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Five UCS seniors receive scholarships through prestigious National Merit program
Five UCS seniors have been named among the top U.S. graduates to receive scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Five Utica Community Schools seniors have been named among the top U.S. high school graduates to receive scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Elise Mi Soo Gertsch, Cameron Gudobba, Christina Li, Daniel Mathew and Stephen Ogden earned the scholarships after being named among the top one percent of high school students by National Merit.
Gudobba, Li, Mathew and Ogden are among only 2,500 U.S. high school students to earn National Merit scholarship. Gertsch was among approximately 1,000 U.S. students to earn the corporate-based scholarship the program.
To quality, the UCS students had to be among the approximately one percent of high school graduates to be named semifinalists by National Merit.
This year, 19 UCS students were named finalists by National Merit Program based on their performance in the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
The scholarships will be used to offset college costs for the UCS graduates. Gudobba will study Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago; Li will study Computer Science Engineering at Stanford University; and Ogden will study physics at Johns Hopkins University.
Gertsch, who was awarded the corporate scholarship through General Dynamics, plans to study at Brigham Young University.
