{"id":35099,"date":"2024-03-19T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=35099"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:06:52","slug":"16-uhs-students-named-national-merit-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=35099","title":{"rendered":"16 UHS students named National Merit Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19327\" style=\"width: 332px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19327\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19327\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0c8ff542-1153-4c36-a182-f62b00b9d3d9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left to right<br \/>Back row: Michael Ta, Sreyas Sai, David Hendrix, Grace Jiang, Marguerite Richardson, Lilly Zhang<br \/>Middle row: April Chou, Esther Zhou, Cherry Wu, Emily Ran, Sreevarshini Yedida, Bridget Hoban<br \/>Front row: Adhavan Satish, Arjun Suryawanshi, Steffanie Jones, Luke Stokes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that 16 Unionville High School (UHS) students have been named National Merit Scholarship Finalists. The National Merit Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese students exemplify all standards of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District\u2019s Portrait of a Graduate. Not only do they excel academically, but they are also dedicated to their character and to making Unionville High School a school of excellence\u201d reflected Principal Dr. Amy Jenkins. \u201cWe congratulate them on this distinguished honor and look forward to witnessing their continued success as they embark on their next journey.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for scholarships in which students are first entered by taking the Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT). To be considered for a Merit Scholarship\u00ae award, Semifinalists must then fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. This includes providing information about their academic record, activities, leadership abilities and awards received.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists were selected from over 16,000 Semifinalists and at UHS include April Chou, David Hendrix, Bridget Hoban, Grace Jiang, Steffanie Jones, Emily Ran, Marguerite Richardson, Sreyas Sai, Adhavan Satish, Luke Stokes, Arjun Suryawanshi, Michael Ta, Cherry Wu, Sreevarshini Yedida, Lilly Zhang and Esther Zhou.<\/p>\n<p>National merit scholarship winners will be selected from all Finalists and without regard to gender race, ethnic origin or religious preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that 16 Unionville High School (UHS) students have been named National Merit Scholarship Finalists. The National Merit Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. \u201cThese students exemplify all standards of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District\u2019s Portrait of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,101],"tags":[12211,200],"class_list":["post-35099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-schools","tag-national-merit-scholarship","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35100,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35099\/revisions\/35100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}