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East Cobb Students Win National Scholarships

Oludamilola Aladesanmi, Elizabeth Studstill and Alexander McIntyre each will receive a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship.

Two high school students from East Cobb and a third who goes to school in East Cobb are recipients of $2,500 each in the 2010-11 National Achievement Scholarship competition.

Oludamilola Aladesanmi and Alexander McIntyre and Sprayberry High's Elizabeth Studstill are among about 800 African-American high school seniors named to this year’s scholarship list. Each student will receive $2,500 in tuition money, provided through grants from about 30 corporate organizations and professional associations and by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.

Aladesanmi and Studstill live in East Cobb; McIntyre lives in Kennesaw but can attend Wheeler for its math and science magnet program.

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The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed national competition. Established in 1964, the scholarships go to African-American high school students who distinguished themselves through academic excellence.

More than 31,000 students have received scholarship awards since the program’s inception, with approximately $98 million awarded to winners to defer the costs of undergraduate studies at colleges and universities.

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More than 160,000 students entered the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship Program based on scores from the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), an exam taken by high school juniors nationwide. Approximately 1,600 students with the highest scores advanced to the semifinal round of competition on a regional basis; to advance to the final round of competition, semifinalists were required to provide judges with the following:

  • A record of transcripts showing a consistently high level of academic performance.
  • A personal endorsement by a high school official.
  • SAT scores that met or exceeded the PSAT/NMSQT requirements.
  • An essay written according to the rules of the competition.

Achievement Scholars are the students judged to have the strongest portfolio of accomplishments and the greatest potential for academic success in college.

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