Basking Ridge Student Wins College-Sponsored Merit Scholarships For 2022

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A Ridge High School student has earned the prestigious college-sponsored merit scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Competition for 2022, the organization announced.

Charles T. Corbett received a National Merit Boston University Scholarship. Corbett plans to study engineering at the university next fall.

Corbett is among more than 2,600 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

Officials at each of the sponsored colleges selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution.

The chosen students will be awarded between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

An additional group of Scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2022 competition to about 4,000.

Earlier this spring, NMSC announced the winners of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards which included a Basking Ridge student. Read More: Ridge Student Wins Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship

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