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Merit Scholarships Given to Six Graduates from Alpharetta, Milton

Twenty-three more students from Fulton County high schools were named National Merit Scholars.

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. has announced that 23 recent Fulton County graduates were named National Merit Scholars. In addition to the prestigious National Merit Scholar distinction, these students earned National Merit scholarships from participating colleges.

Additional College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners:

Alpharetta High School
Elizabeth A. Carter
Naveena Karusala
Lauretta Y. Zhao

Milton High School
Hayden B. Arnold
James P. Nugent
Diana Xu

Centennial High School
Catherine Stephens
Jenny J. Wang

Chattahoochee High School
Caroline Guan
Thomas E. Pitzel
Jay A. Reynolds
Daniel S. Yoon

Johns Creek High School
Philip N. Barker
Jenny Di
Eunice H. Shin

North Springs Charter High School
Ilene M. Baker
Michael A. Hochman

Northview High School
Abhay Aluri
Harris L. Gu
Hanna Han
Aino V. Rainio
Roland Wen
Peggy Xu

This announcement brings Fulton’s total to 69 National Merit Scholars in the 2013 competition. Earlier in the school year, five students also were named National Achievement Scholars, a similar academic competition hosted by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. for African-American high school students.

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All of the students were first identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. They had a record of high academic performance, were endorsed and recommended by their school principal, and had earned high SAT scores confirming their earlier qualifying test performance.


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