Millburn High School has 12 National Merit Semifinalists, and they all have been selected as finalists in the 2010 Competition for National Merit Scholarships.

They are Julianna Brunini, Amy Chen, Maia Cole, Michael Davis, Angela Du, Rachel Finkel, Caleb Kao, Marisa Karchin, Timothy Matchen, Mayabea Shechner, Andrew Spelman and Caroline Tan.
 
More than 1.5 million students in nearly 22,000 high schools across the country entered the program as juniors by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.  The nationwide pool of 16,000 Semifinalists included the highest scoring entrants in each state, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
 
To become finalists, these twelve students had to maintain a record of very high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.  They also submitted a detailed scholarship application, which included a self-descriptive essay and information about the student's participation and leadership in school and community activities.
 
The selection of approximately 8,200 merit scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 finalists is now in progress.  The merit scholarship awards, worth roughly $51 million, will be announced in the spring.
 
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the academic competition, is a privately financed, not-for-profit corporation established in 1955.  Merit Scholarship awards are underwritten by NMSC's own funds as well as by approximately 500 business organizations and higher education institutions.