Congratulations to John R. Stipp-Bethune, who has received a National Merit Scholarship from Oklahoma State University!
NATIONAL MERIT OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
Oklahoma State University, a land-grant institution, has three goals: to instruct, to do research, and to offer educational assistance to the public through extension. The university offers Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in a large number of fields as well as the professional DVM degree. Enrollment is approximately 22,500, and over 1,000 full-time teaching staff are employed at the main campus in
Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Today’s announcement is the third National Merit Scholar release in 2023 by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®). NMSC named recipients of corporate-sponsored awards on April 26 and winners of National Merit® $2500 Scholarships on May 10. Additional recipients of college-sponsored awards will be announced on July 10. By the conclusion of this year’s competition, more than 7,140 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $28 million.
(Evanston, Illinois) Today, National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced
over 3,000 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists
in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. These
awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. An additional group of Scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2023 competition to more than 3,800.
This year, 153 higher education institutions are underwriting Merit Scholarship awards through the National Merit Scholarship Program. Sponsor colleges and universities include 81 private and 72 public institutions located in 42 states and the District of Columbia.
College-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners announced today are a part of the
distinguished group of more than 7,140 high school seniors who will receive National Merit
Scholarships for college undergraduate study worth nearly $28 million. Earlier this spring,
NMSC announced winners of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships.
High school juniors entered the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, more than 16,000 Semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.
To compete for Merit Scholarship awards, Semifinalists first had to advance to the Finalist
level of the competition by fulfilling additional requirements. Each Semifinalist was asked to
submit a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing
information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also
had to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a high school
official, and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirmed the qualifying test performance. From
the Semifinalist group, over 15,000 met requirements for Finalist standing, and about half of the
Finalists will be Merit Scholarship winners in 2023.
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was
established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program. The majority of National Merit Scholarships provided each year are made possible by the support of approximately 340 independent corporate and college sponsors. These sponsors join NMSC in its efforts to enhance educational opportunities for America’s scholastically talented youth and to encourage the pursuit of academic excellence.