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Glenbrook South Student Earns 2024 National Merit Scholarship
Wednesday's announcement marks the third of four groups named National Merit scholarship winners for the 2023-2024 school year.
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GLENVIEW, IL — Local students are being lauded in the latest installment of 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program award-winners. On the third list of four announced for the 2023-2024 school year, a Glenbrook South student was named a recipient of the corporate-sponsored awards.
Jan S. Jedynak, of Glenview, is the winner of a scholarship from Vanderbilt University. His probable career field is academia.
These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship, according to National Merit.
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By the conclusion of this year's competition, National Merit Scholarship Corporation estimates more than 6,870 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $26 million.
The designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding finalists in the program.
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According to officials, the scholars were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by both the finalists and their high schools, including: academic record, which includes difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®); contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay written by the finalist; and a recommendation written by a high school official.
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