UPDATE: Members of Cooper's Class of 2016 Named National Merit Finalists
Five Seniors Move On to Finalist Status in National Merit Competition
Five members of the 106-member John Cooper School Class of 2016 who had previously been selected as Semifinalists in the 61st Annual National Merit Scholarship Program have moved on to Finalist status. Tristan Craig, Kevin Dural, Francisco Masuelli, Vaishall Pradeepkumar and Taylor Sloop will continue in the competition for approximately 7,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $32 million.
These Cooper students were among 16,000 Semifinalists named and represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. Semifinalists must fulfill specific requirements in order to advance to the Finalist level of the competition and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
Meredith Brus, Seth Dickens, David McDonald, Jack Parkerson, Richard Perry, Nicholas Ruffcorn, Zane Shah, Sydney Shannon, Ellen Teuscher and Hannah Weinstein were sent a Letter of Commendation and named Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended Students were recognized for their exceptional academic promise because they placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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