National Merit Semifinalist 2024 Illinois State University. As a forestry major at southern illinois university at carbondale, reese focuses his studies on forest recreation and park management, often venturing outside the classroom. These are not final cutoffs, but are predicted based on extensive research and data.

Locally, those semifinalists include wesley reynolds and adrian rooney, triton high school, bourbon; The 2,500 national merit $2500 scholarship winners were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding finalists in the 2024 national merit scholarship program.