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Thursday, May 28, 2009

National Merit Scholarship Program winners

Students in the eleventh grade also enter the National Merit Scholarship Corporation competition when they take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. This year, approximately 1.5 million students entered the competition. In February, about 15,000 semifinalists were notified that they advanced to finalist standing. Beginning in March and continuing through mid-June, approximately 8,200 finalists are being notified that they are winners of merit scholarships (which are college-sponsored, corporate-sponsored, or $2,500 National Merit Scholarships). This year, 15 students from our district made the list of finalists and two of those finalists have been selected to receive a Merit Scholarship Award.

Finalists

• Will Stark, Santa Barbara High School, will attend Whitman College.
• Jae Park, Santa Barbara High School, will attend UC Berkeley.
• Richard O’Dowd, San Marcos High School, will attend Cal Tech.
• Colin Barkley, San Marcos High School, will attend University of San Diego, majoring in the sciences.
• Daniel Inbar, San Marcos High School, and we understand that he may take some time off after graduation.
• Fiona Georgakis, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend Columbia University and major in biology.
• Jacob Kovacs-Goodman, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend Stanford and major in economics.
• Corinne Dorais, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend will attend Juanita College in Pennsylvania.
• Anna Nelson, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend UC Santa Cruz and study art.
• Alexander Pearson, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend UC Santa Cruz and study English.
• Lillian Preston, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend Virginia Tech and study architecture.
• Yidi Wang, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend UC Santa Barbara and study molecular biology.
• Isabelle D'Arcy, Dos Pueblos High School (post-high school plans not available).

Scholars

• Angela Dai, Dos Pueblos High School, will attend Princeton University in the fall. Angela has not yet decided on a major, but she is leaning toward math.
• Mark Skovorodko, San Marcos High School, will attend Westmont College and his probable career field is civil engineering.

[Updated May 29, 2009]