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April 24, 2009
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Kentridge Student Receives National Merit Corporate Scholarship
On Wednesday, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of the first group of winners in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. Kentridge Senior Carly L. Schnoebelen is a recipient of a scholarship, sponsored by The Boeing Company.
The Boeing Company supports Merit Scholarship awards annually for children of employees. The Merit Scholarship awards are a part of the Boeing Company's comprehensive aid to education program. Scholarship awards are $1,500 per year for a total of four years.
Over 1,000 distinguished high school seniors will receive corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 200 companies, foundations, and other business organizations. Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit
Scholarship competition and meet criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who are children of their employees, residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the grantor wishes to encourage.
Most of these awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $500 to $10,000 per year. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.
The corporate organizations funding these National Merit Scholarships represent nearly all sectors of American industry. Sponsors from the business community have underwritten awards offered in all 54 competitions, expending or committing more than $672 million to support the intellectual development of the nation’s scholastically talented youth.
2009 National Merit Scholarship Competition
More than 1.5 million juniors in over 22,000 high schools entered the 2009 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2007 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
In September 2008, some 16,000 Semifinalists were designated on a state representational basis, in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the nation’s high school graduating seniors.
Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of a state’s seniors.
To be considered for a National Merit Scholarship, Semifinalists had to fulfill requirements to advance to Finalist standing. In addition to submitting a detailed scholarship application, which included an essay describing activities, interests, and goals, Semifinalists had to have an outstanding
academic record; be endorsed and recommended by a school official; and earn SAT scores that confirmed their qualifying test performance. Some 15,000 Semifinalists met Finalist requirements.
By the conclusion of the 2009 competition, about 8,200 Finalists will be selected to receive National Merit Scholarships totaling nearly $36 million. Winners are the Finalist candidates judged to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
Established in 1955 to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program, NMSC is a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance. The majority of National Merit Scholarships offered each year are underwritten by some 500 independent corporate and
college sponsors that support NMSC’s efforts to honor the nation’s scholastic talent and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education.
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