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Sacred Heart Academy Announces National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students

LOUISVILLE, KY (October 2006) - Dr. Beverly McAuliffe, principal at Sacred Heart Academy (SHA), has announced that seniors Emily Neyman, Catherine Sherman and Amanda Smith have been named Semifinalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program. Teresa Finnegan, Mary Kate Fulton, Claire Garst, Judith Gehlhausen, Holly Graham, Catey Harwell and Megan Jones have been named Commended Students.

The Semifinalists were chosen from a pool of high school students across the nation by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. Candidates entered the 2007 National Merit Program by taking the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Semifinalists have the opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards, worth $33 million, that will be offered next spring. Commended students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.4 million students who entered the 2007 competition.

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Sacred Heart Academy (SHA), founded in 1877 by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, is a member of Ursuline Campus Schools and is a college preparatory secondary school for girls. Sacred Heart is the only Catholic high school in Kentucky to offer the International Baccalaureate program, and 99 percent of SHA graduates attend hundreds of colleges and universities across the country. In addition to being a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, SHA celebrates more than 70 state athletic championship titles. In 2006, SHA’s graduating class earned over $9.6 million in college scholarships. The Academy has more than 10,000 alumnae worldwide. http://www.sacredheartacad.com/