Harriton Student Wins National Merit Scholarship

BRYN MAWR, PA — A Harriton High Schooler has been named a winner in the latest round of National Merit Scholarship awards.

More college-sponsored scholarship winners were announced recently by the National Merion Scholarship Corporation.

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.

Among those chosen was Harriton High School's Leo Perlstein.

Perlstein, of Villanova, earned a National Merit Tufts University Scholarship.

He plans to study economics at the Boston university.

Perlstein is among more than 7,200 awardees.

These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of nearly $28 million.

In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were offered—2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships, for which all finalists competed, and about 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who met criteria specified by their grantor organizations.