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Meet Plainview's 2012-13 National Merit Finalists
Four Plainview JFK students earn national recognition.
The Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District has announced that four Plainview JFK students have been named National Merit Finalists for the 2012-2013 school year.
POBJFK students Sunny Zheng, Robert Adelson, Amelia Ricketts and Adrian Kim were recognized as National Merit Finalists for their outstanding performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying (PSAT/NMSQT) Exam.
In order to earn this esteemed title, these four students had to score in the top 15,000 among roughly 1.5 million annual entrants in the National Merit Scholarship program.
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These academically talented high school seniors will now have the opportunity to continue in the competition for over 8,300 National Merit Scholarships that will be offered in the spring. National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April 2013 and concluding in July 2013.
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