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Meridian accepting applications for high school merit scholarship

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December 6, 2019

Meridian is accepting applications for its second annual high school merit scholarship for North Carolina students. Applications will be accepted  through April 10. 

"Last year was the inaugural year of our high school merit scholarship and it was an overwhelming success," Meridian CBO Christa Gilder said in a press release. "We are excited to once again be able to offer the Meridian high school merit scholarship to a deserving student from North Carolina." 

In its first year, the scholarship received nearly 100 applications from graduating seniors across the state.

All students currently enrolled in a North Carolina high school who are graduating in the spring of 2020 are welcome to submit an application. Applicants must have at least a 3.0 unweighted GPA and be planning to attend a two- or four-year North Carolina college or university following graduation. 

To apply, students are asked to complete an online application form and submit an essay response to one of five unique prompts about self-service solutions — how they've made their lives easier, where they see them heading in the future, how they're impacting the customer experience, how they've affected manufacturing, or how they would personally change them. Thoughtful and creative responses are encouraged.

Submitted applications will be reviewed by an internal scholarship board and awarded based on overall quality, creativity and completeness of submitted essays. One student will be selected to receive the one-time award of $1,000. Scholarship funds must be used to pay for qualified expenses, including tuition, books and/or room and board for the 2020-2021 school year.