Los Alamitos Unified Announces National Merit Scholar Semifinalists

LOS ALAMITOS, CA — The Los Alamitos Unified School District received confirmation this week that four seniors have been named National Merit Semifinalists for 2016-2017.

"Semi-finalists are students who scored in the top 1% of students who took the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) nationwide in fall 2015," Tina Dingillo, Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and Board of Education of Los Alamitos Unified School District stated in release. "This puts these students in an elite academic group."

Semifinalists will advance to Finalist standing in the competition by meeting high academic standards and all other National Merit Scholarship Competition requirements.

These requirements include:

• plans to enroll as a full-time college student in the fall of 2017
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status
• endorsement by their high school principal
• and a record of consistently high academic performance throughout high school.

"Although Commended Students will not continue in the 2017 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, these students are among the elite in their school, county, state, and nation," Dingillo said.

Los Alamitos High School National Merit Scholarship Competition Semifinalists:

• Anthony S. Han
• Jihyun Limb
• David H. Lu
• Maquelle Tiffany

Photo, courtesy Los Alamitos Unified School District: Left to right: David Lu, Anthony Han, Jihyun Limb, and Maquelle Tiffany