Faith West Senior Named National Merit Finalist

Faith West Senior Named National Merit Finalist

Faith West Academy senior, Samuel A. Mote, has been named as a finalist in the 57th annual prestigious National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

Mote is among 15,000 finalists nationwide who are eligible to compete for 8,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million that will be offered in the spring, according to a release from the NMSC.  To advance to National Merit Finalist, students must have possessed an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the school principal, and earned SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier qualifying performance.

More than 1.5 million high school juniors in over 22,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2011-12 NMSC by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. This year’s finalists comprise less than one percent of all United States high school seniors and include entrants with the highest scores in each state. Merit Scholarship winners for 2012 will be announced between April-July 2012.

Three types of scholarships are offered. Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by about 240 corporations and businesses for finalists who meet their specific criteria. In addition, about 200 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,800 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

Mote is the valedictorian for the Faith West Academy Class of 2012, earning a 4.74 grade point average.  He is a member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the football team, and the ComedySportz team. After graduation, he plans to attend Texas A&M and major in electrical engineering.

Faith West Academy is an accredited, inter-denominational private Christian school. We are proud to say that we have been a part of the Katy/West Houston community since 1982.  Faith West Academy is accredited by the International Christian Accrediting Association (ICAA), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), and is a member of Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI.)

For more information, visit www.faithwest.org.

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