Alisha Neblett named a winner of the National Achievement Scholarship
Alisha Neblett, daughter of Roy and Julia Neblett, was one of four Arkansas high school seniors to be named a winner of the National Achievement Scholarships for outstanding African-American students. A total of 800 students nationwide were announced as winners by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Most of the achievement scholarships are one-time payments of $2,500. About 100 of the scholarship winners are recipients of corporate-sponsored scholarships, many of which are renewable and provide stipends of $500 to $10,000 per year.
More than 140,000 students entered the 2008 National Achievement Scholarship
Competition by requesting consideration when they took the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) as high school juniors. In September 2007,
approximately 1,600 of the highest scorers were named Semifinalists on a regional representation
basis. To continue in the competition, Semifinalists had to fulfill requirements for Finalist
standing, which included having a record of consistently high academic performance; being
endorsed and recommended by an official of their high school; earning SAT scores that confirm
their PSAT/NMSQT performance; and submitting an essay about personal interests, attainments,
and goals.
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