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| Southwest National Merit Finalists Samuel Orfield, Samuel, Shaheen, Celia Hallan, Jonah Shaw and Matthew Villalta |
Five outstanding Southwest students earned honors last week as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists: Samuel Orfield, Samuel Shaheen, Celia Hallan, Jonah Shaw and Matthew Villalta.
They are among about 16,000 high school seniors who will compete for about 8,000 National Merit scholarships worth about $35 million. The pool of semifinalists represents less than 1 percent of high school seniors nationwide.
About 1.5 million juniors from more than 22,000 high schools entered the program by taking the 2012 PSAT, which also is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Of the 16,000 semifinalists, about 14,400 are expected to advance as finalists in February. About half of the finalists then go on to win scholarships in awards to be announced in the spring.
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