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More National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

Patch received a request for the semifinalist lists for other schools that Palo Alto students attend.

Earlier this week Patch published the list of semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation competition for Castilleja School, and Gunn and Palo Alto high schools in Palo Alto.

But plenty of Palo Alto kids go to private schools in other communities. Patch reader Sue Kemp requested the lists for Menlo School and Sacred Heart, both in Atherton. The lists are below.

There are about 16,000 National Merit semifinalists, and the program expects about 15,000 of the students to advance to the finalist level, which will be announced in February.

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More than half of the finalists will go on to compete for a Merit Scholar title and portion of the National Merit Scholarship worth more than $32 million.

More than 22,000 high schools nationwide and about 1.5 million juniors entered the 2013 competition, which awards the honors based on “exceptional academic ability”, and “potential for success in rigorous college studies” the organization said in a statement.

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Schools and student names are listed in alphabetical order:

Menlo School
Abbott, Helena C.
Glazer, Caroline
Ha, Perry
Medberry, Priya
Parker, Maxwell H.
Shih, Tinyen H.
Walker, Cameron R.

Sacred Heart Preparatory School
Denton, Matthew P.
Howard, John P.
Meaney, Thomas J.
Thompson, Isabelle R.
Toole, Shannon K.

 

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