Metro Nashville Students Win Prestigious Honor In National Merit Scholarship Program

From the Metro Nashville Public Schools:

September 11, 2020

19 Metro Nashville Public Schools seniors have been named semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, a prestigious honor awarded to the top 1 percent of the nation’s high school seniors.

The MNPS students are part of a group of 16,000 semifinalists from across the nation selected from more than 1.5 million students who took the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Each of them is now eligible for selection as a finalist and ultimately could be named one of 7,600 National Merit Scholars based on “their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies,” according to a news release.

The National Merit Scholarships, which will be awarded in the spring, are worth more than $30 million.

The MNPS semifinalists are:

• Hillsboro High School: Sophie Tidwell
• Hillwood High School: Andrew Spencer
• Hume-Fogg Magnet High School: Javokhir Arifov, Leo Chang, Anna Chen, Oscar Field, Trent Jones, Iris May-Fleming, Grant Oxford, Garrett Scott, and Erika Wisby
• Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School: James Craddock, Sophia Hackett, Joshua Halevia, Joseph Hallum, Parwan Ahmed Machingal, Vishnu Pratap, Nancy Tennent, and Jacob Williams

MNPS congratulates each of these excellent students on their outstanding achievement.

This press release was produced by the Metro Nashville Public Schools. The views expressed are the author's own.