Two Arlington residents, Susanna Faas-Bush and Miranda Liang, have won National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.
Faas-Bush, whose probable career field is archaeology, won a scholarship through Oberlin College. She is a graduate of the Boston University Academy.
Liang, whose probably career field is medicine won a scholarship through Tufts University. She is a graduate of the Winsor School, Boston.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced this month that about 1,600 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities join about 2,500 other college-sponsored award recipients announced in May.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program 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, 181 colleges and universities are sponsoring about 4,100 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 106 private and 75 public institutions located in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
This story was published Monday, July 21, 2014.
