Four Chaparral Seniors Recognized as 'Commended Students' by National Merit Scholarship Program

PHOTO: Chaparral High School seniors recognized as Commended Students by the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program are (left to right): Weston M. Kelliher, 17; David H. Hasegawa, 17; Amy K. Pai, 17; and Hank C. Wang, 17; CREDIT: David Carlson

The following was submitted for publication on behalf of Chaparral High School:

Four members of the Chaparral High School Class of 2015 have been recognized for exceptional academic promise, as demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the qualifying test used to determine National Merit scholarship finalists. CHS seniors named Commended Students by the 2015 National Merit® Scholarship Program are David Hasegawa, Weston Kelliher, Amy Pai, and Hank Wang.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation conducts the program for academically talented seniors. About 34,000 commended students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2015 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Founded in 1955 to conduct the annual Merit Scholarship competition, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation is a privately financed, not-for-profit corporation that operates without government assistance. The organization announced its semifinalists earlier this fall, and commended students were just recently named.