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Los Alamitos Unified School District Students Make Next Round for Merit Scholar
Four Los Alamitos Unified School District students have made it to the next round for Merit Scholarship as semifinalists. Here's who:
LOS ALAMITOS, CA — Los Alamitos, Calif., October 9, 2016 – The Los Alamitos Unified School District is proud to announce four National Merit Semifinalists and fourteen National Merit Commended Students for 2016-2017. The Semi-finalists are students who scored in the top 1% of students who took the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) nationwide in fall 2015. Commended students include those who placed among the top 5% of the more than 1.5 million students took this exam.
According to the National Merit Scholarship website, approximately 16,000 of the 50,000 high scoring students were notified in early September that they qualified as Semifinalists. An additional 34,000 students qualified as Commended Students. Recognized students are the highest scoring from each state.
Semifinalists 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.
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Los Alamitos High School National Merit Scholarship Competition Semifinalists:
- Anthony S. Han
- Jihyun Limb
- David H. Lu
- Maquelle Tiffany
Congratulations to all.
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Los Alamitos High School National Merit Scholarship Competition Commended Students:
- Gloria J. Choi
- Caroline K. DePew
- Lachlan R. Duncan
- Alexa F. Gomberg
- David A. Gordon
- Kendal M. Grossgold
- Owen M. Kaminski
- David R. London
- Grant D. MacDonald
- Minh-Thi Nguyen
- Thien-Nhi A. Nguyen
- Vivian K. Nguyen
- Selim Park
- Seth C. Segal
Photograph, Los Alamitos USD: National Merit Semi-Finalists (left to right): David Lu, Anthony Han, Jihyun Limb, and Maquelle Tiffany.
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