TYLER, Texas (KETK) - The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced the names of six East Texas students who are semifinalists in their yearly scholarship competition.

For the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program, more than 16,000 juniors who took the PSAT were selected as semifinalists to compete for 6,390 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million.

The following East Texas students have been named as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program this year: • Nora Ni of the Brook Hill Upper School • Owen W. Bewersdorf of Lindale High School • Odin M. Burks of Lindale High School • Emily Willardson of Pine Tree High School • Mallory A. Thornton of Hudson High School • Zachary H. Mitchell of Whitehouse High School

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