{"id":400833,"date":"2026-07-16T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:15:08","slug":"more-oc-graduates-announced-as-2026-national-merit-scholarship-winners-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400833\/","title":{"rendered":"More OC graduates announced as 2026 National Merit scholarship winners \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven more Orange County high school graduates join the ranks nationwide to earn college-sponsored scholarships through the National Merit program.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced additional scholarship recipients following its early June release of more than 2,500 scholarship winners across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The latest announcement makes 22 Orange County students among this year\u2019s class of recipients of the college-sponsored scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships range from $500 to $2,000 per year and can be renewed for up to four years of undergraduate study.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, students must take the 2024 PSAT\/NMSQT as juniors and advance through the semifinalist and finalist categories of the National Merit program.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the National Merit program expects nearly $24 million in scholarships for undergraduate study to be awarded to about 6,500 high school graduates this year, officials of the program said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/06\/03\/11-orange-county-high-school-students-among-2026-national-merit-scholars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the 11scholarship winners previously announced here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the additional scholarship winners announced:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Roger Y. Li, of Fullerton, Troy High: National Merit Case Western Reserve University Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alexander K. Nguyen, of Fullerton, Troy High: National Merit University of Texas at Dallas Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Saanya M. Patel, of Fullerton, Troy High: National Merit University of Maryland Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jordan Chu, of Irvine, Northwood High: National Merit Boston University Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bijou Young Park, of Irvine, Northwood High: National Merit USC Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Anika Nunes, of Lake Forest, Fairmont Preparatory Academy: National Merit USC Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Abigail Ko, of Newport Coast, Sage Hill School: National Merit Tufts University Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brady Bai, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Sage Hill School: National Merit USC Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jonathan M. Groner, of Tustin, Tarbut V\u2019Torah Community Day School: National Merit Southern Methodist University Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mattea L. Kim, of Tustin, Beckman High: National Merit Vanderbilt University Scholarship<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Avni A. Patil, of Yorba Linda, Troy High: National Merit Harvey Mudd College Scholarship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven more Orange County high school graduates join the ranks nationwide to earn college-sponsored scholarships through the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,15,8600,100,611,136],"class_list":["post-400833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-education","tag-graduation","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}