Glenbrook South Student Earns 2024 National Merit Scholarship

GLENVIEW, IL — Local students are being lauded in the latest installment of 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program award-winners. On the third list of four announced for the 2023-2024 school year, a Glenbrook South student was named a recipient of the corporate-sponsored awards.

Jan S. Jedynak, of Glenview, is the winner of a scholarship from Vanderbilt University. His probable career field is academia.

These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship, according to National Merit.

By the conclusion of this year's competition, National Merit Scholarship Corporation estimates more than 6,870 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $26 million.

The designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding finalists in the program.

According to officials, the scholars were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by both the finalists and their high schools, including: academic record, which includes difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®); contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay written by the finalist; and a recommendation written by a high school official.

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