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May 26, 2006
ANDOVER — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has announced that Daniel Bacon ’06 has been selected as winner of a National Achievement $2,500 Scholarship. In total, NMSC awarded approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards, worth some $2.5 million.
The National Achievement Program was initiated in 1964 to honor academically able African American youth and to provide scholarships for undergraduate study. 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).
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