The Fulton County school system has announced that 145 students are semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
The scholastically talented high school seniors will now continue in the national competition for more than 7,400 merit scholarship awards, worth approximately $32 million.
Announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, this is the first round of competition for students seeking to be named a National Merit Scholar and receive the scholarship money associated with it. Finalists will be named in the winter, and the scholarship winners will be announced in the spring.
The students were identified through high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. As semifinalists, the students now must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist round. They must have a record of high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school leadership, and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.
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