Two Fort Bend ISD high school students were recently announced as corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship winners.
They are Elkins High School student Carson Padilla who listed video game design as his likely field of study in the future, and Clements High School student Kavya Vaidyanathan who listed law as her probable field of study.
The esteemed National Merit Scholarship Corporation announces four separate groups of winners each spring and summer with scholarship funding coming from different sources. Today’s announcement includes students whose funding is coming from corporations.
Padilla’s scholarship is funded by commercial property insurer Crum and Forster and Vaidyanathan’s scholarship is funded by engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation.
The amounts of the awards are not disclosed by the National Merit Scholarship organization but can range from $1,000 to $10,000 with most awards set to renew for up to four years of college.
The second announcement of scholarship winners is expected on May 8, 2024, the third announcement will come on June 5th and the final group of winners will be announced on July 15th.
High school juniors entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). This served as the initial screening. In September 2023, more than 16,000 semifinalists who were identified as the highest scorers were designated from across the nation. They make up less than one percent of all senior high school students in the country.
To become a National Merit Scholarship winner, semifinalists had to complete a detailed application, which included writing an essay, plus providing information about their extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also had to be recommended by a high school official and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirmed their high performance on the 2022 qualifying test.
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