{"id":26647,"date":"2024-09-23T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=26647"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:07:55","slug":"congratulations-national-merit-semifinalists-and-commended-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/09\/23\/congratulations-national-merit-semifinalists-and-commended-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26648 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MeritWP.png\" alt=\"Merit\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>It all started last fall, with more than 1.3 million juniors in high schools nationwide taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT) and then entering the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. Based on PSAT performance, a nationwide pool of about 16,000 Semifinalists was announced recently.<\/p>\n<p>Representing MPA and earning their place among the top one percent of high school seniors, <strong>Navreen Biring and Paul Fertig were announced as National Merit Semifinalists<\/strong>! Congratulations to Navreen and Paul, who will now complete an extensive application to proceed further in the competition. They will provide their academic record, an essay, a school recommendation, and SAT or ACT scores that confirm their qualifying performance on the PSAT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three additional seniors, Annika Binstadt, Mari Minear, and Amal Sastry, are recognized as Commended Students in the National Merit program.<\/strong> Their scores placed them in the top 50,000 students nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success and notes that they represent a valuable national resource, contributing to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation. We are so proud of these five MPA students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started last fall, with more than 1.3 million juniors in high schools nationwide taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT) and then entering the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. Based on PSAT performance, a nationwide pool of about 16,000 Semifinalists was announced recently. Representing MPA and earning their place among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26652,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647\/revisions\/26652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}