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Merit Scholarship nominees honored The Tustin Unified School District Board of Education honored the following students at its Oct. 14 meeting: Michelle Brownstein, Andrew Folick and Robert Jennings, seniors, Foothill High School; and Joce lyn Richard, senior, Tustin High School, for being named 2003 National Merit Scholar ship semifinalists by the Na tional Merit Scholarship Cor poration. — More than 1.3 million juniors in over 20,000 U. S. high schools entered the 2003 Na tional Merit Program by taking the Preliminary Scholastic Ap titude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) last year. The Tustin Unified students are among 16,000 high school seniors who will compete for approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards worth $30 million. They were selected based on their scores in the PSAT/NMSOT. The top scorers in each state, representing less than one percent of those com peting, are selected as semi finalists. Merit Scholarship finalists, based on high academic stan dards, personal activities, school and community recom mendations and SAT scores, will be announced next spring. Other honorees include: Deanna Alderson, Kimberly Ballance, Martine Barracliffe, Tania Chan, Jennifer Corlett, Sabrina Kay, Alice Keh, Nata lie Mourra, Joshua Thorngren, Colin Twomey, Rory Vaughn, Hoai Vuong, Eldon Wright and Justin Yedor, seniors, Foothill High School; and Robert Camp bell and Victoria Esquivel, se niors, Tustin High School. They were honored as 2003 National Merit commended students by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The TUSD students are be ing recognized for their aca demic promise. They are among 34,000 commended stu dents throughout the nation. They placed among the top five percent of more than one mil lion students who entered the 2003 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National pep Scholarship Qualifying est. Red Ribbon Week is drug-free choice The Tustin Unified School District will celebrate 2002 Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 21-25, a national public awareness Please see SCHOOL Page 26
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Tustin News
Tustin, California, US
Thu, Oct 17, 2002
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