3 Glastonbury High School Students Earn National Merit College Award Distinction

GLASTONBURY, CT — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation Tuesday announced more than 750 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships, financed by colleges and universities, and three Glastonbury High School students are among them.

The latest Merit Scholar designees join more than 2,500 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution.

College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

This year, 138 colleges and universities are sponsoring more than 3,250 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 69 private and 69 public institutions located in 42 states and the District of Columbia.

The GHS winners are:

Logan Bergren

• Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering
• National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship

Kyle Hageman

• Probable career field: International Relations
• National Merit Tufts University Scholarship

Arkin Srivastava

• Probable career field: Applied Mathematics
• National Merit Boston University Scholarship