Hebert named a National Merit Scholarship winner

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Samual Hebert, of Eunice, has been named one of 3,200 National Merit Scholarship winners by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, of Evanston, Illinois.
The announcement stated Hebert, a graduate of Episcopal School of Acadiana, has a scholarship to the University of Chicago.
Hebert is the son of Drs. Chip and Charice Hebert, of Eunice.
The University of Chicago is small, private, coeducational, and residential; it has an international reputation for distinction.
The college, which as 3,425 undergraduate students, offers liberal arts training in over 60 areas; 3,100 students are enrolled in four graduate divisions and about 3,000 in seven graduate professional schools.
Since 1892, Chicago has drawn gifted students from around the world to its 165-acre campus and has offered unexcelled teaching and extensive library and research facilities.
Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution.
These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
An additional group of scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2017 competition to approximately 4,000.
This year, 182 higher education institutions are underwriting Merit Scholarship awards through the National Merit Scholarship Program. Sponsor colleges and universities include 103 private and 79 public institutions located in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Over 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.