St. Charles North Student Receives National Merit Scholarship

ST. CHARLES, IL — A local student has been picked as a 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program award-winner.

In the third of four installments of winners for the 2023-2024 school year, Kathryn A. Kadyschuk of St. Charles received a National Merit University of Tulsa scholarship. Kadyschuk, a St. Charles North student, is planning to study surgical medicine.

By the conclusion of this year's competition, National Merit Scholarship Corporation estimates more than 6,870 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $26 million.

The designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding finalists in the program.

According to officials, the scholars were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by both the finalists and their high schools, including: academic record, which includes difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay written by the finalist; and a recommendation written by a high school official.