Two Coram Deo Academy High School of Flower Mound students, Marian Rogers and Rachel Synan, have been named National Merit Semifinalists. They are in the top 1% of students taking the exam and join 16,000 others continuing in the competition for some 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $35 million, that will be offered next spring.

Rebecca Musgrove was named a Commended Scholar, and is in the top 5 % of students taking the 2007 Preliminary SAT /National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

More than 1.5 million juniors in over 21,000 high schools entered the 2009 National Merit Program