOL-HUNTERSVILLE – Harrison Seitz
See a full list of North Carolina semifinalists here (PDF)
