Hathaway Brown Student Receives National Merit Award

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH — Last week, the National Merit Scholarship (NMS) Foundation announced the final 900 students receiving college-sponsored scholarships through the program. The final batch of students join approximately 3,200 peers in receiving the awards. Among the 900 recipients are two Solon High School students, and one student from Chagrin Falls.

The scholarship awards range between $500 and $2,000 annually, for up to four years of undergraduate study at the college sponsoring the scholarship. More than 182 colleges are sponsoring NMS winners this year. (To stay up to date on local stories, subscribe to the Patch Shaker Heights newsletter. As news breaks and the story develops, you will be the first to receive updates from Patch.)

With the announcement of the final 900 scholarship recipients, the total number of NMS awards given out in 2017 has risen to approximately 7,500. The foundation will oversee the doling out of $32 million in scholarships to selected students.

Hailing from Chagrin Falls, Hathaway Brown's scholarship winner is Maddelana Chesler.

• Maddelana Chesler, Hathaway Brown School — Her probable field of study is environmental science. She received a scholarship from Vanderbilt University, in Tennessee.

In total, nearly 30 students from Ohio received one of the final 900 college-sponsored NMS scholarships.

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