Center School senior Tara N. Conley was named one of 23 semifinalists from Seattle Public Schools in the 58th-annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Conley — among the 16,000 students nationwide who earned top scores on the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test — will continue in the competition for about 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $32 million, that will be offered next spring.
About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists, and more than half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
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