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ANDOVER, Mass.—The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced that three Phillips Academy students are among the approximately 1,600 students nationwide to be selected as semifinalists in its 42nd annual National Achievement Program. These students now have the opportunity to compete for approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards, worth about $2.5 million, that will be offered next spring.
The three PA students to be named as semifinalists are Daniel Bacon (Washington, D.C.), Mgbechi Erondu (Englishtown, NJ), and Edwin Kulubya (Marina Del Rey, CA).
The National Achievement Program was initiated in 1964 to honor academically able African American youth and to provide scholarships for undergraduate study. In the 41 annual competitions completed to date, more than 26,000 students have received Achievement Scholarship Awards worth about $83.5 million.
More than 130,000 juniors in nearly 21,000 U.S. high schools entered the 2006 National Achievement Program by requesting consideration in the program when they took the 2004 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Semifinalists represent the highest scoring entrants within designated geographic regions.
To become a finalist, and thereby earn the opportunity to become one of the 800 scholarship winners, the semifinalists must have an outstanding academic record throughout their high school years, be endorsed and recommended by their school’s principal, earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier qualifying test performance, and write a self-descriptive essay.
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