Radnor High National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists All Advance

RADNOR TOWNSHIP, PA — All 10 Radnor High School seniors who were named as semifinalists have advanced to finalist standing in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Those RHS seniors are: Maya Casillas, Colin Cheshire, Jesse Conen, Shanti Hug, Brendan Hung, Richa Kuklani, Soo Min Lee, Dingmohen Li, Jane O'Grady, and Joshua Yoo, the Radnor Township School District announced today. They join approximately 15,000 high school seniors from across the United States and are eligible for some 7,500 scholarships worth more than $31 million.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation will announce the Merit Scholar designees in four installments in April, May, June, and July 2021.

About 1.5 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

To become a finalist, the semifinalist, and their high school had to submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provided information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.

A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

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