THREE MISD STUDENTS NAMED NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
Three Mansfield ISD students are among the less than 1 % of high school students in the country to be named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program .
Congratulations to Jeremy Jennings and Vincent Nguyen from Lake Ridge High School and Dylan Luong from Mansfield High School on this prestigious achievement .
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and $ 28 million in college scholarships . Semifinalists were selected based on their top scores on the 2022 Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test ( PSAT / NMSQT ).
Out of more than 1.6 million entrants nationwide , only 16,000 students are selected as semifinalists . In February
2024 , 15,000 of those students will be named finalists . About half of those finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship worth thousands of dollars .
Pictured from left are Dylan Luong from Mansfield High School , and Vincent Nguyen and Jeremy Jennings from Lake Ridge High School .
Finalists must have an outstanding academic record , an endorsement by a high school official , write a compelling essay , and possess SAT scores that confirm the student ’ s performance on the qualifying test .
The National Merit Scholarship Program was founded in 1955 to identify and honor scholastically talented American youth and to encourage them to develop their abilities to the fullest .
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