Six Moorestown High School Seniors Qualify for National Merit Scholarship Semifinals

Six Moorestown High School seniors are semifinalists in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Steven Ai, Saylor Brisson, John Matthews, Maia Mirchandani, Jessica Mui, and Olivia Saouaf are among the approximately 16,000 competitors pursuing roughly 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million. The scholarships will be awarded in the spring.

About 1.4 million juniors took the 2013 PSAT/NMSQT which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors qualified as semifinalists. They are the highest scoring entrants in each state.

Students must now submit a detailed scholarship application which includes their academic records, activities, leadership roles, employment, honors, and awards. The students must possess outstanding academic records and the endorsements of school officials. They must also write essays, and earn SAT scores, which confirm the earlier performance on the PSAT/NMSQT.

Finalists will be announced beginning in April.

The attached photo was provided by Moorestown High School.