These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for more than 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $35 million that will be offered next spring.
The National Merit Scholarship Program named 13 FHS seniors as Commended Students. A letter of commendation from FHS and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, was presented by the principal to each student.
The students include Julia M. Bradley, Christopher A. Cotter, Benjamin N. Cuadra, Carly R. Dillon, Reid M. Dingell, Charles P. Easterly, Emily L. Keller, Jessica M. Langdon, Samantha E. Miller, Frederick C. Patrick, Derek M. Schilling, Thuy D. Tran, and Patrick T. Westhoven.
About 34,000 Commended students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2008 competition for Merit Scholarship Awards, Commended students placed among the top five percent of more than one million students who entered the competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Friendswood High School has one student named in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
Joseph A. Street has been named in the program. The names of more than 1,600 Black American high school seniors who have been designated semifinalists in the 45th annual Achievement Scholarship. These academically talented students now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 800 scholarships worth more than $2.6 million to be awarded next spring.
Friendswood High School has seven students named as Honorable Mention into the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) for 2008-2009.
These students include Laura Betancourt, Christopher Cotter, Benjamin Cuadra, Aubrey Hildebrandt, Allison Piwetz, Lena Silva and Caroline White.
The NHRP was initiated in 1983 to identify outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students. This year, the HNRP is recognizing nearly 5,000 students selected from a pool of over 200,000 students who took the 2007 PSAT/NMSQT/PAA and identified themselves as Hispanic.
Although the College Board is not able to provide monetary awards, it is a prestigious recognition for these outstanding students. A list of recognized students is being distributed to subscribing four-year postsecondary institutions this month. This gives the students an opportunity to hear from colleges that are particularly interested in communicating with prospective students of Hispanic heritage.
All 30 students will be recognized at the October FISD School Board meeting. |
