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Six students named semi-finalists Maine South would like to send out congratulations to six of its seniors who have just been announced as National Merit Semi-finalists for the 1992 National Merit Scholarship Program. Thesemi-fmalisis from Maine South are: Carolyn Chandler, Dave Cook, Kristina DeCleene, Nathan Hultman, Imran Siddiqui and Tara Sindt. Last October, about one-million juniors across the nation look the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PS AT/NMSQT). Only about 15,000 students nationally, or one-half of one percent of the students in each state qualify as Semifinalists. The Semifinalists are those who have achieved the highest scores in each state, and they must now advance to the Finalist level of e competion in order to be considered for « : e approximately S26 million in Merit Scholorships, which will be awarded this coming spring. In order to qualify as a Finalist the student must meet a number of requirements. He or she must have an outstanding academic record, be strongly endorsed by their school, submit SAT scores that confirm his or her PS AT performance, and finally submit a scholarship application. This application includes a self-description, scholastic attainments, education plans and goals, and school
Maine South National Merit Semifinalists: Top from left:David Cook, Nate Hultman, Imran Siddiqui. Bottom: Carolyn Chandler, Kristina DeCIeence, Tara Sindt and community activities. Around ninety percent of the Semifinalist will qualify as Finalists. From this prestigious group of Finalists, the award recipients will be choosen. Three types of Merit Scholarships will be awarded to approximetly 6,100 Finalists. The three types include the National
Merit $2000 Scholarships, scholarships underwritten by corporations, foundations, and buisnesses, and awards financed by colleges and universities. Once again, we congratulate our six Semi-finahsts and wish them luck on their upcoming Finalist competition.
Maine East hosts this year's coliege night This year's Maine Township College Night is being hosted by Maine East High School, on Tuesday, September 24, from 7:00 until 9:00. As in past years, hundreds of schools are scheduled to send representitives. Colleges range from the prestigious Ivy League schools such as Harvard, to state universities, to local community colleges, including Oakton and Triton. "The variety of colleges attending this lyear will cater to the variety of needs of all the students." said Mrs. Virginia Feurer of the Career Resource Center. The rcpresentives of the colleges will be stationed mainly in Maine East's field house
and cafeteria. Several of the colleges have they will be going up. It is also very important also requested their own individual class- to them to note the quality of the courses taken. Indeed, they also check to see a dirooms. Besides college representives, there will verse, well-rounded course variety." When asked to comment how heavily also be two financial aid seminars to help answer the questions of affording a college schools weighed extra-curricular activities, she replided, "Colleges don't want to sec 24education. "Different colleges and recruiters will be hour students. They want to see some extralooking for different things in different curricular involvment, but academics is defiyears," says Feurer. "The items they almost nitely number on. S tale colleges do not look at always look for are the strongest possible extra activities." academic background, and the strongest posStudents from all three Maine schools sible senior year. The first thing recruiters do will be in attcdance, and the invitation is is look at the studenttfanscriptrecords. Then extended to all underclassmen who wish to they look at the trend of the grades; ideally attend.