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Radford High School student named National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist

Mountain Media, LLC by Mountain Media, LLC
September 25, 2023
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Dawson Martin, a student at Radford High School, has been named a semi-finalist for a National Merit Scholarship.

Scholarship officials recently announced the names of more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. 

“These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered next spring,” NMSC announced. 

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. 

“The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state,” NMSC announced. “The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.”

To become a Finalist, the semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

 

Radford News Journal staff report

 

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