Dylan Temel is National Merit scholarship semifinalist

Posted 9/28/17

Bishop Hendricken senior Dylan Temel ('18) of Westerly has been awarded Semifinalist status by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and is now eligible to advance to Finalist standing in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships to

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Dylan Temel is National Merit scholarship semifinalist

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Bishop Hendricken senior Dylan Temel (’18) of Westerly has been awarded Semifinalist status by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and is now eligible to advance to Finalist standing in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships to be offered next spring. Temel was an integral part of Hendricken's National Champion Academic Decathlon Team last spring winning a total of seven medals: two gold medals in economics and speech, one silver medal in art, and four bronze medals in music, math, science and social science.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships. High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

To ensure that academically talented young people from all parts of the United States are included in this talent pool, Semifinalists are designated on a state-representational basis. They are the highest scoring entrants in each state. Every Finalist will then compete for a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship that will be awarded on a state-representational basis in the spring of 2018.

In addition, Bishop Hendricken Principal, Jay Brennan (’72), announced that the following Class of 2018 students have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship program. Ryan P. Bayne (Cranston), Liam J. Benjamin (Wakefield), Timothy D. Mattias (Coventry), Sean P. Meehan (East Greenwich), and Abraham J. Wilkins (Providence).

Approximately 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2018 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2018 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

The Commended Students will receive a Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) and will be recognized at Hendricken’s Academic Honors Convocation in May.

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