By Nell Gluckman, BDN Staff
Posted July 14, 2014, at 4:22 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — Ten high school students from Maine have been named recipients of the National Merit Scholarship, one of the country’s most prestigious scholarship programs, according to a statement released by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation on Monday. That brings the total number of recipients from Maine to 33. The other 23 scholarship recipients were announced in April and May.
The winners were selected from a nationwide pool of 16,000 semifinalists who scored high enough on the 2012 Preliminary SAT to be considered for the award. The statement said that 1.5 million high school juniors took the exam.
The scholars receive between $500 and $10,000 annually or a one-time $2,500 award toward their undergraduate study. There are three different types of awards: college-sponsored awards that are funded by the schools the award recipients choose to attend; corporate-sponsored awards, where companies fund awards for the children of their employees, residents of the communities where the company serves or students who plan to pursue a career in that company’s field; and National Merit Scholarship Corporation-sponsored awards, scholars who are selected by a committee.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation cautions against using the award to compare high schools, saying the program “honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies” and does measure the quality of schools.
Our congratulations to Jesse Amar!
