{"id":2953,"date":"2020-05-28T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:04:47","slug":"senior-leah-nickelsburg-named-national-merit-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/senior-leah-nickelsburg-named-national-merit-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Leah Nickelsburg Named National Merit Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congratulations to Nickelsburg<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Reagan Feld<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Electric kazoo wiz and grammar loving Leah Nickelsburg now has a new claim to fame: National Merit Scholar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nickelsburg and her fellow national\u00a0merit semifinalists, James Grimes and Riley Casagrande.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Announced May 13, the scholarship is awarded to 2,500 students from across the country and carries a financial award of $2,500. This year, 16,000 semifinalists made it into the final grouping, which began with a pool of over 1.5 million juniors from about 21,000 high schools. \u201cI feel so lucky to have been chosen out of many qualified applicants,\u201d said Nickelsburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \tThe lengthy road to the award began for Nickelsburg in October 2018, when she participated in the PSAT\/NMSC test. \u201cIt is kind of surreal \u2013 I took the test over a year ago,\u201d said Nickelsburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to compete for the scholarship, Nickelsburg had to meet Virginia state standards, submit her SAT score and write an essay for the National Merit Scholar Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe test measures a specific set of skills, most notably pattern recognition and working under pressure in a controlled environment,\u201d Nickelsburg said. \u201cThis test does not come close to covering the many abilities and types of intelligence that you need to have to be a functioning human.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \tT.C.\u2019s Class of 2020 saw three students become Merit Scholar semifinalists, one fewer than the four students that represented the school in 2019. Similar to this year, the Class of 2019 had seen one graduate \u2013 Ana Humphrey \u2013 become a National Merit Scholar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \tAccording to the last figures available, Virginia had almost 49,000 program entrants in 2018 of which 373 were chosen as semi-finalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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National Merit Scholar Leah Nickelsburg displays her college decision.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

        \tNext year, Nickelsburg will be attending Duke University in Durham, N.C. Although she is currently undecided about a major, T.C\u2019s National Merit Scholar is interested in the humanities and social sciences. Nickelsburg also wants to do research if the opportunity arises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if there\u2019s time, between electric kazoo recitals.
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