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3 Waukesha Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

Three students in the Waukesha School District have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.

The students are:

  • Britta Brinkmann and Claire Howard; Waukesha North
  • Sarah Giordano; Waukesha West
The finalists will be announced in February and the winners will be announced in April. Eight thousand National Merit Scholarships, worth about $35 million, will be awarded next spring.

About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and more than half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 440 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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