MEDIA RELEASE

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

In September, Gregg and Wharton were notified 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 National Merit Scholarship Award winners.

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

Last year, Parker’s Kieran Najita was a Merit Scholarship Finalist. In the last three years, Parker has had six of the 10 Big Island finalists.

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