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Gregg Carrier of Viewtown, Justin Harrell of Haymarket and Alison Martin of Flint Hill have been named Commended Students in the National Merit Scholarship Program. All three are students at Wakefield School ip Marshall.
A certificate of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the school to the three outstanding seniors.
About 350,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being honored for their outstanding performance on the 1990 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which was the route of entry to the 1992 Merit Program.
Commended Students have shown exceptional academic promise by placing among the top five percent of more than one million program entrants, but their qualifying test scores are slightly below the level required to continue in the 1992 competition for Merit Scholarships.
An officer of NMSC stated, “The high performance of the young people honored as Commended Students in the Merit Program in indicative of outstanding academic ability.
“We hope that recognition of these students will increase their motivation to make the best use of
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