Life School Oak Cliff senior Daniela Mitchell is a Special Scholarship candidate in the National Merit Scholarship Program, an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), a test which serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.5 million
entrants each year—and by filing an entry form with the sponsor company.
Special Scholarships are provided by many of the National Merit Program’s corporate sponsors that also offer Merit Scholarship awards for students who meet their specified criteria—usually children of employees or residents of communities where the company is located. Subsequently, NMSC designates a pool of candidates with the highest PSAT/MNSQT Selection Index scores. The selected students and their school officials submit detailed scholarship applications. Then a committee of NMSC professional staff evaluates information about each candidate’s abilities, skills, and accomplishments and chooses winners of the scholarships that may be renewable for four years of undergraduate study or a one-time award.
Congratulations to Daniela Mitchell and the Life School Oak Cliff teachers and administrators. What a tremendous accomplishment!
