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Ten UCS seniors named National Merit finalists
Finalists are eligible to compete for approximately 8,000 Merit scholarships worth about $35 million in total
Ten UCS seniors are among 15,000 students nationally to be named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship program.
They are Amil Mahida and Dylan Plummer of Eisenhower High School; Jacob Burns, Saumeel Desai, James Montgomery, Katelyn Schram and Nicholas Weingartz of Stevenson High School; Marisa Hocking of the Utica Academy for International Studies and Trevor Macks and Alexander Will of Utica High School.
Burns, Desai, Mahida, Macks, Montgomery, Plummer, Schram and Weingartz also attend Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology.
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More than 1.5 million students in the class of 2015 entered the National Merit program by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
The ten UCS seniors were named semifinalists in September 2014 and have since met all the requirements to advance to finalist standing and compete for approximately 8,000 Merit scholarships worth about $35 million in total.
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Finalists are selected based on their PSAT/NMSQT scores and other factors including SAT scores, student essay, school recommendation and posting an outstanding academic record throughout high school. They comprise less than one percent of the nation’s high school seniors.
Each year, college-bound juniors complete the PSAT/NMSQT and are automatically enrolled in the National Merit Scholarship program, with approximately 15,000 advancing to become finalists.
