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Darien High School Has 13 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

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Thirteen Darien High School students have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists (see list below), and are among 16,000 nationwide, the national scholarship organization announced Wednesday. The semifinalists are eligible for 7,500 scholarships nationwide, with a total value of about $33 million, to be offered next spring, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced. Steps in the 2017 Competition
Becoming a Semifinalist

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2015 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. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

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Four National Merit Scholarship Award Semifinalists Applauded

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Four of Darien High School’s five National Merit semifinalist students were presented to the Board of Education at Monday night’s meeting and received praise from their principal and applause from the room.  

 

Darien’s five semifinalists are among 16,000 students who were named by the National Merit Scholarships organization out of 1.4 million students from 22,000 high schools across the nation who took the PSAT or some other qualifying test, Darien High School Principal Ellen Dunn told the board. “We are so proud of all of you,” Dunn told the students in a statement that ended with the room applauding them. “Not only for your scholarship but also because of who you are, because of the many contributions you make to our Darien High School. So we say congratulations to all of you and wish you the very best for the next stage of this process.”