Bus update for the week of March 1. Service suspended for: #5 – Pine Ridge, #5 – Central Middle/Central High, #6 – Northern Trails, #6 – Northern Middle/Northern High, #74 Knapp Forest, #74 – Eastern Middle/Eastern High, #75 – Central Woodlands, #75 – Central Middle/Central High. Service resumes for: #40 – Northern Trails, #40 – Northern Middle/Northern High, #65 – Thornapple, #65 – Central Middle/Central High, #72 – Knapp Forest, #72 – Eastern Middle/Eastern High, #93 – Pine Ridge, #93 – Northern Middle/Northern High.
All National Merit Semifinalists Named Finalists in Merit Scholarship Competition: Congratulations to These Seniors
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of the Finalists in the 66th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Of these 16,000 students nationwide, eight Forest Hills Public Schools students who originally were named National Merit Semifinalists have become Finalists. Thirteen students were named National Merit Commended Students.
To qualify for the National Merit Scholarship Program, students take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which serves as an initial screen of program entrants. About two-thirds of approximately 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT are named Commended Students. About one-third of the 50,000 high scorers are notified they have qualified as Semifinalists. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of the U.S. high school seniors and are designated on a state-representational basis as the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title. Congratulations to the following seniors.
National Merit Finalists
- Abbey Dinh (FHN)
- Lucas Matelic (FHC)
- Ethan Morello (FHN)
- Rachel Schenck (FHC)
- Annika Swanstrom (FHC)
- Noah Tyska (FHN)
- Siddharth Varma (FHN)
- Navya Yagalla (FHN)
National Merit Commended Students
- Jonah Cumings (FHC)
- Anna Fay (FHN)
- Valerie Greenwood (FHC)
- Olivia Harshman (FHC)
- Julia Kirkman (FHC)
- Anna Knee (FHN)
- Josephine Kock (FHN)
- Raleigh Kuipers (FHN)
- Lindsay Larson (FHC)
- Jon Millar (FHN)
- Tia Reid (FHN)
- Leo Treash (FHC)
- Mateo Vrooman (FHN)
