18 seniors receive National Merit recognition

by Juanita I.C. Traughber, communications director

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. applauds 18 percent of USN seniors for top PSAT scores.
Four University School of Nashville seniors are among the Semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
 
Patrick Chickey, Alice May, Conor Rork, and Barbara Xiong were selected from the pool of students who took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. As Semifinalists, they represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and are among the highest scoring entrants in Tennessee.

These academically talented students have an opportunity to submit detailed applications with their academic record and community activities along with an essay and recommendation letter to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships awarded in the spring.

Commended seniors are Jackson Arnold, Zachary Babat, Zachary Bressman, Gavin Clark, Kate Deegan, Louisa Friedman, Sam Hotchkiss, Puja Jagasia, Corry Ke, Dhruv Khetarpal, Sam Kingsbury, Henry Rieniets, Camilla Townson, and Trudy Zou.
 
The National Merit Scholarship Corp. is a nonprofit organization providing scholarships underwritten by funds from the nonprofit, businesses, and higher education institutions that share its goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
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