Eleven MHS Seniors are Merit Scholar Semifinalists

Eleven Millburn High School seniors have been selected as semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

They are Peter Baggaley, Emily Bary, Jeremy Bergman, Isaac Goldenthal, Clark Gredona, Maxine Janerka, Maria Khutoretsky, Erica Leh, Shweta Raghu, Alexandra Song and Qi Wang.

These 11 students may now be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, which will be announced in February 2011. To become finalists, the semifinalists must maintain a record of very high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.  They also must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes the student's self-descriptive essay and information about the semifinalist's participation and leadership in school and community activities.

More than 1.5 million juniors in nearly 22,000 U.S. high schools entered the 2011 National Merit Scholarship program by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.  The nationwide pool of 16,000 semifinalists includes the highest scoring entrants in each state, less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.