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National Merit Scholars

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

NE Cobb National Merit Scholar Named

Daniel Wolfson has won a $2,500 scholarship.

Northeast Cobb resident Daniel Wolfson is a National Merit Scholar. The Wheeler High senior has won a $2,500 college scholarship, the National Merit Scholarship Corp. is announcing today. Wolfson is expected to be one of Wheeler's co-valedictorians and plans to attend Stanford University in the fall. He is aiming for a medical career, according to the announcement. He is one of seven students at Cobb County public high schools who are part of the latest group of 2,500 National Merit Scholars named across the country. All seven are at Wheeler, Walton or Campbell. All of today’s winners are getting one-time $2,500 awards, usually financed by National Merit itself. About 1,000 winners of corporate-sponsored scholarships were announced April …

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

National Merit Scholars Announced

Northeast Cobb students are among those announced in the third National Merit Scholar release in 2011 by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

NMSC named recipients of corporate-sponsored awards on April 20 and winners of National Merit® $2500 Scholarships on May 4. Additional recipients of college-sponsored awards will be announced on July 11. By the conclusion of this year’s competition, about 8,300 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $35 million. College-sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners Named More than 2,900 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities were announced today by National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among Finalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. These awards …

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