Four Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists
Among 16,000 Selected Nationwide
Four members of The John Cooper School Class of 2020 have been selected as Semifinalists in the 65th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Avery Nakahara, Sawyer Liner, Ellen Petersen and Wyatt Wright will continue in the competition for approximately 7,600 National Merit Scholarships, worth approximately $31 million, that will be offered next spring.
These Cooper students are among 105 members of Cooper’s Class of 2020. They are among 16,000 Semifinalists named from academically talented high school seniors from around the country by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
About 1.5 million juniors from more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test that serves as an initial screen of program entrants.
A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship®, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
The John Cooper School
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The John Cooper School is an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory day school. Our mission is to provide a challenging education in a caring environment to a diverse group of select students, enabling them to become critical and creative thinkers, effective communicators, responsible citizens and leaders, and lifelong learners.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
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