BY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
Fourteen New Mexico students were named Tuesday as winners of National Merit $2500 Scholarships, including three Academy seniors: Rosa Bieber-Stanley, Connor Spears, and Sarah Wang.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation pays for most of the single-payment scholarships, although some companies and foundations help sponsor some of them.
More than 1.5 million high school juniors from about 21,000 high schools applied this cycle, taking the PSAT/NMSQT, which served as the initial screen of entrants.
Less than 1% of applicants, or 17,000, are named semifinalists and of those, about 7,500 become finalists and earn the “Merit Scholar” title, program officials said in a news release.
