CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Catholic High School announces that seniors Jamison Cox, Alexander Denton, Christopher Hoefling, John Meehan and Sophia Roper have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.
Nearly 1.6 million high school juniors from more than 22,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2020 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in the fall of 2018. Approximately 16,000 students have qualified as semifinalists, representing less than one percent of all U.S. high school seniors.
From this group of outstanding students, approximately 8,000 finalists will be named, and more than half of all finalists will receive either a Merit Scholarship or a Special Scholarship from a corporate sponsor. The winners will be announced between April and July. They will join more than 300,000 other distinguished students who have earned the National Merit Scholar title.
The National Merit Scholarship program was founded in 1955 to distinguish and honor academically talented American high school students and to encourage them to develop their talents and skills to the fullest. The competition is very rigorous, and scholarship winners are chosen based on their skills, abilities, extracurricular accomplishments and potential for future success.
— Carolyn Tillman