Thirty-one Chattanooga area high school seniors were named Tuesday as 2011 semifinalists in the 56th National Merit Scholarship Program.
Students begin the National Merit Scholarship process by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test during their junior year.
According to the National Merit Scholarship Corp., 1.5 million juniors took the test in 2009. Of those, 16,000 students scored high enough to qualify as semifinalists – less than 1 percent of all U.S. high school seniors, according to program officials.
Here is the list of area semifinalists:
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