Eleven Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

[October 2007]
Eleven students from the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP) were named National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists. The students, Canton High School seniors Katherine Lu, Xin-Kan (Steve) Su, George Wasylyshyn and Wenxin Zhu, Plymouth High School seniors Aaron Goodman, Jessica Liu, Emily Movsesian, Theodore Wakar and Siyang Yu and Salem High School seniors Ryan Hoffman and Yuhan (Julie) Zhao rank in the top one percent of their peers across the nation.

The National Merit Scholarship Program has named approximately 16,000 academically talented high school seniors as semifinalists. These seniors now have an opportunity to advance in the competition for 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards (about $34 million) to be offered in the spring of 2008.

Photo: (L) Julie Zhao, Steve Su, Katherine Lu, Siyang Yu, Emily Movsesian, Jessica Liu, Wenxin Zhu, Theodore Wakar, George Wasylyshyn, Aaron Goodman, Ryan Hoffman