The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) is proud to announce that 17 seniors have been identified as Semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Competition! This includes 1 student from Buena Vista Virtual, 1 student from Esperanza High, 9 students from Valencia High, and 6 students from Yorba Linda High.
In September, officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and more than half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.About 1.5 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of high school seniors across the nation, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2022 will be announced in spring 2022. These scholarship recipients will join more than 355,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title. Great job, PYLUSD seniors!
Buena Vista Virtual Academy NMSC Semifinalist (1)
Akash Shah
Esperanza High School NMSC Semifinalist (1)
Kenneth Nguyen
Valencia High School NMSC Semifinalists (9)
Neha Abbas
Kayla Cheung
Joshua Hockman
Xavier Macalalad
Lauren Mirhan
Elizabeth Park
Melody Sun
Tricia Tran
Nicole Xu
Yorba Linda High School NMSC Semifinalists (6)
Maria Bulis
Zhicheng Cai
Aryan Dutta
Ellen Kang
Rayhan Razzak
David Van Dyke
Seventeen PYLUSD seniors named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
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