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Students recognized by national award programs

Posted on Oct 18, 2005

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and Commended Scholars 

Seniors Sara Brennan and Alyssa Reyes were recently named National Merit Semifinalists, and Erin McGrath and Victoria Pennick have been designated Commended Scholars. 

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that high school students enter by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), a test that each year serves as an initial screen of more than 1.3 million entrants in nearly 21,000 U.S. high schools, and by meeting published program entry/participation requirements.

About 34,000 of the 50,000 highest scoring participants in the fall 2004 PSAT received commended status in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. 16,000 students nationally were named National Merit Program Semifinalists, representing the top scorers in each state.  From these students, 8,200 seniors representing less than one percent of each state’s high school seniors will be offered National Merit scholarships for college. 


National Achievement® Scholarship Program

Nicole Seawright, ’06 is one of 3,000 Black Americans out of the 130,000 who took the PSAT/NMSQT test in the fall of 2004 who scored in the top 5%. Her name is being referred to selected colleges and universities to honor her academic promise.

The National Achievement® Scholarship Program is an academic competition that provides recognition for outstanding Black American high school students. Black students may enter both the National Achievement Program and the National Merit® Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) and meeting other published requirements for participation. The two annual programs are conducted concurrently but operated and funded separately. A student's standing is determined independently in each program. 

National Hispanic Recognition Program

Alyssa Reyes, ’06 and Samantha Ritter, ’06 have been named National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars as a result of their PSAT/NMSQT scores and their academic averages.

The College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program identifies outstanding Hispanic high school students and shares information about these academically well-prepared students with subscribing colleges and universities. 

AP Scholar Awards

Eight 2005 graduates have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) Exams.

Five members of the Class of 2005 qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams:  Brittany Adams, Elizabeth Damm, Ellen Hewitt, Emily Marquardt and Caitlin Ryan. Three members of the Class of 2005 qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations, with grades of 3 or higher:  Gina Landini, Sarah Pelley and Jennifer Seabury.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school, and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the more than one million high school students in more than 15,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar.

Students took AP Exams in May 2005 after completing challenging college-level courses. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams.

The entire Lauralton community takes great pride in congratulating these outstanding students on their academic achievements.
 

 


 



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