More Hudson Valley Students Win College Merit Scholarships

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced its final round of award recipients for 2018. It named about 550 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities, including a handful in the Hudson Valley.

These Merit Scholar designees join about 3,500 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June. 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 fi nancing the scholarship.

This year, 178 colleges and universities are sponsoring more than 4,000 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 100 private and 78 public institutions located in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

This final group of winners brings the number of 2018 National Merit Scholars to more
than 7,500.

These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of over $31 million. In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were off ered—2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships, for which all Finalists competed, and approximately 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who met criteria specifi ed by their grantor organizations.

SEE:

• Hudson Valley Students Named National Merit Scholars
  
• Hudson Valley Students Win Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarships
  
• Hudson Valley Students Win College-Sponsored Merit Scholarships

Named this week:

• Aidan B. O'Gara of Bedford Hills, Regis H. S., New York: NATIONAL MERIT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
• Cashen Diniz of Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings High School: NATIONAL MERIT RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIP
• Noah T. Hellum of Pelham, Pelham Memorial High School: NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP
• Emily A. Xue of Pelham, Pelham Memorial High School: NATIONAL MERIT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
• Allegra Beth Copland of Pleasantville, Pleasantville High School: NATIONAL MERIT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

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