For Immediate Release

October 15, 2007

Contact: Jennifer Wheet, 942-5531

FIVE COE-BROWN STUDENTS RECEIVE NATIONAL MERIT RECOGNITION

NORTHWOOD—Headmaster David Smith of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy announced today that five students, Matthew Blake, Tyler Goodell, Alex Howe, Rebecca Rubinstein, and Jade Wilcox, have received awards in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Last fall 1.4 million juniors from across the US, including 9,000 students from New Hampshire, took the PSAT test. This test serves as both practice for the SAT, and screening for the National Merit Scholarship Program. Only 167 students from New Hampshire qualified as “commended students”, having placed in the top 5% of test-takers across the nation. Three Coe-Brown students, Tyler Goodell, Alex Howe, and Jade Wilcox, received Letters of Commendation for placing in this category.

Additionally, only 74 students in New Hampshire, or less than 1% of those tested, are recognized as semi-finalists. This year, two Coe-Brown students, Matthew Blake and Rebecca Rubinstein, have earned this distinction, and will continue onto the next round of the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards, worth $34 million, to be offered next spring.

 

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