6 Edina High School Seniors Win $2,500 National Merit Scholarships

EDINA, MN — Six seniors from Edina High School are among the 2,500 winners of National Merit Scholarships announced Wednesday.

Grace Everts, Madeline Howard, Karen Lee, Ananth Veluvali, William Walkley and Skylar Wang will each receive a $2,500 scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which runs the program.

The 2,500 scholarship winners named Wednesday were chosen from a group of more than 15,000 “outstanding” finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program, according to the organization.

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They were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who analyzed students’ applications, academic records and scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which students took as juniors in October 2020.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation several weeks ago named about 1,000 winners of corporate-sponsored scholarships, including 15 students from Minnesota, though none were from Edina.

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Corporate sponsors support scholarships for finalists who are children of employees, residents in the communities they serve or who plan to pursue an education in fields encouraged by the sponsor, according to the organization.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation plans to name about 4,000 additional winners in June and July. By the time all winners are announced, about 7,500 high school seniors will have won about $28 million in National Merit Scholarships in 2022, the organization said.

National Merit Scholarship Winners from Edina:

• Grace A. Everts — probable field: computer science
• Madeline G. Howard — pediatrics
• Karen S. Lee — medicine
• Ananth K. Veluvali — business
• William M. Walkley — finance
• Skylar R. Wang — international law

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