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Colm Connolly ’19 and Sofia Odeste ’19 were recently named finalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The selection of some 7,500 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 finalists is now in progress. Over 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT /National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.