The Examiner U-46 News FeedBartlett High students named as merit finalists By Seth Hancock
Bartlett High School has five seniors who have been named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
The Board of Education in School District U-46 recognized the finalists at its March 14 meeting.
Jessica Pearce, the board’s student advisor and one of the finalists, said the evaluation process for the program starts during junior year when students take the PSAT, finalists needing to be in the top 1 percent in the nation according to a district press release. Pearce said there are applications recommendations and essays involved in the process.
The Bartlett students were notified in February by their principal, Mike Demovsky, that they were among 15,000 semifinalists to be named finalists. Between March and June, the National Merit website states that 7,500 of those finalists will be notified if they’ve received a scholarship, with over $30 million in scholarships being awarded.
“We always talk about leadership as students, we talk about cultivating leaders,” Demovsky said. “And there are so many that we have in this building. Not only are these amazing academic leaders, but these are leaders of the absolute school.”
Along with Pearce, the other finalists include Evan Bulatek, Agilan Gunashankar, Anthony Martin and Ronit Nagarapu.
Bulatek plans to attend Northwestern University and study mechanical engineering, and Martin plans to major in mechanical engineering at Valparaiso University, according to the district press release. The other three finalists have not chosen a college but Gunashankar plans to study computer sciences, Nagarapu either computer sciences or electrical engineering and Pearce political science and journalism.
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