6 LFHS Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

LAKE FOREST, IL - Six Lake Forest High School students and one student from Lake Forest Academy were named National Merit semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation on Wednesday.

Nationally, the organization announced approximately 16,000 semifinalists on Wednesday, all of which will have an opportunity to become finalists and then compete for about 7,500 National Merit scholarships worth about $33 million next spring.

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The ones selected here represent less than 1 percent of high school students nationally.

Students selected from LFHS were:

Kallin C. Hermann
Jayne Mai
Kelly M. Page
Madeline R. Smith
Michelle R. Thunder
John R. Zeemam

Samuel T. Zeng, a student at Lake Forest Academy, was also named a National Merit scholarship semifinalist.

In order for the semi-finalists to become National Merit finalists, they must submit a detailed application with information on school achievements, grades, involvement with school clubs and activities and test scores.

About 15,000 of the 16,000 are expected to become finalists. The ones selected will be notified in February.

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