Bliss and Bell Named National Merit Scholarship Commended Students

Seniors Douglas Bell and Andrew Bliss have been named Commended Students in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from L-S High School and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, was presented by the principal to these scholastically talented students.

About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2020 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).