Vestavia Hills Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

VESTAVIA HILLS, AL - Becoming a National Merit Semifinalist means you are part of an elite group of high school students, as approximately 16,000 students from all over country are chosen. Vestavia Hills High School can claim 11 of those students this year.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation released its annual list of Semifinalists last week, and semifinalists at Vestavia Hills High School include: Colin Bamford, Rachel Bates, Cross Hogland, Bryce Hutchinson, Alison Levine, Nicholas Muscolino, Lauren Nelson, Sydney Nelson, Ritika Samant, Julia Stewart and Walter Zhang.

The Semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of the 1.6 million students who took the Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in 2018. (For more updates on local school news and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Patch morning newsletter.)

Finalists will be announced in early 2019. Those who earn Finalist honors will be eligible for approximately 7,500 scholarships worth more than $32 million, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Photo courtesy of Vestavia Hills City Schools