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Winston Churchill High School Students Compete For National Merit Scholarships

How many students qualified as semifinalists this year?

It’s a new school year, which means a whole new group of students competing nationwide for National Merit Scholarships.

Winston Churchill High School has 11 students competing for a $2,500 prize, as semifinalists for the 2013 National Merit scholarship, according to a Montgomery County Public Schools release.

The students are:

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  • Catherine M. Conway
  • Christopher B. Gauch
  • Andrew P. Haskins
  • Colin J. Kincaid
  • Jessica Chi Lee
  • Felix Li
  • Nikita Markovych
  • Neil G. Shekar
  • Maeve K. Tobin
  • Sara Y. Wang
  • Alyssa K. Weiss

These students, along with 126 other Montgomery County public school students, were among the top scorers on the 2011 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in the nation. Maryland has a total of 323 semifinalists this year.

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