May 2013 update
More corporate scholarship winners have been announced.
- Nikita A. Sirohi, Issaquah High School
- Nitin H. Shyamkumar, Skyline High School
- Siddharth Murching, Skyline High School
- Andrew P. Smith, Skyline High School
April 2013 update
National Merit Scholarship Corporation officials have announced the names of winners in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Approximately 1,000 distinguished high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. More 2013 winners will be announced over the next few months.
Issaquah School District's Corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners are:
- Christine Rasquinha, Issaquah High School
- Jessica Guo, Skyline High School
- Sonya Ye, Skyline High School
September 27 update
Skyline senior Haley Smith has been named a semifinalist in the 2013 National Achievement Scholarship Program
Twenty-two seniors in the Issaquah School District were recognized in September as semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. They join a national pool of about 16,000 students, which represents less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, who became semifinalists by being the top scorers on the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).
These seniors now have the opportunity to continue in the competition to compete for 8,300 scholarships from colleges and corporate sponsors, worth a combined $32 million, that will be offered next spring. To become a finalist, a semifinalist must submit evidence of an outstanding academic and civic record in high school, be endorsed and recommended by the school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student's earlier test performance.
Scholarships are awarded to finalists based on their skill, accomplishments, and potential for success in college studies. Winners will be announced in four waves beginning next April and ending in July.
All sophomores and juniors in the Issaquah School District will have the opportunity in October 2012 to take the PSAT/NMSQT® during the school day in order to prepare them for the SAT and focus all students on post-high school education.
Issaquah's 2013 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists are:
- Veronica Austin, Liberty High School
- Carlene Chung, Skyline High School
- Jessica Guo, Skyline High School
- Braden Hahn, Issaquah High School
- Tiffany Han, Issaquah High School
- Alexander Hansen, Issaquah High School
- Zoey Kapusinski, Issaquah High School
- Allen Kim, Issaquah High School
- Michael Lee, Skyline High School
- Siddharth Murching, Skyline High School
- Diana Ning, Skyline High School
- Mary Peng, Skyline High School
- Viviane Poulain, Issaquah High School
- Christine Rasquinha, Issaquah High School
- Emily Repp, Issaquah High School
- Hunter Sapienza, Issaquah High School
- Nitin Shyamkumar, Skyline High School
- Nikita Sirohi, Issaquah High School
- Andrew Smith, Skyline High School
- Allen Wang, Issaquah High School
- Sonya Ye, Skyline High School