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8 Named National Merit Semifinalists
These Cherokee County School District seniors are eligible to compete for 8,300 scholarships worth more than $32 million.
Eight Cherokee County area high school seniors were recently named 2013 National Merit semifinalists.
The designation, which is based on performance on the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, allows the students to compete for about 8,300 scholarships worth more than $32 million.
Cherokee's class of 2013 bested last year's graduating class, which had a total of seven semifinalists. Of that number, only three were enrolled in a school in Cherokee's district. The remaining four were in private school or homeschooled in Cherokee.
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