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BrainworX Student National Merit Scholar

Student from SJCOE Venture Academy Family of Schools earns rare distinction

 

Not many students have what it takes to become a National Merit Scholar, but Jasper Gebhardt is one of them.

The graduating senior from BrainworX at San Joaquin County Office of Education’s Venture Academy Family of Schools is one of only four students from San Joaquin County schools to earn that distinction.

To reach this point, students were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors from across the country who looked at everything from academic record, standardized-test scores, recommendations and leadership in school and community activities. When the competition from the nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corporation began, there were 1.4 million juniors from about 22,000 high schools competing.

That number gets winnowed down to only 7,600 Merit Scholars. But Jasper is an exemplary student. He started at BrainworX at age 11 and he was admitted into Princeton at the age of 14.

To read more about this amazing student in this profile in The Record, please click here.

Posted: 5/20/2015