Ballard High School student Dylan Reid Miller is one of four National Merit Scholarship recipients from Seattle Public Schools. Today the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the winners in the 56th annual college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship Program. Miller plans to attend New York University and study film production. The scholarship awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
A total of 1.5 million students entered the competition and only 2,900 were selected for the college-sponsored program. Announced earlier this spring were winners of two other types of National Merit Scholarships – corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships. Another group of college-sponsored National Merit Scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total to approximately 4,800.