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The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced over 800 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities. These Merit Scholar designees join more than 2,900 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
This year, 149 colleges and universities are sponsoring approximately 3,700 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 77 private and 72 public institutions located in 42 states and the District of Columbia.
This final group of winners brings the number of 2024 National Merit Scholars to more than 6,900. These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of nearly $26 million. In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were offered—2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships, for which all Finalists competed, and about 770 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who met criteria specified by their grantor organizations.
East Cobb students include the following:
- Benjamin Priest, Walton HS: National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship. Probable career field: Computer Science
- Hunter J. Buchheit, Walton HS: National Merit Emory University Scholarship. Probable career field: Law
- Paul W. Trotti III, Pope HS: National Merit University of Georgia Scholarship. Probable career field: Information Systems Management
- Emma J. Webb, Walton HS: National Merit University of Georgia Scholarship. Probable career field: Chemistry
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- Wheeler student selected for summer NASA internship
- Pope salutatorian among National Merit Scholarship winners
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