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University High Student Named
Achievement Scholarship Semifinalist
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Estella Zavala or Susan Cergol, 225-6437
Posted on: October 2, 2001
Qiana Kelly, a senior at University High School, 421 N. Arcadia Blvd., is one of
1,500 students nationwide and the only student from Tucson recently named to the
semifinals of the National Achievement Scholarship Program, an academic competition for
African American high school students.
Kelly, who plans to pursue a career in elementary education, now has an opportunity to
continue in the competition for one of more than 700 Achievement Scholarship awards, worth
some $2.5 million, that will be offered next spring for college undergraduate study.
Semifinalists advance to the finals by demonstrating a high academic performance
throughout high school, receiving endorsement and recommendation by their school principal
and earning SAT scores that confirm their earlier PSAT/NMSQT performance. School and
community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities and educational goals also are
considered.
More than 110,000 African American students from around the country entered the program
by requesting consideration when they took the 2000 Preliminary SAT/National Merit
Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as high school juniors. Semifinalists were
designated on a regional representation basis and are the highest-scoring program entrants
in the states that make up each geographic region.
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