10 Newtown Square-Area Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA – Numerous students public and private school students in the Newtown Square area have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

In total, 10 students attending schools in area made the list.

Episcopal Academy led the way with eight students earning the national distinction. Marple Newtown High School and Delaware County Christian School each had one.

See the full list of Newtown Square-area National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists below:

Episcopal Academy

• Abigail V. Hogan
• Schuyler G. Kresge
• Elias P. Lindgren
• Samantha S. Macrides
• Kathryn A. Munyan
• Emma J. Sargent
• Alexandra N. Sumner
• Joshua Y. Wang

Marple Newtown High School

• David X. Li

Delaware County Christian Academy

• Clarice R. Helfand

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 PSAT.

All semifinalists are eligible to receive 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth $33 million.

The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than 1 percent of high school seniors.

A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier performance on the PSAT.

From the approximately 16,000 semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to be named finalists. Three types of scholarship awards will be offered next year: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.

Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2018.

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