Eleven CSISD Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Eleven College Station Independent School District (CSISD) seniors were named semifinalists in the 57th-annual National Merit Scholar Program the National Merit Scholar Corporation announced today.

CSISD National Merit Semifinalists:
Franco Bettati
Kyle Campbell
Alexander Carstens
Dustin Frye
Minpeng Li
Austen McDougal
Karen McVay
Erin Mitchell
Lutong Wang
Glenn Welch
Dean Zhu

The 11 CSISD students are in a pool of approximately 16,000 semifinalists nationwide and are competing for 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth up to $2,500 each. About 90% of the semifinalists are expected to be named finalists and of those, around half will win a National Merit Scholarship and earn the prestigious Merit Scholar title.

More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 U.S. high schools entered the 2012 scholarship program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.

Scholarship winners for 2011 will be announced in a series of press releases beginning in April and concluding in May.

For more information about the National Merit Scholarship Program, please visit www.nationalmerit.org.

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