National Merit commends Sparta students

Sparta - The Director of Guidance, Stan Abromavage, of Sparta High School announced today that Margaret Carbery, Kelly Clark, Daniel dos Santos, Caitlin Kirschenbaum, Cynthia Lummer, Bijan Niknam, Angela Parriott, Sara Prickett, and Andrew Wang have been named Commended Students in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the Director of Guidance to these scholastically talented seniors at the Sparta High School Senior Academic Awards Night in June. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2007 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than one million students who entered the 2007 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. “Recognition of academically talented students and the key role played by schools in their development is essential to the pursuit of educational excellence in our nation,” said a spokesperson for NMSC. “The young people being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding academic potential by their strong performance in this highly competitive program. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and that they will continue to pursue scholastic excellence.”