A dozen Naperville-area high school seniors will receive $2,500 scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corp. They include:
Naperville North — Claire Liu, who plans to study film production; Rajvi Shah, medicine; Henry Xie, applied mathematics.
Naperville Central — Kevin Cheng, who plans to study physics; William Tong, law; Isabel Zhou, business.
Neuqua Valley — Aashka Dayal, who plans to study computer science; Kelly Hong, computer science; Sanjay Ganesh, medicine; Sophie Meng, computer science; James Rosenberger, economics.
Metea Valley — Divij Garg, who plans to study mathematics.
Waubonsie Valley — Joshua Chi, who study radiology.
Earlier this year, about 1,000 students were recipients of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards. On June 1 and July 11, about 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners will be named.
This year’s scholarship program began in October 2020 when high school juniors took the PSAT/NMSQT, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
Last fall, the highest-scoring participants in each state, representing less than 1% of the nation’s high school seniors, were named semifinalists on a state-representational basis.
More than 16,000 semifinalists continued in the competition. By the conclusion of the 2022 program, about 7,500 finalists will have earned the Merit Scholar title and received a total of nearly $28 million in college scholarships.
