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Chinaqua Winborn, Kansas City, Kansas, has been named to the Columbia College dean’s list for the summer semester.
Winborn is an online student. Students on the dean’s list must have completed 12 semester hours in a 16-week period and achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.
Columbia College, founded in 1851 in Columbia, Missouri, is a private, nonprofit institution.
Christina Franklin of Kansas City, Kansas, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The university is a private, liberal arts university with campuses in Emmitsburg and Frederick, Maryland.
Brandon Hamilton, a student at Turner High School, has been named a semifinalist in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Hamilton is the only student listed from a Wyandotte County school.
He is one of 16,000 semifinalists in the nation announced this week. The high school seniors will have the opportunity to continue in the competition for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring.
More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and more than half will win a National Merit Scholarship.
More than 1.5 million students took the 2019 Preliminary SAT-National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as a junior.
The semifinalists are less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.