Nine Glenbrook North Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

NORTHBROOK, IL — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation Wednesday announced nine Glenbrook North High School students are semifinalists for its scholarships in the class of 2020. The semifinalists are among approximately 16,000 high-school seniors nationwide who are set to compete for fewer than 7,000 scholarships of up to several thousand dollars due to be awarded next spring.

Over 90 percent of the semifinalists will be named as finalists for the scholarship, according to a release from the Evanston-based National Merit Scholarship Program. Of those 15,000 finalists, about half will win a scholarship.

More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship by taking the 2018 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualification Test, which provides an initial screen of entrants.

The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of all high school seniors in the U.S. For each state, the number of semifinalists is proportional to that state’s percentage of the total graduating seniors in the country.

Here are the nine semifinalists for the scholarship among Glenbrook North's class of 2020:

• Alexandra N. Chertok
• Sebastian E. Klein
• Benson E. Mitsevich
• In Hyeok Oh
• Rujuta K. Pandit
• Daniel L. Rogoff
• Samuel S. Shin
• Jeffrey Sun
• Yuming Wang

To become a finalist, the program explains that students and a high school official must submit a detailed application. The application must contain information about a student’s academic record, leadership abilities, the honors and awards they’ve received and more.

In the class of 2019, 15 Glenbrook North seniors were named semifinalists. On the other side of District 225, the number of semifinalists at Glenbrook South fell from 12 last year to 10 in the class of 2020.

Students will find out in February whether they make it to the finalist stage. The scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April 2020.

Earlier:

• 15 Glenbrook North Students Named 2019 National Merit Semifinalists
• Two Glenbrook North Seniors Win National Merit Cash Scholarships
• Trio Of Northbrook Students Named National Merit Scholars
• 7 Glenbrook North Students Awarded College-Sponsored Scholarships

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