{"id":20852,"date":"2014-02-18T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=20852"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T22:43:04","slug":"12-uhs-students-honored-as-national-merit-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=20852","title":{"rendered":"12 UHS students honored as National Merit Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/UHSNationalMeritLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20853\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"UHSNationalMeritLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/UHSNationalMeritLogo.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/UHSNationalMeritLogo.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/UHSNationalMeritLogo-108x100.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 For the second straight year, 12 Unionville High School students were named finalists for the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) this week \u2014 something just 15,000 high school students in the United States can say. The award is granted on the basis of their PSAT and SAT scores, along with their academic achievement and extra-curricular activities.<\/p>\n<p>The students are: Ari Bleemer, Kate Dietrich-Manion, Victoria Francis, Amy Gottsegen, Edward Jing, Erin Kutz, Angela Pan, Barrett Powell, Edward Pyun, Ria Rathi, Jason Shao and Alyssa Trigg.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The winners represent less than 1% of students nationally \u2014 more than 1.5 million \u2014 who enter the competition.<\/p>\n<p>While being a finalist is not a guarantee of\u00a0 getting scholarship funds for college, typically about half the finalists \u2014 about 8,000 students \u2014 end up with scholarships either from NMSP sources or from colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 For the second straight year, 12 Unionville High School students were named finalists for the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) this week \u2014 something just 15,000 high school students in the United States can say. The award is granted on the basis of their PSAT and SAT scores, along with their academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[5014,4180,7427],"class_list":["post-20852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-schools","tag-national-merit-scholar","tag-psat","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}