LANSING, Mich. — Last week, officials from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Twenty students from Eaton and Ingham County High Schools made the list. Congratulations to these students on this accomplishment.
2021 National Merit semifinalists from the Lansing region include:
Dansville High School
Elizabeth R. Troia
East Lansing High School
Eliza N. Lane
Grand Ledge High School
Cooper J. Evans
Leslie High School
Chase S. Lewis
Okemos High School
Abigail V. Bartley
Riddhi Bhattacharya
Baran Demir
Jayden D. Elliott
Ravdeep S. Grewal
Fergal B. Hennessy
Eric J. Huang
Taerin Kim
Joonbum Lee
Sophia Lee Maxim
Q. Li Sophia
Y. Liu
Ian R. Loree
Rayan Mughal
Brighty Renli
Williamston High School
Ethan Egger
All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 7,600 National Merit Scholarship awards worth more than $30 million, to be awarded in spring 2021. More than 1.5 million juniors entered the 2021 National Merit program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as the initial screen of program entrants. Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2021: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships. Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2021.
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