8 Northville Students Named National Merit Finalists

Eight Northville High School students have been named National Merit Finalists.

They are among 15,000 students who were selected from a pool of 16,000 Semifinalists nationwide in September 2011, according to the National Merit Scholarship Program's (NMSP) website.

In total, there are 16 National Merit students. That number includes semifinalists and commended students as well as finalists. In 2011, there were 27.

Finalists

• Nick Adamowicz
• John Desilva
• Yuchen Guo
• Patrick Huang
• Gina Kim
• Michelle Mueller
• Mohit Rathi
• Catherine Yang

Semifinalist

• Richard Wang

Commended

• Joseph Chou
• Anastasia Morin
• William Price
• Emily Rencsok
• Cayla Rhodes
• Aaron Ta
• Alice Xu

About the National Merit Scholarship program

The NMSP is an academic recognition competition that began in 1955. Approximately 1.5 million students enter the scholarship program each year, with about one percent of those students ultimately being named finalists.

These students are the highest scoring entrants in each state and meet high academic standards, along with other requirements. Finalists qualify for the National Merit Scholarship.

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring. All finalists compete for one of the 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships. Those are awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards come from more than 240 corporations and business organizations for finalists who meet their specified criteria. Approximately 200 colleges and universities also finance some 4,800 Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.