Two Lake Washington School District students, Shelby Jennings from International Community School and Elizabeth Alexander from Lake Washington High School, are among the 1,600 Black American high school seniors who have been designated as semifinalists in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program.
This program is a part of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and recognizes scholastically talented young men and women.
Jennings and Alexander are among the 1,600 students from the United States selected as semifinalists for these awards.
They will now go on to complete for one of the approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards worth more than $2.4 million to be offered next spring.
To be considered for a National Achievement Scholarship, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.
The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed academic competition established in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented Black American youth, and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in the annual National Merit Scholarship competition.
