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5 AACPS Seniors Named Semifinalists In National Scholarship Competition
Five seniors from Anne Arundel County were named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition. These are the students.
![Seniors from these Anne Arundel County Public Schools are semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship: Broadneck High School, South River High School, Arundel High School and Crofton High School. South River High School is pictured above.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/24287450/20220916/103654/styles/patch_image/public/south-river-high-school-2___16103218669.png)
September 14, 2022
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that AACPS seniors Faith Karanja of Broadneck High School, Caleb Oh of South River High School, Aleah Dinmore of Arundel High School, and Rachel Mohammed and Christine Wang of Crofton High School were recently named on the prestigious list of achievers in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship competition.
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This year’s semifinalists were selected based on high performance on the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
A little more than 15,000 of the competition’s 16,000 semifinalists will advance to finalist status based on criteria such as academic record, recommendation by school principal, SAT/ACT performance, and participation and leadership in school and community activities. Finalists, who compete for about 7,2500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $28 million, will be announced in February.
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This press release was produced by Anne Arundel County Public School. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
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