2 Great Neck Students Named College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners

Two Great Neck High School students are among 3,000 students nationwide who have been named College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship winners.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation made the announcement on Wednesday.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program Finalists who plan to attend their respective institutions.

About 184 higher education institutions, 106 private and 78 public, gave away Merit Scholarship awards through the National Merit Scholarship program.

These awards will provide the students $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution.

Great Neck scholarship winners include:

Albert Aboaf— of Great Neck North High School

• Probable career field: computer science

Michelle M. Yang— of Great Neck South High School

• Probable career field: undecided

Aboaf and Yang were both awarded the National Merit University of Chicago Scholarship.

About the institution:

The University of Chicago is small, private, coeducational, and residential; it has an international reputation for distinction. The college (3,425 undergraduate students) offers liberal arts training in over 60 areas; 3,100 students are enrolled in 4 graduate divisions and about 3,000 in 7 graduate professional schools. Since 1892, Chicago has drawn gifted students from around the world to its beautiful 165 acre campus and has offered unexcelled teaching and extensive library and research facilities.

Additional recipients of college-sponsored awards will be announced July 18, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship 2016 recipients to approximately 4,000. About 7,500 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $33 million by the end of the 2016 competition.

For more information about the National Merit Scholarship program, visit www.nationalmerit.org.