National Merit® Scholarship Corporation recently announced Emmaus High School student Stephanie Sipics, of Macungie, as among students who received National Merit® Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities.

Sipics received the National Merit® Case Western University Scholarship.

Sipics plans to pursue a career in biomedical engineering.

According to a media release from NMSC, officials of each sponsoring institution selected scholarship recipients from among the finalists in the 2020 National Merit® Scholarship Program who plan to attend their school. The scholarships provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

Case Western University is located in Cleveland, Ohio and offers programs in small residential colleges within the private university.

More than 1.5 million 11th grade students in approximately 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit® Scholarship Program when they took the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

Last fall, approximately 16,000 semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors.

To compete for scholarship awards, semifinalists advance to the finalist level of the competition by submitting a scholarship application, which included an essay, information about extracurricular activities, awards and leadership positions, an outstanding academic record, endorsement and recommendation by a high school official, and earn qualifying SAT® or ACT® scores.

Sipics is also an Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, a violinist and a pianist.

She also placed first in the behavior and social sciences category of the Lehigh Valley Science and Engineering Fair in her junior year at EHS.