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DATE: September 21, 2010
3:33:37 PM CDT |
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Fort Bend Independent School
District |
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NEWS RELEASE |
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FROM COMMUNITY RELATIONS |
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askFBISD@fortbendisd.com |
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281.634.1100 |
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** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** |
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Fifty-one FBISD 2011
National Merit Semifinalists Named |
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FORT BEND ISD The Fort
Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of 51
FBISD |
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students who have been
named semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. To put
that |
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number in perspective,
Fort Bend ISD has one of the highest percentages of National Merit
Semifinalists |
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among the larger school
districts in Texas. |
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The 51 FBISD
semifinalists are among more than 1.5 million high school juniors in more
than 22,000 United |
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States high schools who
entered the 2011 Merit Program by taking the PSAT/National Merit
Scholarship |
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Qualifying Test. The
nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S.
high school |
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seniors, includes the
highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists varies
each year |
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according to the
allocation for the state as designated by the National Merit
Corporation. |
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Fort Bend ISD's 2011
National Merit semifinalists by campus are: |
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Austin High School Pallavi Bakshi, Rachel Hatton, Brian Lisco, Swaroop
Rao, and Nakul Shah; |
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Clements High
School Sara Ahmed, Smarath Asthana, Anik
Bhattacharya, Warren Chan, Kevin Chen, Darren |
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Chiu, Matthew Dierker,
Nikhil Dixit, Richard Fang, Kevin Feng, Dev Gandhi, Xuan Gao, Vivian Ho,
Jia-Ching |
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Hsu, Phillip Hu, Adelia
Humme, Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, Nathan Kwan, Kevin Lin, Sirui Lu, Kritaarth
Mahankali, |
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Priyanka Mehta, Minesh
Patel, Victoria Pham, Karthik Sethuraman, Millie Shi, Connie Wang, Jia Xin
Wang, |
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Katherine Yun, Rose
Zhang and Yuxi Zhou; |
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Dulles High School Julia Chang, Corey Fisher and Aaras Shah; |
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Elkins High School Eileen Gong, Richard Haines, Connie Wang and Grant
Yuan; |
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Hightower High School Steven Dao and Neel Patel; |
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Kempner High School Shuoyang Zhu, and; |
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Travis High School
Hersh Agrawal, Julie Gerzina, Nikita Kansra,
Gaurav Nayak and Shrinidhi Rao. |
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These high school
seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,400 Meritฎ
Scholarship awards, worth $36 million, that will be offered next spring. |
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