[StonyPointEagle] 15 students National Merit Scholarship finalists

[Price, Ronnie (Ron)]

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Albemarle County Public Schools

NEWS RELEASE 
DATE: April 11, 2006 
CONTACT: Christy Sinatra, Communications Coordinator 
PHONE: (434) 972-4049 

15 Albemarle County High School Students Named Finalists in Competitive
National Merit Scholarship Program 

(ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Virginia) - Fifteen Albemarle County Public Schools
students have been named finalists in the 2006 National Merit
Scholarship Program and are in competition for Merit Scholarship awards.
High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT)
which serves an the initial screen of about 1.3 million entrants each
year. Albemarle County's 15 students are among 15,000 across the country
advancing to the finalist stage of the academic competition. 

Albemarle County high school students named 2006 National Merit
Scholarship Program finalists include: 

Albemarle High School 
Rachel Anderson 
Laura Aust 
Sydney Creutz 
Nicholas Deschenes 
Lenore Dukes 
Josh Ehlers 
Christopher Flynn 
Jeremy Kuhn 
Annabelle Mangan 
Susan Metallo 
Cullen Sinclair 

Monticello High School 
Forrest Elliott 

Western Albemarle High School 
Mary Baer 
Austin Raynor 
Michelle Wang 

The 51st Annual National Merit Scholarship Program will award
scholarships worth $33 million this spring. Approximately half of the
finalists will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners and assume the
prestigious Merit Scholar title. 

To advance from being a semifinalist to a finalist, students must have
an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be recommended by
the school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student's
earlier qualifying test performance. The semifinalist and a school
official must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes
a student essay and information about the student's participation and
leadership in school and community activities. All winners of Merit
Scholarship awards are chosen from the finalist group based on their
abilities, skills and accomplishments.

Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2006. Every
finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500
Scholarships. In addition, 300 corporations and business organizations
will underwrite about 1,100 corporate-sponsored scholarships for
finalists who meet their specified criteria. About 200 colleges and
universities are expected to finance about 4,600 college-sponsored Merit
Scholarship awards for finalists who will attend the sponsor
institution. 

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation will name Merit Scholarship
winners for 2006 in a series of announcements through July.

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