EVANSTON, Ill. — A Pace student has earned a college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship.
Nathan C. Andreo, a Pace High School student who likely will study computer engineering, has earned a National Merit University of Florida Scholarship.
UF, a public university of about 34,000 undergraduates in Gainesville, has more than 100 undergraduate degree programs.
Andreo joins approximately 3,000 other college-sponsored award recipients announced in June.
Officials of each sponsor college selected scholarship winners from among National Merit Scholarship Program finalists who will attend their institution.
College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
This year’s competition for National Merit Scholarships began when over 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools took the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Pace student earns National Merit Scholarship