Today, National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the first group of winners in the 67th annual National Merit Program.
A Southeast High School senior is among 1,000 recipients of a corporate-sponsored scholarship award. Congratulations!
Alexander Aldama-Apodaca, PepsiCo Foundation Scholarship
Interested in studying Computer Programming
Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.
The award will provide annual stipends ranging from $1,000 and $10,000 per year, and are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients may use their awards an any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.
Corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners announced today are part of the distinguished group of nearly 7,500 high school seniors who will receive National Merit Scholarships for college undergraduate study worth more than $28 million.
Seven high school seniors from Manatee County’s traditional public schools were named National Merit Scholarship Finalists. Winners will be announced through July 2022.
High school juniors entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Last fall, more than 16,000 Semifinalists were designated for being the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one-percent of the nation’s seniors.