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Elwood Names 2 National Merit Finalists
Brennan Finnegan and Rithika Narayan are among the top 15,000 students in the nation to be acknowledged for this prestigious recognition.
ELWOOD, NY — Brennan Finnegan and Rithika Narayan, seniors at Elwood-John. H. Glenn High School, were announced Tuesday as 2021 National Merit Scholarship Finalists, according to a news release.
They are among the top 15,000 students in the United States to be acknowledged for this prestigious recognition. The two will compete for roughly 7,500 available Merit Scholarships, totaling more than $30 million.
Brennan and Rithika are active members of the Elwood School District community and have
won several noteworthy accolades during their time at John Glenn High School. After graduation, Brennan is considering attending Stony Brook University to pursue a possible major in engineering and applied sciences. Rithika intends to study artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science in Pennsylvania.
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Brennan and Rithika both received Certificates of Merit from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation in February in commemoration of their outstanding academic achievements.
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