The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has recognized ten Hammond students for the 2005 - 2006 academic year. Seven have been named Commended Scholars and the remaining three have attained a Semi-finalist status.
More than 1.3 million juniors in nearly 21,000 U.S. high schools entered the 2006
National Merit Program by taking the 2004 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The top 5% of the participating students were named Commended Scholars, with a total of 16,000 students qualifying as Semi-finalists.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship
award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements and advance to the Finalist level of the
competition. About 90 percent of
2006 Hammond NMSC
Semi-finalists
the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
"We are proud of the academic accomplishments of all our students at Hammond." says René Bickley, Director of College Placement. "To reach this level in the NMSC competition is a great achievement and we congratulate those students who have done so."
Merit Scholarship winners of 2006 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join
some 234,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
For more information about The National Merit Scholarship Corporation visit: www.nationalmerit.org
- Elizabeth Hope
- Mary Jones
- Katie Neuffer
2006 Hammond NMSC
Commended Scholars
- Ishan Dasgupta
- Alex Friedman
- Morgan Jones
- Rebecca Lowsky
- Beth McCarthy
- Connell Owings
- Kristin Winters
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has recognized ten Hammond students for the 2005 - 2006 academic year. Seven have been named Commended Scholars and the remaining three have attained a Semi-finalist status. 
