SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2019 September 12, 2018 Announcement

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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2019 NATIONAL MERIT? SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

September 12, 2018 Announcement

Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Public Information

Phone: (847) 866-5100 Email: mediainfo@ Website:

Advance: For release on Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Note to editors: Semifinalists in your state are listed alphabetically by city and high school following this press release.

This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names of Semifinalists; its use for any other purpose is prohibited.

Caution: Using numbers of Semifinalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or states will result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit? Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within a school, system, or state. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSC's website at .

Semifinalists in the 2019 National Merit? Scholarship Program

(Evanston, Illinois) Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship? award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar? title.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 410 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC's goals of honoring the nation's scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Steps in the 2019 Competition Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit

Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 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 highestscoring entrants in each state. 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 his or her high school 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? scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test.

From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.

National Merit Scholarships Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2019.

Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit? $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 230 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantor's employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2019 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join some 338,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

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ARKANSAS

AMITY OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY 619 Nieves, Lorensa C.

BEEBE BEEBE H. S. 501 Raymond, Thomas J.

BENTON BENTON H. S. 160 Dorman, Elizabeth J.

BENTONVILLE BENTONVILLE H. S. 999 Agnacian, Lilian S. 712 Berry, Solomon A. 450 Camacho, Malia S. 999 Ellgass, Samuel I. 907 Fogleman, Trevor R. 302 Krishna, Arjun 200 Sattler, Megan Y. 905 Shefchik, Mikayla D. 843 Taori, Khushi S. 121 Townsend, Maddox A.

HAAS HALL ACADEMY 999 Woodworth, Georgina L.

HOMESCHOOL 451 Sarkar, Katrianna E.

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY 999 Reader, Grant A.

BRYANT BRYANT H. S. 628 Beza-Juarez, Rachel 454 Mortensen, Charles L. 999 Weng, Kevin

CABOT CABOT H. S. 906 Tebbutt, Claire E.

CENTERTON BENTONVILLE WEST H. S. 457 Paul, Nayan R.

CONWAY CONWAY H. S. 302 Fleming, Hunter 160 Freyaldenhoven, Mary K. 200 Johnson, Jovoni O. 456 Moline, Kendon C. 773 Murray, Archer A. 999 Oudekerk, Abigail R.

FAYETTEVILLE FAYETTEVILLE H. S. 710 Bowen, Chloe A. 522 Crouch, Josephine F. 907 Ferguson, Cora L. 454 Gautam, Shirshak 836 Hall, James F. 169 Haller, Carson R. 300 Heck, Jackson P. 303 Ko, Albert Y. 459 Lefforge, Paul S. 204 Liu, Austin Q. 000 Matlock, Foster T. 628 Meng, Kexin 160 Peters, Ethan M. 467 Potter, Kyrie 600 Sharma, Sheil D. 522 Smith, Isaac 628 Walker, Spencer L. 943 Wolf, Brendan 628 Young, Grayson W.

HAAS HALL ACADEMY 454 Cluck, Seylor N. 902 Collyge, Nicholas C. 700 Dastugue, Caroline R.

999 Grisso, Garrett B. 999 Matalone, Josephine M. 168 Mehal, Hamaad W. 791 Nichols, Mollie R. 161 Riggs, Carson D. 455 Upchurch, Katherine N.

FORT SMITH SOUTHSIDE H. S. 628 Beallis, Ryan S. 999 Nguyen, Vinh H. 884 Riche', Madelene C.

GREEN FOREST GREEN FOREST H. S. 430 McMahan, Trinity

GREENBRIER GREENBRIER H. S. 600 Jerry, Braden P.

GREENWOOD GREENWOOD H. S. 830 Brixey, Julia K. 454 Denison, Abby 628 Merreighn, Tyler L.

HARRISON HARRISON H. S. CONVERSION CHARTER SCHOOL 455 Whitmer, Blake J.

HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR MATHEMATICS, SCIENCES AND THE ARTS 455 Astre, Andrew L. 185 Disney-McKeethen, Hazel S. 467 Jefferson, Blake D. 185 Kaye, Arthur A. 628 Kramer, Kendele J. 254 Ma, Jade 303 Raby, Noah B. 791 Stall, Rachel E.

LAKESIDE H. S. 257 McClanahan, Noah J.

JONESBORO THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO H. S. 678 Xu, Maggie

VALLEY VIEW H. S. 450 Roades, Sean A.

LITTLE ROCK BAPTIST PREPARATORY SCHOOL 970 Crook, Austin

CATHOLIC H. S. FOR BOYS 999 Bromley, Alexander C. 455 Fitz, Sullivan W.

CENTRAL H. S. 906 Boop, Keira G. 164 Han, Alexander 161 Kimbrell, Ross M. 999 Taylor, Katherine G. 461 Williams, Eric A. 167 Xiang, Grace 209 Xu, Michelle L.

EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 000 Bethel, Boyd 999 MacNicol, Kenzie B. 000 Martin, James 000 Strauss, Ethan D.

ESTEM HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL 999 Robertson, Hannah M. 742 Smith, Claudia C.

LISA ACADEMY 302 Durand, Elizabeth G.

LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 214 Abdulkhalik, Trinity A. 160 Blanscet, Caroline E. 836 DiLeo, Matthew T. 200 Hankins, Luke G. 162 Patty, Justin B. 999 Weiner, Luke M.

MOUNT ST. MARY ACADEMY 907 Manchester, Anna K. 600 Ureta, Agnes Rebekah D.

PULASKI ACADEMY 453 Black, Laurel C. 772 Churbanova, Genrietta E. 160 Ford, Elizabeth

MAGNOLIA MAGNOLIA H. S. 454 Guevara, Mariah G.

MALVERN MALVERN H. S. 302 Cowling, Nathan A.

MENA MENA H. S. 836 Thompson, Christopher M.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL ARKANSAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 200 Elder, Faith C. 712 McClanahan, Luke H.

OZARK OZARK H. S. 000 Faulkenberry, Isabella G.

PANGBURN PANGBURN H. S. 450 Free, Colby L. 000 Rice, Zenic I.

PARAGOULD PARAGOULD H. S. 454 Parker, Jackson C.

PEARCY LAKE HAMILTON H. S. 628 Erickson, Jordan C.

POCAHONTAS POCAHONTAS H. S. 164 Kingery, Taylor

ROGERS ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY 454 Hamby, Noah B.

PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 920 Jackson, Eli C.

ROGERS H. S. 454 Chatlani, Alisha A. 999 Skinner, Nathan P.

ROGERS HERITAGE H. S. 457 Siwiec, Adam R.

ROGERS NEW TECHNOLOGY H. S. 454 Priest, Dean B.

RUSSELLVILLE RUSSELLVILLE H. S. 161 Gwaltney, Lauren M. 950 Smith, Noah

SEARCY SEARCY H. S. 450 Benight, Jackson T.

SHERWOOD SYLVAN HILLS H. S. 451 Ponder, Andrew 451 Ponder, Jacob 185 Welch, Kyra R.

SILOAM SPRINGS SILOAM SPRINGS H. S. 619 Maxwell, Monia N.

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SPRINGDALE HAR - BER H. S. 455 Black, Jackson T. 450 Todd, Austin T. 185 Wagle, Sojas S.

WEST MEMPHIS WEST MEMPHIS H. S. 999 Skjefte, Michael

WHITE HALL WHITE HALL H. S. 303 Dady, Justin R.

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