{"id":28914,"date":"2025-09-18T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=28914"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:12:43","slug":"congratulations-mpa-national-merit-semifinalists-and-commended-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/congratulations-mpa-national-merit-semifinalists-and-commended-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, MPA National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28916 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/meritWP.png\" alt=\"Mounds Park Academy's Class of 2026 Merit Award winner, semifinalists, and commended students.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>More than 1.3 million high school juniors nationwide took the 2024 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT), beginning their journey into the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program. From that group, about 16,000 students\u2014representing the top one percent of seniors\u2014were recently named Semifinalists.<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to share that three MPA seniors, Thomas Dickson, Mina Kim, and Liam Kimmerle, are among this group and have been recognized as National Merit Semifinalists! To advance further in the competition, they will now submit an application that includes their academic record, an essay, a school recommendation, and qualifying SAT or ACT scores.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Boyd Mayfield was honored as a Commended Student, placing among the top 50,000 students nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The National Merit Scholarship Corporation highlights these students as a valuable national resource\u2014future leaders whose academic talent will advance excellence in education and beyond. We couldn\u2019t be more proud of Thomas, Mina, Liam, and Boyd for their incredible achievements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1.3 million high school juniors nationwide took the 2024 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT), beginning their journey into the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program. From that group, about 16,000 students\u2014representing the top one percent of seniors\u2014were recently named Semifinalists. We are thrilled to share that three MPA seniors, Thomas Dickson, Mina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":28915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28914","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\/28914","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=28914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28920,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions\/28920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}