Sixteen students in Shreveport and Bossier City are semifinalists in the 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, and twelve of the honored students attend Caddo Magnet.
This year 16,000 high school seniors nationwide are competing for 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million.
The Caddo Magnet semi-finalists are:
Margaret S Caruthers
Michael S. Dai
Olivia F. Dossett
Maureen E. Fitz-Gerald, .
Christian P. Hennigan
Maysa M. Kaskas,
Michelle A. Khare,
Jake D. Noble
Catherine E. Pool,
Audrey L. Richardson
Allison R. Tunnell
Rachel K. Young
More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists, which represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, include the highest-scoring students in each state.
To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that reflect the student's earlier performance.