The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced its 2027 list of semifinalist high school students, who will compete for a share of more than 24 million dollars in scholarships!
Alhamdulilah, Eman Schools is very proud to announce we have 2 National Merit Semi-Finalists this year &
3 National Merit Commended Students!
(These students are the top 1-2% of the state.)
Our 2027 National Merit Semi-Finalists are: Ayah Alhaffar & M. Mustafa Khan
Our 2027 National Merit Commended Students are: Kareem Halwani, Munthir Rashid & Aws Salahuddin
MABROOK to our outstanding students & their families. We are so proud!
Being a National Merit Scholar is an honor and joins the ranks of national leaders such as Ben Bernake (1971), Bill Gates (1973), Mitch Daniels (1967) along with 10 other Eman Schools alumni that were also Scholars in the past.
High school juniors, 11th graders, in about 21,000 high schools in the United States entered the academic competition by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The highest-scoring students in each state represent the pool of semifinalists who, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, represent less than 1% of United States high school seniors. The next step for a semifinalist to become a finalist is to complete the required application that includes their SAT or ACT scores, an essay and a letter of recommendation by a high school official. Finalists are then chosen on the basis of academic record, their participation in community and school activities, how they have demonstrated leadership ability, employment and awards and honors received. From a group of about 16,000 semifinalists, an expected 15,000 advance to finalists. Students are notified in February of their scholarship!