IN Ross Township Winter 2017 | Page 45

N orth Hills High School seniors Jordyn Hronec, Giovanni Meiser, Connor Milavec and Neville Wolff have been named 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists. They represent four of the 16,000 students selected for the nationwide honor. A total of 15,000 seniors will be announced as Nat ional Merit Scholarship finalists in February and will have an opportunity to compete for one of 8,300 National Merit Scholarships. Nationwide, semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, and their ranks include the highest-scoring entrants in each state. National Merit Scholarship semifinalists account for one-third of the exam’s 50,000 high scorers. Seniors Erika DeGraef, Adyn Gallagher, Alexis Mandell, Shane Riley, Neil Wible and Greta Zewe were named Commended Students in the program. They are among only 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation to be recognized with this academic accolade and scored in the top 5 percent of entrants. The National Merit program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High t North Hills Seniors Recognized in National Merit Scholarship Program