15 VHHS Seniors Are National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists

VESTAVIA HILLS, AL — Fifteen Vestavia Hills High School students have been named semi-finalists for the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.

The semi-finalists were announced on Wednesday and include approximately 16,000 high-school seniors that will go on to compete for the scholarships that will be offered next spring. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Program, over 90 percent of the semi-finalists will be named as finalists for the scholarship. Of those finalists, about half will win a scholarship.

More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship and the semi-finalists represent less than 1 percent of all high-school seniors in the U.S. For each state, the number of semi-finalists is proportional to that state’s percentage of the total graduating seniors in the country.

Here are the Vestavia Hills High School semi-finalists for the scholarship:

• Mallory C. Barry
• Laura R. Cunningham
• Kyuna H. Kim
• Robert C. Laughlin
• Jack Y. Lin
• Eileen A. Liu
• Isabella M. Lloyd
• Shane A. Mackey
• Caroline E. Magee
• Jacob Moore
• Andrew T. Precise
• Benjamin J. Reynolds
• Daniel R. Turner
• David Wang
• Amanda R. Wilson

Students will find out in February whether they make it to the finalist stage. The scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April 2020.