Final 2023 National Merit Scholarship Winner From Napa Announced

NAPA, CA — The final list of National Merit Scholarship winners for 2023 was announced this month and it includes one Napa student. Daniel L. Theunissen, who graduated from Napa High School, received a scholarship from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering to study Mechanical Engineering.

He is among approximately 750 additional winners of scholarships nationwide financed by colleges and universities. These Merit Scholar designees join more than 3,000 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among
the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution.

According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, these college-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

This year, 153 colleges and universities are sponsoring over 3,800 Merit Scholarship
awards.

This final group of winners brings the number of 2023 National Merit Scholars to more
than 7,140 worth a total of nearly $28 million. In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other
types of National Merit Scholarships were offered—2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships, for
which all Finalists competed, and about 840 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for
Finalists who met criteria specified by their grantor organizations.