2 Wauwatosa East Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

WAUWATOSA, WI — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced more than 3,200 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities Wednesday. Two Wauwatosa East students earned the rare honor today! One is headed to the University of Alabama, the other to Fordham.

These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

More than 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Last fall, approximately 16,000 Semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each stat, representing less than 1 percent of the nation’s seniors.

Here are Wauwatosa's Scholarship Winners:

Michaela J. Lonski

Probable career field: Marine Biology

WAUWATOSA EAST H. S., WAUWATOSA

NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOLARSHIP

The University of Alabama offers over 150 undergraduate and 85 graduate majors through 12 divisions. A resident student body of some 18,000 comes from across the nation and over 60 foreign countries. The university has many innovative learning programs, a Law Center, a School of Mines and Energy Development, a College of Engineering, and a College of Commerce and Business Administration. Student activities center around some 300 organizations including fraternal groups, student government, and service organizations.

Charlotte A. Utschig

Probable career field: Translation

WAUWATOSA EAST H. S., WAUWATOSA

NATIONAL MERIT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

Fordham, New York City's Jesuit University, offers a distinctive educational experience, characterized by the rich Jesuit tradition of education, in the 'capital of the world.' Fordham has three residential campuses: green and Gothic Rose Hill; Lincoln Center, in the cultural heart of Manhattan; and Marymount, in historic Tarrytown, NY. The distinguished faculty is committed to challenging each student to excel, and the low student-faculty ratio of 11:1 ensures individual attention. Fordham offers more than 65 majors.

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