Nine Allen High School seniors have been named as finalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Competition and one student has been named a finalist in the 2009 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Seniors Bethany Burke, Bethany Carson, Truc Do, Trevor Ede, Andrew Liu, True Price, Jessica Ray, Chelsea Smith and Yi-Jie Wang were named National Merit Finalists and Kaston Murrell was named a National Achievement Finalist for their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
All of the students were named semifinalists in September after ranking in the top percentile of more than 1.4 million students who took the exam. They were named finalists in their respective competitions by maintaining high academic performance and earning SAT scores that confirmed their earlier qualifying test performance.
National Merit Finalists are eligible to compete for one of some 8,200 awards, worth $34 million, beginning in March. Approximately half of the finalists will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners, earning the Merit Scholar title. National Achievement Finalists are eligible to compete for one of some 800 scholarships worth more than $2.6 million.
Additional information about the National Merit Scholarship program and the National Achievement Scholarship program can be found by visiting www.nationalmerit.org.
For more information, contact the Allen ISD Public Information Office at 972-727-0510 or e-mail public_info@allenisd.org.
