Schools
Rockwood Scholars Recognized for Excellence
Seniors from Lafayette and Eureka High schools find out they are National Merit Scholar semifinalists.
Fifteen high school seniors have been recognized as National Merit Scholar semifinalists. They are among the 16,000 nationally of about 1.5 million high school juniors who took the 2010 Preliminary sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They represent about 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors.
- Christopher Dieckhaus
- James Huang
- Brandon Sprenger
- Connor Tinen
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- Elizabeth Denn
- Danielle Lamar
- Richard Lu
- Christopher Moody
- Eric Moser
- Dallin Robinson
- Tyler Romero
- Jay Shapiro
- Brandon Sinanan
- Deck Slone
- Jessica Zadoks
- Paroma Zaman
- Jacob Zerr
To advance to be a finalist, a student must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The student and a school official must submit a detailed application, which includes an essay written by the student.
Finalists compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships awarded. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored awards are provided as well. About 200 colleges and universities finance approximately 4,800 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards.
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Scholarships awards will be announced beginning in April.
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