Mundelein High School senior Mariana Evangela Van Eycke has been named a Semifinalist in the prestigious National Merit Scholarship Program.

More than 16,000 students achieved the distinction of National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, representing less than 1 percent of high school seniors in the U.S.

More than 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

Mariana will compete for the 6,870 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $26 million, which will be announced in spring 2025.

Featured from left to right: Andrea Rusk, College Counselor, MHS senior Mariana Evangela Van Eycke, Stevee Libert, Assistant Principal of Student Life,  and Michael Souza, Interim Principal and Associate Principal of Operations.