Fayette's semifinalists

are (Fayette County High) Jacob Lewin, (McIntosh High) Rebecca Ackman,

Lauren Coffey, Victoria Fratto, Robert Huefner, Ryan Nigro, John Powers,

Christopher Taylor, Masiray Koroma and Shauna Muellings, (Sandy Creek

High) Savannah Solomon, and (Starr's Mill High) Caitlin Clarke and Lauren

Kurczewski.

The next step

for semifinalists is to fulfill requirements to advance to finalist standing,

a prerequisite to competing for a Merit Scholarship award. To become finalists,

semifinalists must have a record of very high academic performance, be

endorsed and recommended by their school principal and earn SAT scores

that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.

About 90 percent,

or approximately 15,000 semifinalists, are expected to advance to the

finalist level of the competition and some 8,000 of them will win Merit

Scholarship awards.