These academically talented high educate seniors now have an opportunity to act in the competition for about 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards worth over $34 million that will be offered next spring.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship allocate. Semifinalists must advance to the Finalist aim of the competition by fulfilling several requirements. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to bring home the bacon Finalist standing and about half of the Finalists ordain be selected as Merit Scholarship winners earning the Merit Scholar title.
More than 1.4 million juniors in nearly 21,000 U. S high schools entered the 2008 Merit Program by taking the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test which served as an sign check of program entrants. Semi-finalists are the highest scoring entrants in each express and represent less than one percent of the express’s graduating seniors.
To become a finalist a semifinalist must have an academic preserve of very high performance be endorsed and recommended by the educate principal and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier qualifying test performance.
Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in the spring of 2008. Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National be $2,500 Scholarships. In addition about 1,100 corporate-sponsored scholarships will be provided by some 300 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria. In addition about 200 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,600 college-sponsored be Scholarships awards for Finalists who ordain attend the sponsor institution.
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