Thirty-seven high school seniors in Louisiana have captured scholarships so far as part of the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
These include winners announced Wednesday as well as five who were announced April 24.
More winners will be announced on June 5 and July 15. By the conclusion of this year’s competition, 6,870 students will have won National Merit Scholarships worth more than $26 million. They were selected from a larger group of 15,000 finalists and 16,000 semifinalists.
The New Orleans area, including the northshore, has 18 scholarship winners so far, while the Baton Rouge area has 10. Shreveport is next with three winners. Of the six remaining winners, three are from south Louisiana and three are from north Louisiana.
The scholarships announced Wednesday are a flat amount of $2,500 each and are being financed by the organizers of the National Merit scholarship program. The five scholarships announced April 24 are funded by corporations, and their value ranges from $1,000 to $10,000 a year.
The high school with the most seniors receiving National Merit scholarships so far is Baton Rouge Magnet High in Baton Rouge with six. No other high school in the state had more than two scholarship recipients.
Here are the Louisiana winners:
BATON ROUGE: Samuel X. Adjei, LSU Lab School; Veda P. Devireddy, Baton Rouge Magnet; Jennifer L. Lin, Baton Rouge Magnet; Samay S. Mirpuri, The Dunham School; Ahebwa Muhumuza, Episcopal High; Lucy M. Nguyen, LSU Lab School; Holly Han Phan, Baton Rouge Magnet; Sophia Ren, Baton Rouge Magnet; James B. Xu, Baton Rouge Magnet; and Louisa Y. Zhu, Baton Rouge Magnet.
BROUSSARD: Noah C. Darby, St. Thomas More Catholic High in Lafayette.
CHALMETTE: Alex K. Jorns, Chalmette High.
COVINGTON: Joseph M. Mire, St. Paul’s School; Rebecca Schock, Archbishop Hannan High; and Asha M. Torczon, Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India.
IOWA: London C. Frey, Iowa High.
KENNER: Unmesh Kumar Chakravarty, Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies in Metairie: and Dylan G. Rhoton, Brother Martin High, New Orleans.
LAFAYETTE: Shreay P. Patel, Lafayette High.
MANDEVILLE: William J. Coles, St. Paul’s School in Covington.
METAIRIE: Hailey N. Edwards, Mt. Carmel Academy in New Orleans; Kathryn Larkin Fine, St. Mary’s Dominican High in New Orleans; Erica J. Ingraham, Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Avondale; Ava McGoey, Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans; David A. Paul, Jesuit High in New Orleans; Charles V. Varisco; and Jesuit High in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS: Austin Geng, Ben Franklin High; Lillian G. Gorman, Isidore Newman School; Sarah L. Heebe, Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie; and Thomas J. Paige, Cate School in Carpinteria, California.
RAYVILLE: Brantley L. Martin, West Monroe High in West Monroe.
RUSTON: Thomas Bergin Rogers, Ruston High.
SHREVEPORT: Sophie Chen, Caddo Parish Magnet; Ruby Ellen Knoebel, Caddo Parish Magnet; and Hudson K. Roberts, C.E. Byrd High.
ST. ROSE: Ava C. Rockefeller, Destrehan High.
WEST MONROE: John W. Floyd, West Monroe High.
Email Charles Lussier at clussier@theadvocate.com and follow him on Twitter, @Charles_Lussier.
Thirty-eight high school seniors in Louisiana have captured scholarships so far as part of the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
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