Westfield High School seniors Erin Clark, Samantha England, Lydia Hermann, James Kranich, Natalie Penry, Olivia Schwartz, Ethan SeRine and Gryphon Weintraut were recently named National Merit® Scholarship winners. This is a record number of National Merit® Scholarship winners for WHS.
The National Merit® Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. This year’s National Merit® Scholarship Program began in October 2018 when over 1.5 million juniors in approximately 21,000 high schools took the PSAT/NMSQT, which served as an initial screen of program entrants
Last September, WHS was notified that the Class of 2020 had 10 semi-finalists out of 16,000 nationwide. On June 3 and July 13, the National Merit® Scholarship Corporation will name additional winners.
By the conclusion of the 2020 program, about 7,600 finalists will have earned the “Merit Scholar” title and received a total of over $30 million in college scholarships.