Article: National Merit scholarships awarded

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 ...

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