Three York Seniors Named National Merit Finalists

Submitted by Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205.

Elmhurst, IL - The National Merit Scholarship Corporation program has recently determined which of the 16,000 Semifinalists named in September 2015 have met all requirements to advance to finalist standing in the competition.

Three York Community High School seniors named as National Merit Semifinalists this fall were recently confirmed as NMSC Finalists.

They are: Kathryn “Julia” Dierksheide, Robert Tomaska and Natasha Yarlagadda.

These three students will be honored by proclamation of the Elmhurst District 205 Board of Education at its April 12 meeting.

A Certificate of Merit from the NMSC was presented to the finalists when they were honored at York’s National Merit Scholars, National Merit Commended and Illinois State Scholar Leaders Recognition Breakfast, held last in March.

All NMSC Finalists will be considered for National Merit Scholarships to be offered in 2016. The selection of some 7,400 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 finalists is now in progress. Scholarship winners will be announced in four groups from April through July.