Medfield High School National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists

Editor's Note: the following was provided by Medfield High School. 

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.  Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 440 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

In the fall of 2012 about 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.

Recently, officials of the NMSC announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 59th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,000 National Merit Scholarships worth about $35 million.

Medfield High School Principal Robert Parga proudly announces that three senior students, Ji Soo Han, Charles Horan, and Rachel Thornton have been named as 2014 National Merit Semifinalists. We would like to congratulate these students, their parents and their teachers; this is a great honor and we are very proud of these students’ accomplishments!