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Gregg, Wharton named National Merit Scholarship finalists

Aidan Wharton

Aidan Wharton

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Parker School has announceed seniors Paul Gregg and Aidan Wharton have advanced as finalists for a National Merit Scholarship Award.

In September, Gregg and Wharton were notified that each was one of about 16,000 national semi-finalists out of the 50,000 highest scorers of approximately 1.5 million high school students who took the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test) last year.

Now they have advanced to a group of about 15,000 finalists.

Gregg and Wharton will find out in March if they are among approximately 8,300 students who are selected as National Merit Scholarship Award winners.

Paul Gregg

Paul Gregg

The awards range from a $2,500 lump sum scholarship, to a variety of corporate-sponsored and college-sponsored scholarships.

Last year, Parker’s Kieran Najita was a Merit Scholarship Award winner.

In the last three years, Parker has had six of the 10 total Big Island finalists.

— Find out more:
www.parkerschool.net
www.nationalmerit.org

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