5 Stamford Students Named 2018 Merit Semifinalists

STAMFORD, CT — Some five Stamford students are among 16,000 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. The scholarship organization announced the names this week in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

The students named represent fewer than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

They have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship,earning the Merit Scholar® title.

Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 420 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC's goals of honoring the nation's scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

Here are the Stamford Semifinalists for 2018 (students are listed by the community where the school is located):

KING SCHOOL

• Perez, Nicholas C.
• Raker, Cameron S.
• Xu, Ashley J.

WESTHILL H. S.

• Coleman, John
• Matrullo, Julien

— Lanning Taliaferro, Patch Staff contributed to this report.

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