Meet two of Southeast Missouri's four 2011 National Merit semifinalists

Thursday, November 10, 2011

What do a Bulldog and an Indian have in common? In the case of high school seniors Elizabeth Kiblinger and Nathan Fridley, it's academic achievement. As juniors, they scored high enough on the preliminary SAT to be included in a list of 16,000 students nationwide vying for a shot at scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Program. According to the not-for-profit organization that heads the program, around 1.5 million students in 22,000 high schools took the qualifying test. The students that will receive the scholarships will be announced in the spring.

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