United ISD Students Earn National Hispanic Recognition Title from College Board
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Courtesy Alex Meyer,
(Laredo, Texas)-A total of 37 United ISD high school students earned the coveted 2020-21 award from the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program, which identifies academically outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students.
To be eligible for this award, students must meet the following requirements:
· Take the PSAT/NMSQT in October of their junior year
· Be of at least one-quarter Hispanic/Latino
· Achieve the minimum required PSAT/NMSQT Selection Index score
· Earn a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 or higher by the middle of their junior year.
The College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program identifies academically outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students. Each year, the NHRP honors about 5,000 of the highest-scoring students from over 250,000 Hispanic/Latino juniors who take the PSAT/NMSQT. These students are from the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands, as well as U.S. citizens attending schools aboard. Approximately 200 of the top-scoring PAA™ students from Puerto Rico are also included
“On behalf of our Board of Trustees, I would like to congratulate these exceptional high school students for going above and beyond their academic pursuits. May they continue to be educational role models for their peers and we wish them continued success in the future,” said United ISD Superintendent Roberto J. Santos.
