Dulaney Student Named National Merit Scholar

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — A Dulaney High School student has won a National Merit Scholarship, according to Baltimore County Public Schools.

Meera A. Rothman of Dulaney High School will receive the $2,500 award from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. She is interested in a law career, school officials said, and was among three students from Baltimore County Public Schools selected for the award.

Olivia A. Banks of Perry Hall High School and Quinton T. Davidson of Eastern Technical High School were also named National Merit Scholars, school officials reported Wednesday.

The Baltimore County trifecta won scholarships sponsored by the not-for-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation, along with about 2,500 high school seniors across the country named National Merit Scholars.

The organization honors scholastically talented youths. To screen entrants for this year's awards, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation used the 2015 Preliminary SAT (PSAT). The corporation reported that approximately 1,600,000 juniors took the PSAT that round.

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