Bloomington seniors named National Merit semifinalists

Published on Sep 22, 2021
National Merit Semifinalists 2022

Four Bloomington seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Alexander Kiner, Jamie Melville and Joseph Shetaye (Jefferson High School), and Isaac Stein (Kennedy High School) (left to right, above) are candidates for merit scholarships to be awarded early next year.

More than 1.5 million high school juniors enter the National Merit Program each year by taking the Preliminary SAT, which serves as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists includes the highest scoring entrants in each state and represents less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors.