23 Parkway Students Named 2012 National Merit Finalists

According to the , 23 Parkway students have been named Finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Following are the students named as finalists.

Dushyant Bhatnagar

Stefanie T. Shahan

Connie X. Shen

Heather D. Wilson

Jeffrey Zhao

Dylan J. Adams

Thomas L. Hack

Shawn Z. He

David Huang

Katherine S. Ihnat

Meagan A. McKinstry

Joshua H. Mo

Lee Remi

Dennis X. Zhu

Manali P. Gokhale

Adrienne M. Hunt

Timothy R. Tai

Keerthi Bandi

Will Gant

Andrew Kuehnle

Kimberly Lister

Adam Manders

James Wang

About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

Approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title and receiving either a National Merit $2,500 scholarship, corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship award or a college-sponsored Merit Scholarship award.

*The above information was provided by the Parkway School District in a news release.