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Marina Del Rey Student Named as National Merit Scholar Semifinalist
She is among the 16,000 chosen based on their scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
MARINA DEL REY, CA — A Marina Del Rey student was named as this year’s National Merit Scholarship semifinalist, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday.
Miana Smith of Wildwood School is among the 16,000 chosen based on their scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Of those, only about 15,000 are expected to advance to the finalist level in February, and in February they will be notified of this designation. About half will win National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered next spring.
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The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
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