Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta honored senior Marco Concha as its finalist in the 2025 Competition for National Merit Scholarship Program after the school’s annual Annunciation Mass on March 25.
Concha is one of 15,000 students selected as finalists. Finalists represent the top one percent of participants in the PSAT/NMSQT tests. Each year, nearly 1.5 million students enter the National Merit program. Finalists will undergo another process where roughly 6,870 students will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners.
“We are proud of Marco and his incredible achievement,” said Gene Emering, Pope John’s principal. “We pray for his success as he moves on to the final selection process.”
