2 Summit Students Awarded National Merit Scholarships

SUMMIT, NJ — Two Summit students were awarded National Merit Scholarships.

One Summit student was awarded Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarships and three awarded the National Merit $2,500 Scholarships. The corporate-sponsored scholarships are financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations and provide annual stipends that range from $500 to $10,000 per year.

Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners:

1. Christopher J. Kelser, of Summit and student of Summit High School, received the National Merit MetLife Foundation Scholarship. He says his probable career field is undecided.

Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met criteria of their scholarship sponsors. Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.

One Summit student also received a National Merit $2,500 Scholarship, which are financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

National Merit $2,500 Scholarship Winners:

1. Ashley M. Rosenberg, of Summit and student at Academy Health Sciences in Scotch Plains, says her probable career field is Medicine.

This $2,500 award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds. National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners are the Finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. These Scholars were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by both the finalists and their high schools.

More than 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 16,000 semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.

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