Four Springboro High School students have been named National Merit
Scholarship Finalists. Seniors Lindsey Coffin, Isaac Poplin, Hannah
Stumpfl, and Reese Warns are among 15,000 students to make it to
Finalist status in 2018.
Approximately 1.6 million juniors, at
the time, in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National
Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an
initial screen of program entrants. The
nationwide pool of Finalists, representing less than 1% of U.S. high
school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.
These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to
continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships
worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. To be
considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Finalists had to fulfill
several requirements. About half of the Finalists will win a National
Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
Three types
of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2018.
Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500
Scholarships that will be awarded on a staterepresentational basis.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2018 will be announced in four
(4) nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July.
These scholarship recipients will join more than 330,000 other
distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.