A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented to the students by the SHG principal Sister Margaret Joanne Grueter, OP.

About 34,000 commended students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit awards, commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2014 competition by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

For more information about the National Merit Scholarship Program or SHG's academic programs, please call the school office at (217) 787-1595.