Madison Student Earns National Merit Scholarship

MADISON, NJ — A student from Madison has been named a winner of the 2020 National Merit Scholarship, one of 650 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

Allison H. Nevias from Madison, received a Vanderbilt University Scholarship for 2020 to study economics. Vanderbilt was founded in 1873 and is named after Cornelius Vanderbilt who provided funds to establish the university. The university offers undergraduate programs in Liberal Arts, Music, Engineering, Education, and Human Development. Graduate programs are offered in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Business, Engineering, Nursing, Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy.

This final group of winners brings the number of 2020 National Merit Scholars to about
7,600. These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate
study worth a total of over $30 million. In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were offered—2,500 National Merit $,2500 Scholarships, for which all Finalists competed, and more than 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who met criteria specified by their grantor organizations.

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