Twenty-eight Sarasota County students named National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists

On Thursday, Sept. 15, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of 16,000 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists.

Twenty-eight seniors from Sarasota County public high schools made the list and will have an opportunity to compete for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships.

According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, 1.5 million students in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 program. The pool of semi-finalists represents less than 1% of those who entered.

If selected as a finalist, students will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit Scholarships of $2,500, which are awarded on a state representational basis. In addition to these scholarships, finalists are eligible for about 1,000 corporate-sponsored scholarships if they meet the corporation’s specified criterion. Finally, about 200 colleges and universities are expected to offer about 4,800 Merit Scholarship awards to finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

This year’s Sarasota County semifinalists are:

Booker High School
Robert Eginton

Pine View School
William Asselstine
Anna Beatty
Caroline Bowman
Ann Brasacchio
Conor Davenport
Chloe Dietrich
Haley Eiffert
Jonathan Fischler
Andrew Foster
Jennifer Fryer
Matthew Gilson
Andrew Grass
Anthony Grebe
Maxfield Hayes
Rebecca Jannou
Marissa Korn
Alexandra Krongel
Thomas Marryott
Ryan McKinney
Kegan McNutt
Nicholas Pasternack
Kenneth Smith
Madison Spahn
Luke Tiner
Luke Winger

Riverview High School
Bailey Pecor
Joshua Timmons

Contact Eddie Kirsch at [email protected].