LANSDALE – The North Penn School District (NPSD) is proud to recognize the following 13 North Penn High School (NPHS) students who were named as semifinalists in the 62^nd Annual National Merit Scholarship Competition (NMSC):

Corson Chao

Andrew Gagen

Eli Heisey

Andrew Jia

Matthew Krise

Timothy Park

Joseph Urban

Kanishkan Variketta

Albert Wang

Joshua Whang

Brittany Wylie

Christopher Yang

Yang Yue

Out of the 1.6 million students who took the PSAT qualifying exam in October 2015, 16,000 are named semi-finalists in the country. Selected semifinalists represent less than one percent of high school seniors in the country. These academically talented high school seniors will now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for more than 7,500 available National Merit Scholarships worth more than $33 million. These students were selected based on the ability to show exceptional academic talent and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

The National Merit Scholarship Award recipients will be honored at a breakfast in late October. The date is yet to be announced. The North Penn School District is still waiting for this year’s list of commended recipients, which is scheduled to be released later this month. Once the district is informed, these additional student names will be announced as well.

For more information about these students or the National Merit Scholarship Competition, please contact NPHS Senior Class Assistant Principals Peter Nicholson at [email protected] or Amy Linn at [email protected]. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSC’s website at www.nationalmerit.org.

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