Madison 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.

Local student Monica A. Young, of Madison High School, is the recipient of a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship. According to the NMSC, Young’s probably career field is mechanical engineering.

Young was selected for the National Merit Moody’s Scholarship. The Moody’s Foundation is a charitable foundation established by the Moody’s Corporation, the NMSC said. These scholarships are available for the children of employees of Moody’s Corporation and its subsidiaries.