14 Hudson Valley National Merit Scholarship Winners Announced

Pearl River NY

02 June, 2021

11:03 AM

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HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The next group of 2021 National Merit scholarship winners include 14 high school students from the Hudson Valley. These winners of National Merit college-sponsored scholarships are among the more than 3,100 announced nationally this year to receive between $500 and $2,000 scholarships from colleges and universities across the country, the National Merit Scholarship Corp. said in a news release Wednesday. National Merit Scholarship winners in the latest round include: Kyle R. Chang, Ardsley High School. Probable career field: Computer Science. NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIPErin C. Blake of Bedford. Fox Lane High School. Probable career field: Music Composition. NATIONAL MERIT INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON SCHOLARSHIPPeter M. Wu of Blauvelt. Tappan Zee High School. Probable career field: Mathematics. NATIONAL MERIT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPDina R. Millerman of Chappaqua. Horace Greeley High School. Probable career field: Environmental Science. NATIONAL MERIT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPSophia O. Kottman of Cold Spring. Haldane High School. Probable career field: Undecided. NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPAdam Oppenheimer, Hastings-on-Hudson High School. Probable career field: Physics NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPJacob M. Prisament, Hastings-on-Hudson High School. Probable career field: Engineering. NATIONAL MERIT FRANKLIN W. OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIPSara S. Chuang of Katonah. Somers High School. Probable career field: History. NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPGregory C. Gold of Larchmont. Mamaroneck High School. Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering. NATIONAL MERIT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPMatthias S. Lai, New Paltz Central High School. Probable career field: Journalism. NATIONAL MERIT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPCalvin S. Walker of Rhinebeck. Choate Rosemary Hall. Probable career field: Entrepreneurship. NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPAlexandre I. Friedman, Scarsdale High School. Probable career field: Undecided. NATIONAL MERIT TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPWesley G. Miller, Eastchester High School. Probable career field: Academia. NATIONAL MERIT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPLauren E. Kitts, Yorktown High School. Probable career field: Medicine. NATIONAL MERIT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP An additional group of college-sponsored National Merit scholars will be announced in July, the scholarship corporation said. This group is part of the approximately 7,500 National Merit scholarship winners who will be selected by the end of 2021. National Merit scholarships via corporate-sponsored awards and the corporation's own $2,500 scholarships were announced earlier in the spring. SEE: 36 Hudson Valley Seniors Win 2021 National Merit Scholarships6 HV Students Win 2021 Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarships More than 1.5 million juniors nationally entered the 2021 National Merit scholarship program when they took the 2019 preliminary SAT/National Merit scholarship qualifying test, the corporation said. About 17,000 semifinalists, fewer than 1 percent of the country's high school seniors, were announced last fall. Semifinalists had to write an essay and detail their extracurricular activities, awards and leadership positions to become a finalist. About half of the 16,000 finalists will be merit scholars by the end of the year, the corporation said.