Northwest Catholic Home to Two National Merit Finalists

Last fall the National Merit Scholarship Program released the names of this year’s National Merit Semifinalists. Northwest Catholic seniors Michael Foster of Wethersfield and Meghan O’Shea of West Hartford were among the elite. On February 11, both Michael and Meghan learned that they have been officially named Finalists.

Michael and Meghan now qualify to be recipients of one of 7,500 Merit Scholarships. Next month the National Merit Scholarship Program will announce which college-bound students will receive a portion of its $31 million scholarship fund, money provided by hundreds of businesses and universities who share NMSC’s goals of recognizing the nation’s most academically accomplished.

Over 1.6 million students in more than 22,000 high schools across the country entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test), also known as NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test). The pool of Semifinalists is comprised of less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Northwest Catholic High School congratulates Michael Foster and Meghan O’Shea as well as all the National Merit Finalists across Connecticut and the U.S.

Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford is a diverse, Catholic, co-ed, college preparatory community, educating the whole person — mind, body, spirit, and imagination since 1961. Learn more at northwestcatholic.org.

Pictured: President & Head of School Christian Cashman, Director of School Counseling Joyce O’Rourke, Counselor Betsy Quinn, Michael Foster ’19, Meghan O’Shea ’19, Counselor Mary Jo Foran