Ballard High School student Dylan Reid Miller is one of four National Merit Scholarship recipients from Seattle Public Schools. Today the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the winners in the 56th annual college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship Program. Miller plans to attend New York University and study film production. The scholarship awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
A total of 1.5 million students entered the competition and only 2,900 were selected for the college-sponsored program. Announced earlier this spring were winners of two other types of National Merit Scholarships – corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships. Another group of college-sponsored National Merit Scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total to approximately 4,800.
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What a wonderful young woman she
is. I’m sure she will have much success in life :)
Really? I always thought that scholarship was for a lot more than the minimum of $500.00. Seems like these kids get it for amazing work and that it was more. Anyway, congratulations.
The title or accomplishment is more important than the money. She can probably get academic scholarships wherever she wants to go (I believe she is planning to go to NYC film school). I was a national merit semi-finalist in my day, and it got me a full tuition waiver at the UW: no application or request on my part, just a letter I got one day saying “here you go, no tuition for you!”