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Trenton School Board to Recognize National Merit Semifinalist
Trenton High School senior Ian Boettner currently has a 3.99 grade point average and scored a 34 on the ACT.
Trenton Public Schools officials are set to officially recognize the Trenton High School semifinalist for the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the board of education building.
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Trenton senior Ian Boettner has a 3.99 grade point average and is enrolled in three advanced placement courses. He participates in cross country and band, and scored a 34 on the ACT.
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About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants, according to Trenton Public Schools.
Boettner is one of about 16,000 other semifinalists.
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"These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered in the next spring," according to a TPS release.
Boettner has applied for admission to the Michigan Technological University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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