The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced that seven Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) seniors were selected as 2016 National Merit Scholars. The seven Gwinnett students who join a growing list of students who continue to receive notification of scholarships are:
Grayson High School
Noah M. Wilson
Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Jonathan R. Jeffrey
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
Mountain View High School
Amy Catherine Jenkins
Probable career field: Medicine
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
North Gwinnett High School
Victoria S. Joshi
Probable career field: Mechanical Engineering (Robotics)
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
Parkview High School
Anima Shrestha
Probable career field: Neurosurgery
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
Lillian Wang
Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
Peachtree Ridge High School
Priyanka Desai
Probable career field: Consulting
National Merit $2,500 Scholarship
The National Merit Scholars are part of a group of distinguished students nationwide judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. As designees, they each receive a scholarship for $2,500.
The students were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists in the 2016 National
Merit Scholarship Program. The committee reviewed each students academic record including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions/leadership in school and community activities; an
essay written by the student; and a recommendation written by a high school official.
The competition began when more than 1.5 million students, who at the time were high school juniors, took the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as the initial screening for program entrants. The highest scoring participants in each state were then selected as semifinalists. From the semifinalist group, 15,000 met the very high academic standards and other requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.
