From The Press Citizen
Thirty-two students from area high schools have earned the honor of qualifying as a National Merit Semifinalist. The students, which include 17 from West High, 12 from City High, one each from Iowa Mennonite School and Mid-Prairie High, and a home-schooled student are among about 16,000 students nationwide to receive the recognition in the 56th annual contest by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. in Evanston, Ill. West High tied for the most semifinalists in the state with Ames, while City High was tied for second most with West Des Moines Valley.
They were selected from more than 1.5 million students in about 22,000 high schools who took the 2009 PSAT and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors. The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and include the highest-scoring entrants in each state, according to a news release.
About 90 percent of the national semifinalists will become finalists after they take the SAT and further apply for the award. Then, about half will be selected as winners. They will receive one of 8,400 awards worth a total of $36 million. The awards will be announced in the spring.
MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
City High: Razzi Abuissa, Stephen Chan, Charles Foster, Zachary S. Greimann, Ajay Gupta, Jeffrey Haidri, James B. Haight, Cameron J. Herting, Gabriel E. Lawson-Duck, Bryan D. Martin, John D. McCullough and Alic R. Szecsel.
West High: Kabir O. Abiose, Garrett A. Anstreicher, Bob C. Chen, Tianfang Dai, Sophie M. Donta, Jordan K. Gunning, Eunice F. Hsu, David Y. Huang, Kaspar K. Mueller, Julia A. O’Donnell, Lillian C. Oetting, Molly F. Parsons, Nathan D. Rossen, Alissa M. Rothman, Lydia V. Somers, Matthew J. Staib and Vivian L. Zhu.
Iowa Mennonite School: Taylor A. Fulton.
Mid-Prairie High: Dylan J. Hochstetler.
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