TOLEDO—Toledo St. John’s Jesuit High School graduate Laurence Baibak has been awarded a college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship by Xavier University in Cincinnati.

He is one of more than 1,900 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities joining more than 2,800 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in late May.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their winners from among finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

This year 201 colleges and universities are sponsoring about 4,900 Merit Scholarship awards.

This final group of winners brings the number of 2010 National Merit Scholars to approximately 8,400. These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of approximately $36 million.