Area Students National Merit Semifinalists

Four students and two  students are among the 229 Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students named semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) for 2013.

Semifinalists are eligible to compete for 8,300 National Merit Scholarship awards worth $32 million, to be awarded in spring 2013.

Area semifinalists:

South Lakes High School: Kelsey Ericksen, Dara Kharabi, Adrienne Nims, and Scott Reid.

Herndon High School: Margaret Schaaf and Isaac Yampolsky.

Nationwide, approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2013. More than 1.5 million juniors entered the 2013 National Merit program by taking the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

For a complete list of FCPS semifinalists, click here.