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Eight Regional Seniors Honored as Commended Scholars
There were eight seniors at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School commended as part of the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Eight students at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School have been honored as “commended students” in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program, Eric Tracy, the principal, announced on Wednesday.
Each of the students – all seniors - will get a letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
The commended students are Eric B. Baumeister, Timothy R. Caves, Lucas Cruz-Nascimento, Griffen J. Desroches, Justin X. Guo, Melissa I. Kain, Ian M. Stock and Ethan T. Whitman.
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The students are among about 34,000 commended students across the country that have been recognized for “exceptional academic promise” but will not continue in competition for a 2014 National Merit Scholarship award.
Commended students are in the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2014 competition last year by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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