2017 Merit Scholarships: Winner from Pearl River High School

PEARL RIVER, NY — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the last of this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners Monday. A Pearl River High School graduate is among the winners of college-sponsored grants.

• Zong Lam, Pearl River High School

The Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program.

This week's release was the fourth announcement of winners in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. On April 19, more than 1,000 recipients of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards were named, including 12 students from the Hudson Valley. On June 7 and July 17, some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners were announced.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution.

College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

This year, 182 colleges and universities are sponsoring more than 4,000 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 103 private and 79 public institutions located in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

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