National Merit Semi-Finalists named from Winnetka, Glenview, Northbrook, Evanston, Skokie schools

Several North Shore high school seniors have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. The students are among more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. They will continue in the competition for more than 6,800 scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring. To qualify, more than 1.3 million juniors in 21,000 high schools took the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists represent less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors, the corporation said. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the […]