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10 DHS Students Named Merit Semifinalists

Group ranks among the nation's top elite high school scholars.

Ten Deerfield High School students are among the nation’s National Merit Scholarship semifinalists putting them among the country’s academic elite, according to a news release today from Township High School 113.

The semifinalists are Natalie Brown, Henry Cao, Ryan Cenek, Ethan Dlugie, Eric Guberman, Lauren Klein, Aiko Lovejoy, William Rivlin, Lauren Smith and Allison Sutton.

This group is part of 16,000 students nationwide who scored highest on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test out of approximately 1.5 million people who took the exam. Their scores put them in better than the top one percent of all test takers.

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Finalists will be announced in the spring and most semifinalists are expected to make the cut, according to the release. Approximately 8,000 of the finalists will receive scholarships worth more than $35 million. Nine Deerfield students were semifinalists last year and all became finalists.

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