Westerville North High School recently had two seniors, Melinda Hopson and Carmen Stone, named as Outstanding Participants in the National Achievement Scholarship Program. These students scored in the top three percent of more than 160,000 Black Americans who requested consideration in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program when they took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Each young woman has been presented with a certificate in recognition of her potential for academic success in college.
The National Achievement Scholarship Program was initiated in 1964 specifically to honor academically promising Black American high school students. The scholarship competition is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which also conducts the National Merit Scholarship Program that is open to all U.S. high school students.