Two Shorewood Students Earned National Merit Scholarships

SHOREWOOD, WI — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced more than 3,200 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities Wednesday. Two students from Shorewood were honored! One is headed to Lawrence University and the other to the University of Chicago.

These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

More than 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Last fall, approximately 16,000 Semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each stat, representing less than 1 percent of the nation’s seniors.

Here are Shorewood's Scholarship Winners:

Arundhati Pillai

Probable career field: Medicine

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE

NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIP

The University of Chicago is small, private, coeducational, and residential; it has an international reputation for distinction. The college (3,425 undergraduate students) offers liberal arts training in over 60 areas; 3,100 students are enrolled in 4 graduate divisions and about 3,000 in 7 graduate professional schools. Since 1892, Chicago has drawn gifted students from around the world to its beautiful 165-acre campus and has offered unexcelled teaching and extensive library and research facilities.

Rachel L. Robrecht

Probable career field: Anthropology

SHOREWOOD H. S., SHOREWOOD

NATIONAL MERIT LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

Lawrence University is a nationally recognized undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences and conservatory of music. Chartered in 1847, Lawrence was among the first colleges in the United States to be founded coeducationally. The university emphasizes individualized learning through a rich set of small group or single-student tutorial courses, independent study projects, studio work, and faculty-student research collaborations, all of which take advantage of a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio.

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