11 Lake Forest Students Among Semifinalists For 2022 National Merit Scholarships

LAKE FOREST, IL — Eleven students from local high schools were named semifinalists for college scholarships awarded by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

They include a trio of seniors from Lake Forest Academy and eight from Lake Forest High School — precisely the same number as qualified from each school last year.

The local students are among 16,000 semifinalists nationwide who qualified by achieving one of the state's highest scores on the 2020 Preliminary SAT, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

To make it to the finalist round in February, the students must submit an application with a recommendation from an official at their high school.

About 7,500 scholarships worth nearly $30 million will be awarded to finalists before the end of July 2022, according to the scholarship corporation, an Evanston-based nonprofit founded in 1955 to run the program.

Those merit scholarships include about 4,000 sponsored by colleges and universities, 2,500 sponsored by the nonprofits own funds and about 1,000 provided by corporations and business organizations.

Here are the semifinalists from the class of 2022 at high schools in Lake Forest:

• Brendan Q. Flaherty, Lake Forest Academy
• Kevin P. Forman, Lake Forest High School
• Ashwin Krishnaswamy, Lake Forest High School
• Chloe E. Lee, Lake Forest High School
• Siddhartha M. Ojha, Lake Forest High School
• Megan E. Parsons, Lake Forest High School
• Devin T. Radzely, Lake Forest High School
• Alexander L. Reznik, Lake Forest Academy
• Shaan Samra, Lake Forest Academy
• Andrew J. Terkildsen, Lake Forest High School
• Maxwell O. Yates, Lake Forest High School

Students will find out in February whether they make it to the finalist stage. The scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April.

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