{"id":12249,"date":"2021-03-08T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12249"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:40:33","slug":"magnet-students-designated-national-merit-commended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/magnet-students-designated-national-merit-commended\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnet Students Designated National Merit Commended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <strong>Quintan Ajluni<\/strong> and <strong>Syrena Stewart<\/strong> for being selected as National Merit Commended Students in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program!\u00a0 More than 1.5 million students entered the competition with only 50,000 being selected to advance.\u00a0 Of the 50,000, approximately 34,000 were designated as <em>Commended<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12250\" src=\"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ajluni-Quintan-NM-Commended-2020-2021-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ajluni-Quintan-NM-Commended-2020-2021-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ajluni-Quintan-NM-Commended-2020-2021-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ajluni-Quintan-NM-Commended-2020-2021.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12251\" src=\"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stewart-Syrena-NM-Commended-2020-2021-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stewart-Syrena-NM-Commended-2020-2021-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stewart-Syrena-NM-Commended-2020-2021-814x1024.jpg 814w, https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stewart-Syrena-NM-Commended-2020-2021-768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caddomagnet.net\/magnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stewart-Syrena-NM-Commended-2020-2021.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Quintan Ajluni and Syrena Stewart for being selected as National Merit Commended Students in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program!\u00a0 More than 1.5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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