{"id":18870,"date":"2011-05-13T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentridge-high-school-student-wins-national-merit-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:20:30","slug":"kentridge-high-school-student-wins-national-merit-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kentridge-high-school-student-wins-national-merit-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentridge High School student wins National Merit scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Nachiketha Shamaprasad of Kentridge High School is one of 54 high school seniors from the state who have won 2011 National Merit scholarships.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Each student will receive a $2,500 scholarship that can be used at any U.S. college or university.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Shamaprasad was one of 2,500 national winners from a pool of 15,000 finalists, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The winners were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors. The students are judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>college studies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The winners were announced May 4.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, go to <a title=\"merit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmerit.org\/\" target=\"_self\">www.nationalmerit.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nachiketha Shamaprasad of Kentridge High School is one of 54 high school seniors from the state who have won 2011 National Merit scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}