Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

Collierville High School is pleased to announce we have 14 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists this year: (alphabetically) Jocelyn Chen, Veda Chennupati, Guy Featherstone, Owen Feng, Sharon Fong, Harrison Hannah, Deanise Hatamosa, Sehoon Kim, Kalyana Kottapalli, Aditya Pathak, Andrew Pearson, Sanchayi Srivastava, Sathiya Thiagarajan, and Maitri Vijayanand. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding students!