{"id":23164,"date":"2014-09-16T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2014-09-16T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:28:30","slug":"a-record-19-uhs-students-named-national-merit-semi-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23164","title":{"rendered":"A record 19 UHS students named National Merit Semi-Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23165\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MeritUHS14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23165\" class=\"wp-image-23165 size-full\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MeritUHS14.jpg\" alt=\"MeritUHS14\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MeritUHS14.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MeritUHS14-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MeritUHS14-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A record 19 Unionville High School students were honored this week as National Merit Semi-Finalists.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 A record 19 Unionville High School students were named National Merit Semi-Finalists this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 19 named beats the old school record of 13 \u2014 a number hit the last two years \u2014 and is yet another honor for the high school, which has been listed among the top high schools in the nation by a number of national publications in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>These talented students scored in the top 1% in the country on their 11th grade PSAT (Preliminary SAT). To give a context to the students&#8217; scores, 5.5% of UHS students taking the PSAT in October 2013 scored in the top 1% in the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These academically talented UHS seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million nationwide, which will be offered next spring.\u00a0 The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U. S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the Semi-Finalists are: Abhinav Akki,\u00a0 Ryan Andes, Laura Barthold, Daniel Beckman, Atma Bery, Laura Burger, Nicholas Caputo, Haley Christofides,\u00a0 Nikita Iyer,\u00a0 Haley Keglovitis, Shashwat Kishore, Alex Lui, Drew Moses, Jeffrey Phillips, Miles Powell, Tucker Reese, Samir Streatfield,<br \/>\nOlivia Young and Beverly Zhuge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 A record 19 Unionville High School students were named National Merit Semi-Finalists this week. The 19 named beats the old school record of 13 \u2014 a number hit the last two years \u2014 and is yet another honor for the high school, which has been listed among the top high schools in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[6102,7427,1286],"class_list":["post-23164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-schools","tag-national-merit-semi-finalists","tag-unionville-high-school","tag-unionville-chadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164","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=23164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23167,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions\/23167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}