CCUSD: Cactus Shadows High Announces National Merit Scholar.

Posted By The Peak on Jul 1, 2019

June 20, 2019

Cactus Shadows’ Sarah Weiss named National Merit Scholar

Sarah Weiss, National Merit Scholar

Cactus Shadows High School is pleased to announce that Sarah Weiss has been named a National Merit Scholar and has been offered a college-sponsored Merit Scholarship Award. The National Merit Arizona State University Scholarship is sponsored by ASU.

This year, 173 colleges and universities are underwriting Merit Scholarship awards through the National Merit Scholarship Program. Ninety-five private and 78 public institutions located in 43 states and the District of Columbia participated.

In their media release, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation wrote:

Over 1.6 million juniors in approximately 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. 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 state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.

For more information of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, please visit their website at https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/start.aspx?gid=2&pgid=61

Principal, James Swetter said, “We are very proud of Sarah for being named a National Merit Scholar. Sarah has led by example during her time at CSHS and accomplished a great deal both in and out of the classroom! We wish her the best of luck as she moves on to Arizona State University.”

You may recall that Sarah has also received a one-time thesis research support of $1,500 and $1,000 toward a study abroad program with Barrett, the Honors College when she was a National Merit Semi-Finalist. Sarah has been accepted at Barrett and plans on studying biology in preparation for medical school.

Superintendent Burdick said, “Sarah is an exemplar of a dedicated and exceptional student, as well as young adult. We look forward to hearing her future accomplishments, as we know there will be many.

Cactus Shadows High School is an A+ School of Excellence and a World Class High School for the 21^st Century. For more information, contact Mr. Jim Swetter, Principal, at jswetter@ccusd93.net or visit our website www.ccusd93.org .

Best,

Julia Scotto
Executive Assistant to
Dr. Debbi Burdick, Superintendent & Governing Board
Cave Creek Unified School District
480.575.2016 Phone/480.575.2092 Faxjscotto@ccusd93.org

“You are what you do, not what you say” – C.G. Jung

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