National Merit Scholarship program announces additional awards to SC grads
July 14, 2010
MOUNT PLEASANT , SC – July 13, 2010 – Seventeen graduates from SouthCarolina’s public high schools are among an additional 1,900 awardwinners announced today by the NationalMerit Scholarship program.
The students recognized today have been granted scholarships financed bycolleges and universities. They join over 2,800 othercollege-sponsored award recipients who were announced in late May.
College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for upto four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing thescholarship.
This year 201 colleges and universities are sponsoring about 4,900 MeritScholarship awards. Sponsor colleges are located in 45 states and theDistrict of Columbia and include 120 private and 81 publicinstitutions.
Clemson University was sponsor for six of the additional scholarshipsannounced today. In addition to the 17 public high school winners,college-sponsored awards are going to six private school students andone home-schooled student in South Carolina.
This final group of winners brings the total number of 2010 NationalMerit Scholars to approximately 8,400, receiving scholarships worth atotal of $36 million for undergraduate study.
Competition for 2010 scholarships began when more than 1.5 millionjuniors in over 22,000 high schools took the 2008 PreliminarySAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which serves as aninitial screen of program entrants.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation is a not-for-profitorganization that operates without government assistance and was foundedin 1955 specifically to conduct an annual scholarship program. Themajority of scholarships offered each year are underwritten by 500independent corporate and college sponsors.
2010Recipients of Additional College-Sponsored MeritScholarships
LarissaJ. Brdar, ANDERSON
Probablecareer field: Chemical Engineering
T.L.HANNAHIGHSCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
SethM. Greenstein, CLEMSON
Probablecareer field: Medicine
D. W.DANIELHIGH SCHOOL
FurmanUniversity
CarrieJ. Frey, CLINTON
Probablecareer field: Music Performance (Viola)
GOVERNOR’SSCHOOL FOR ARTS & HUMANITIES
OberlinCollege
SooryaR. Avali, COLUMBIA
Probablecareer field: Bioengineering
SPRINGVALLEYHIGH SCHOOL
RiceUniversity
AllisonM. Day, COLUMBIA
Probablecareer field: Journalism
DREHERHIGHSCHOOL
EmoryUniversity
CharlesM. Hood, COLUMBIA
Probablecareer field: Medicine
IRMOHIGHSCHOOL
University ofSouth Carolina
MeredithP. Nix, COLUMBIA
Probablecareer field: Engineering/Physics
A.C.FLORAHIGHSCHOOL
University ofSouth Carolina
EllenC. Dowdell, ELGIN
Probablecareer field: Library Science
RIDGEVIEWHIGH SCHOOL
AuburnUniversity
JohnA. Absher, GREENVILLE
Probablecareer field: Engineering
JAMESL.MANNHIGHSCHOOL
Fur
manUniversity
HannahX. Chen, GREER
Probablecareer field: Medicine
RIVERSIDEHIGH SCHOOL
EmoryUniversity
KayleeA. Harrison, LEXINGTON
Probablecareer field: International Relations
WHITEKNOLLHIGH SCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
AndrewZ. Liu, MOUNT PLEASANT
Probablecareer field: Bioengineering
ACADEMICMAGNETHIGH SCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
IsleyM. Arruda, MYRTLEBEACH
Probablecareer field: Biomedical Engineering
ST.JAMESHIGH SCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
PhilipM. Coffey, ROEBUCK
Probablecareer field: Surgical Medicine
DORMANHIGHSCHOOL
WoffordCollege
BenjaminA. Chalmers, SPARTANBURG
Probablecareer field: Undecided
SPARTANBURGHIGH SCHOOL
WoffordCollege
LauraE. Haselden, SPARTANBURG
Probablecareer field: Medicine
SPARTANBURGHIGH SCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
BrendenC. Roberts, WEST COLUMBIA
Probablecareer field: Physics
LEXINGTONHIGH SCHOOL
ClemsonUniversity
