Congratulations to Ben and Sara ,
Harrison's latest National Merit Semifinalists!

Southwest Local School District Students Achieve National Merit Status

Ben Wilder and Sara Swartout, both seniors at William Henry Harrison High School, have been named National Merit Semifinalists. This is an honor that allows them to advance to National Merit Finalist status and opens the door to scholarship offers.

Sara is the daughter of Jeff and Linda Swartout and Ben is the son of Mark and Diane Wilder.

Senior Julie Warders has also achieved “Commended Student” status of the National Merit Scholarship Program.  Julie the daughter of Glenn and Mary Warders.

About 230 Greater Cincinnati high school seniors are among the 16,000 semifinalists in the 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

More than 1.5 million juniors in 22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Sara and Ben scored better than 99 percent of all the Ohio students who took the PSAT test in their junior year.

Nationally, the semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of high school seniors.