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Four UCS grads earn college-sponsored merit scholarships
Four Utica Community Schools seniors are among 2,500 nationally and nearly 70 students statewide to earn additional scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship program.
Benjamin Austin, of Eisenhower High School and the Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, Mark Cunningham, of Utica High School and the Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, Samantha Kulhanek, of Stevenson High School, and Lucas Weingartz, of the Utica Academy for International Studies, have earned National Merit Scholarship grants financed by U.S. colleges and universities.
The scholarships are:
- Austin earned the Michigan State University scholarship to study Neuroscience.
- Cunningham earned the Hope College Scholarship to study biochemistry;
- Kulhanek earned the Alma College Scholarship to study law; and
- Weingartz earned the Michigan State University scholarship to study medicine.
Michigan students have been offered scholarships between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study through National Merit programs funded by colleges and universities.
Students initially qualify for the Merit program by being among the top one percent of students in the country taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. This year, the Utica Community Schools had ten National Merit semi-finalists. Semifinalists represent the top one percent of all high school students nationally in terms of academic ability.
Earlier in the year, the merit corporation announced two other awards: a corporate scholarship to Neesirg Patel, of Stevenson High School and MST, and a merit scholar status for Georgia Hurchalla, of Henry Ford II High School and MST.
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