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Arlington Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced semifinalists for 2022 scholarships, including hundreds in Massachusetts.
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ARLINGTON, MA — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has selected 16,000 students from across the country as semifinalists in the 2022 program, including three from Arlington.
At the beginning of each school year, the NMSC reveals the students who will go on to compete for scholarships in the spring. About 7,600 of the original 16,000 semifinalists win scholarships.
The semifinalist round is determined by the results of the pre-SAT tests taken by about 1.5 million high school juniors nationwide during the previous school year. The list of semifinalists will be winnowed down to about 15,000 by early 2022, and around half of the finalists will win scholarships. Hundreds of students from Massachusetts were selected in the semifinalist round.
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Arlington High School students Victor Chen, Alessandro Drake and Katerina Shubochkin are semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship.
The scholarships awarded in the spring range in value, with the highest at $2,500.
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