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More college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners named

On Monday, July 17, National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced about 900 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

These Merit Scholar designees join more than 3,200 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution.

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

This year, 182 colleges and universities are sponsoring more than 4,000 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 103 private and 79 public institutions in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

This final group of winners brings the number of 2017 National Merit Scholars to more than 7,500. These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of more than $32 million.

In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were offered - 2,500 National Merit $2,500 scholarships, for which all finalists competed, and approximately 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who met criteria specified by their granter organizations.

The Northwest suburban College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship winners of July 17, are:

• Lauren Anfenson of Arlington Heights: Rolling Meadows High School, National Merit Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Scholarship. Probable career field, physics.

• Matthew T. Hoffman of Arlington Heights: Wheeling High School, National Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship. Probable career field, biological engineering.

• Brock T. Calamari of Barrington: Barrington Community High School, National Merit University of Nebraska-Lincoln Scholarship. Probable career field, forensics.

• Julia M. Homola of Barrington: Barrington Community High School, National Merit University of Alabama at Birmingham scholarship. Probable career field, biology.

• Adam Craig Grobman of Buffalo Grove: Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, National Merit Harvey Mdd College Scholarship. Probable career field, computer science.

• Kienan T. Ahner-McHaffie of Glenview: Glenbrook South High School, National Merit Case Western Reserve University Scholarship. Probable career field, computer science

• Julia Peck of Glenview: Glenbrook South High School, National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship. Probable career field, physical therapy

• Maanasa Kanimilli of Hoffman Estates: Barrington Community High School, National Merit Loyola University Chicago Scholarship. Probable career field, neurosurgery

• Matthew J. Kowalski of Mount Prospect, Prospect High School, National Merit Michigan State University Scholarship. Probable career field, physics

• Charles C. Hansell of Winnetka: New Trier Township High School, National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship. Probable career field, political science.

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