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Scotch Plains-Fanwood Students Are National Merit Semi-Finalists
Semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship were announced on Sept. 15. See the Scotch Plains and Fanwood winners.
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — Two Scotch Plains-Fanwood students, and 16 more at Union County schools have been named semi-finalists for the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.
The semi-finalists were announced on Sept. 15 and include approximately 16,000 high-school seniors that will go on to compete for the scholarships that will be offered next spring. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Program, about 95 percent of the semi-finalists will be named as finalists for the scholarship. Of those finalists, about half will win a scholarship.
The highly competitive scholarship and the semi-finalists represent less than 1 percent of all high-school seniors in the U.S. For each state, the number of semi-finalists is proportional to that state's percentage of the total graduating seniors in the country.
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Here are the Scotch Plains and Fanwood semi-finalists for the scholarship:
Academy For Allied Health Sciences
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- Grover, Sukhman
- Muchnik, Oliva H.
- Shao, Kevin M.
Academy For Information Technology
- Desai, Om A.
- Ghoda, Gyan A.
- Hui, Matthew
- Kang, Danielle
- Monga, Nirayka
Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional High School
- Phatak, Aditya T.
- Solsky, Victoria
Union County Magnet High School
- Chan, Adelene000 Gandhi, Devansh
- Jiang, Aaron P.
- Komperda, Izabella
- Liu, Grace J.
- Seewald, Joshua J.
- Wang, Cady G.
- Zhang, Victor Z.
Union County Vocational-Technical High School
- Aggarwal, Aditya
To become a finalist, the program explains that students and a high school official must submit a detailed application. The application must contain information about a student's academic record, leadership abilities, the honors and awards they've received and more.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2022 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July.
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