McAuley Senior Named National Merit Semifinalist

Maeve O’Rourke, ‘16

Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School is proud to announce that senior Maeve O’Rourke, of Beverly, has been named a Semifinalist in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is a nationwide competition for recognition and awards conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. In each annual program, approximately 50,000 academically talented high school students are honored, but only 16,000 of them are named semifinalists.

Students qualify as Semifinalists based on their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Approximately 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to reach the finalist level, and will be notified by mid-February.

Maeve is an alumna of St. John Fisher. At Mother McAuley, she is a student ambassador and a member of the cross country team, the Math Macs team, the National Honor Society, the National English Honor Society and the Catherine McAuley Honors Scholars program.