Wesleyan School is pleased to announce that the National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named senior Alexander Thorne a National Merit Semifinalist. This honor is extended to only 1% of seniors (approximately 16,000 total) nationwide receive based on their PSAT scores. Thorne will now submit an essay in the hopes of becoming a finalist and earning scholarship money. The finalists will be announced later this school year.
National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 400 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
High school juniors entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
Wesleyan School is a Christian, independent K-12 college preparatory school located in
Peachtree Corners, Georgia. At the start of the 2021-2022 school year, Wesleyan enrolled 1,193
students from throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area. To learn more about the school, visit
wesleyanschool.org.
