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Three Darien Students Named National Merit Scholarship Winners

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Two Darien High School students and another Darien student attending Greenwich Academy have been awarded $2,500 each for college tuition, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced. These Darien students’ scholarships were just announced:

Katherine Du — Greenwich Academy student — probable career field: undecided
Mila E. Escajadillo — Darien High School — probable career field: business
William T. Russell — Darien High School — probable career field: aerospace engineering

Scholarships were announced for a total of 33 students from Connecticut. Some National Merit Scholarships are financed by outside donors, often businesses, but all of the Darien students’ scholarships were financed directly from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s own funds, as were all but two of the Connecticut awards. The Darien students are among 2,500 scholarship winners announced Tuesday by the group, which announces each year’s winners at different times. Some scholarship winners were announced on April 19, and more winners are expected to be announced on June 7 and July 17.

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Thirteen from Darien High School Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists

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These 13 Darien High School seniors have been named National Merit Finalists, Principal Ellen Dunn announced:

Andrew Benz, Brendan Berrigan, Michael Borecki, William Brandon, Komal Dhull, Mia Dursht, Mila Escajadillo, John Hamson, Caroline Lacy, Gauri Misra, Samuel Pfrommer, Kristen Picard, and William Russell. The selection of approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 Finalists is now in progress; the scholarship winners will be notified in March. — an announcement from Darien High School

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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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Darien High Graduate Gets National Merit Scholarship Award

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The National Merit Scholarship Corp. on Monday announced 800 more scholarship winners around the country, including one Darien High School graduate who will be attending Tufts University. The National Merit Tufts University Scholarship was awarded to Kristen Moran. She joins other Merit Scholars from Darien High School announced earlier this year (the semifinalists were announced in February). The latest announcement of Merit Scholarship winners is made up of students selected by each college or university, which awards scholarships of between $500 to $2,000.

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Update: FOUR Darien Students Named National Merit Scholars

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Two Darien High School Seniors and two Darien residents attending Regis High School in Manhattan have been named National Merit Scholars, each winning an award for $2,500 in college tuition. One of the National Merit Scholars, Katie Tsui, was just named a Presidential Scholar. The others named are Chloe Zhou of Darien High School. At Regis, Andrew Aoyama and Charles Burke also are National Merit Scholars. Tsui is interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience; Zhou, in mechanical engineering; Burke, in finance; Aoyama, in the foreign service.

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Darien’s National Merit Scholarship Finalists Named

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Ellen Dunn, Principal of Darien High School, announced that the following five seniors have been named as Finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program:

Sarishka Desai, Kristen Moran, Claire O’Leary, Katie Tsui, and Chloe Zhou. The selection of approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 Finalists is now in progress; the scholarship winners will be notified in March. — an announcement from Darien High School

 

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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.”