Strongsville Student Wins National Merit Scholarships

Strongsville OH

12 July, 2021

12:17 PM

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STRONGSVILLE, OH — One Strongsville student is among the latest batch of National Merit Scholarship recipients. Ryan Joseph Anthony, who attends St. Ignatius High School, received a scholarship Tuesday to attend Case Western Reserve University. He intends to study chemistry. The latest round of scholarship recipients received between $500 and $2,000 annually, for four years, through their chosen college or institution. Students were selected from a pool of National Merit Scholarship finalists. Read more: National Merit Scholarship Winners: 60 Ohio Students Selected More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship when they took the PSAT/SAT and the program says that approximately 7,500 students will win scholarships in 2021. Semifinalist had to write essays detailing their extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions to become finalists.