Seniors receive Merit Scholarship recognition

The National Merit Scholarship Program has recognized four P.K. Yonge seniors for exceptional academic achievement:

Joseph Bolinao, Harold Mikolaitis and Megan Weber have been named Commended Students in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are among 34,000 high school seniors selected for the honor out of 1.5 million students who entered the scholastic competition by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Seun Fayiga, is one of only 1,600 black Americans selected as a semi-finalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program. The program is a privately financed academic competition that recognizes academically promising black students and provides scholarships to the most outstanding participants.