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In September of last year, Jernara Bussey, a senior at Jenkins and Jakeysha Prescott, a senior at Groves were selected as 2007 National Achievement® Scholarship Program semi-finalists. Both students have recently been announced recipients! They are among more than 800 high school seniors nation-wide to receive this honor.
The National Achievement 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 each annual competition.
The students may use their scholarships, in the amount of $2500, for undergraduate study at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university. Jernara plans to pursue a career in Political Science and Jakeysha plans to pursue a career in Medicine.
More than 140,000 students entered the 2007 National Achievement Program by requesting consideration when they tool the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) as high school juniors. Some 1,300 semi-finalists advanced to the finalist level and Achievement Scholarship winners were selected from that group.
Achievement Scholar awardees are the finalist candidates judged to have the strongest record of accomplishments and greatest potential for academic success in college. For more information on the National Achievement Scholarship program, visit their website at www.nationalmerit.org/nasp.php.
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