{"id":9500,"date":"2017-09-21T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:10:36","slug":"thirty-seven-national-merit-scholarship-commended-students-four-national-hispanic-scholars-identified-at-valencia-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-seven National Merit Scholarship Commended Students, four National Hispanic Scholars identified at Valencia High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">The week of September 15, Valencia High School principal, Olivia Yaung, announced that 37 Tigers have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\nAbout 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2018 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2018 competition by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VHS Commended Students:<\/strong>\u00a0<b>\u200b<\/b>Alex Behura, Russell Buhler, Verna Chang, Evan Chase, Matthew Choi, Matthew Cuan, Ishani Desai, Akshat Donti, Ethan Frisone, Nathan Garcia, Ju Han, Paige Harakuni, Inaaya Hassan, Ryan Hon, Digvijay Jani, Ji Yoo Jeong, Jason Keung, Jin Seo Khang, Nathaniel Kim, Nicholas Krohn, Saw Kyaw, Michael Lee, Grace Nguyen, Jacob Pan, Justin Park, Alton Ru, Tyler Sanders, Ishaan Shah, Mitali Shah, Riya Shah, Spencer Valenti, May Wang, Samantha Won, Joshua Wong, Ashley Yoo, Ethan Young, Chanson Zhao<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">In addition, VHS was also\u00a0proud to learn that\u00a0four seniors,\u00a0Edward Fletes, Max Garcia, Avery Olivar, and Sandy Pantoja,<b>\u00a0<\/b>were selected as <strong>National Hispanic Scholars<\/strong> in the 2018 National Hispanic Recognition Program.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">The National Hispanic Recognition Program recognizes the top 2.5% among Hispanic and Latino PSAT\/NMSQT test takers in the nation. In addition to a qualifying PSAT score, students must earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher by the middle of their junior year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\nGreat job, Tigers!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of September 15, Valencia High School principal, Olivia Yaung, announced that 37 Tigers have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1638,1639,1640,1637,1629,13,1504,1503],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-commended-students","tag-national-hispanic-recognition-program","tag-national-hispanic-scholars","tag-national-merit-scholarship","tag-national-merit-scholarship-corporation","tag-valencia-high-school","tag-valencia-tigers","tag-vhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}