National Merit Scholar From Walnut Named

Walnut, CA — The next group of 2021 National Merit Scholarship winners include one high school students from Walnut

The National Merit winners from The Webb School of California is among the more than 3,100 announced nationally this year to receive between $500 and $2,000 scholarships from colleges and universities across the country, the National Merit Scholarship Corp. said in a news release Wednesday.

Thordar T. Han from Walnut was named one of the winners of the 2021 National Merit Scholarship. Han will graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton and will study neuroscience when he attends the University of Southern California.

The National Merit winners announced this week will have their scholarships funded by the colleges and universities that they will attend. One hundred and sixty colleges and universities — including 85 private and 75 public schools — took part in the merit scholarship program in 2021.

An additional group of college-sponsored National Merit scholars will be announced in July, the scholarship corporation said. This group is part of the approximately 7,500 National Merit scholarship winners who will be selected by the end of 2021. National Merit scholarships via corporate-sponsored awards and the corporation’s own $2,500 scholarships were announced earlier in the spring.