North Penn Student Awarded National Merit Scholarship

LANSDALE, PA — A North Penn student has been honored with one of the nation's preeminent and most selective scholarships.

Senior Esha Velaga was named a National Merit Scholar and will receive $2,500.

The winners were selected from a pool of 15,000 semifinalists which already represented less than one percent of all U.S. high school seniors. Some 1.5 million high school students enter hte program each year.

This award is funded by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, and is independent from other types of National Merit Scholarships, including the recently announced corporate-sponsored winners, and the forthcoming-college sponsored winners.

Two North Penn students were already named winners of the corporate sponsorships.

All told, the program will disburse around 7,140 scholarships and $28 million in scholarship money.