Local Student Wins Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of the first group of winners in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

A number of students from across New Jersey won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards, financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations and other organizations, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) said.

More than 1.4 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2015 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test and some 16,000 semifinalists were designated on a state-representational basis in September 2014.

Basking Ridge student Jeremy R. Mazumder was among those New Jersey students selected for a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship, the NMSC said.

Mazumder, a senior at Ridge High School, received a National Merit Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. scholarship, which provides a range of health care products for both prescription and over-the-counter markets. This scholarship is awarded to children of the employees of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. According to the NMSC, his probable career field is aerospace engineering.