Tyler Legacy senior named National Merit Semifinalist

TYLER – Shobhit Gupta, recently opened his front door to applause from Tyler ISD administrators who were there to let the Tyler Legacy High School senior know he was selected to receive National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalist honors. Gupta now joins less than one percent of high school seniors in the nation to earn the recognition. More than 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Students reaching the Semifinals level are those with the highest scores in the state. Finalists will be named in February will receive scholarship funds in one of three different scholarship levels.