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Growing enrollment at our state schools is important to achieve that. Those students who go to Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University tend to say in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is in the Top 5 in terms of bridges, Stitt said.

See STITT, Page 4

Casady’s 12 Merit Semifinalists all on to Finalist status

The National Merit Scholarship Program has now determined which of the 16,000 Semifinalists named in September 2022 met all requirements to advance to Finalist standing in the competition and all 12 of Casady's Semifinalists have become Finalists.

Those students are William Bankhead, Connor Evans, Peter FitzSimons, Jonathan Hedrick, Michelle Huang, Julia Janknecht, Jenna Jiang, Alex Midyett, Stephen Shafer, Joshua Siatkowski, Olivia Wang, and Grayson Wileman.

The selection of some 7,250 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 Finalists is now in progress.

The National Merit Scholarship Program “honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies.” The National Merit Scholarship Program began in 1955 as an See CASADY, Page 13