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Sacred Heart Academy Announces National Merit Semifinalists

LOUISVILLE, KY (September 2007) - Dr. Beverly McAuliffe, principal at Sacred Heart Academy, has announced that the following nine seniors have been named Semifinalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program: Emily Amato, Ellen Baldwin, Lauren Barter, Sarah Coleman, Anastasia Damrau, Whitney Ising, Margaret Means, Maureen Muller and Laura Wetterer. 

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 2008 National Merit Program by taking the 2006 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 that will be offered next spring.

Sacred Heart Academy 2008 National Merit Semifinalists, from left (back row) Dr. Beverly McAuliffe, principal, Maureen Muller, Anastasia Damrau, Whitney Ising, Laura Wetterer, Ellen Baldwin; (front row) Sarah Coleman, Emily Amato, Margaret Means and Lauren Barter.

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Sacred Heart Academy (SHA), a member of Ursuline Campus Schools, is a college preparatory high school for girls founded in 1877 by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville. A national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, Sacred Heart is an International Baccalaureate School with 99 percent of the students pursuing higher education in hundreds of colleges and universities nationally and internationally. The class of 2007 earned over $15.1 million in college scholarships. SHA also boasts of 70 plus state athletic championships and of over 10,000 alumnae worldwide.  www.sacredheartacad.com.