Madison residents receive National Achievement scholarships

Four Madison residents have been awarded achievement scholarship awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

These residents are:

    Caleb J. Bradford

    Michaela J. Brown     

    Imani J. Tucker

    Emanuel A. Waddell

The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed academic competition established in 1964 to honor scholastically talented Black American youth, and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in each annual competition.

More than 160,000 students entered the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship Program by requesting consideration when they took the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as high school juniors.

In September 2010, approximately 1,600 of the highest scorers were named semi?nalists on a regional representation basis. To advance further the students had to requirements for finalist standing, which included a record of consistently high academic performance, being endorsed and recommended by their high school, earning SAT scores that con?rm their PSAT/NMSQT performance and writing an essay.

Approximately 1,300 students advanced to the finalist level, and all National Achievement Scholarship winners were selected from this group of students.