Four Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

The Gatton Academy is proud to announce four members of the Class of 2009 have been honored as National Merit Semifinalists: Rachel A. Bowman, Daniel P. Coffman, Tyce A. Hodges, and Dalton G. Hubble.

Kentucky has 228 high school seniors among the nearly 16,000 semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

To compete for the 8,200 scholarships awarded by the program, the students must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist stage. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists and about half of them will be awarded scholarships, making them merit scholars.

Winners will be announced in the late spring and summer of next year.