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Article: National Merit scholarships awarded
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 15, 1994
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The National Merit Scholarship Corp. last week announced the
nearly 2,000 winners of this year's National Merit college
scholarships. It was the second of three such announcements to be
made this spring by the National Merit Corporation, which is based in
Evanston, Ill. A total of 6,700 high-school students nationwide will
receive a total of $25 million in scholarships.
The National Merit scholarships are single-payment awards
distributed on a state representational basis, according to each
state's proportion of the US graduating senior class. Recipients
were chosen by a committee of college admissions officers and
secondary school counselors who evaluated information collected from
all ...