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National Merit Program The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named five Mother McAuley seniors as National Merit Commended Students: Brigid Barkmeier, Sydney Conn, Megan Howley, Martina Maples and Mary Russell. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation were recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).
National Hispanic Recognition Program Mother McAuley seniors Olivia “Rosie” Wantuck and Alena Pedroza were named as scholars through the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) for scoring in the top 2.5 percent among Hispanic and Latino PSAT/NMSQT test-takers in the region. The National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) recognizes approximately 5,000 Hispanic/ Latino juniors each year from among the more than 400,000 juniors who take the PSAT. As with the National Merit Scholarship Program, NHRP uses the junior year PSAT/NMSQT as the qualifying test
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Inscape The Inscape Newspaper staff won second place in the annual American Scholastic Press Association Yearbook Contest. The staff received perfect scores in creativity, student coverage, athletic coverage and body copy.
