TOLEDO—Two students from Toledo St. Ursula Academy are among 800 outstanding Black American high school seniors nationwide who have won Achievement Scholarship awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

Amelia Wolf and Valeri Wolf each are receiving $2,500 scholarships. Awards nationwide total nearly $2 million dollars, and are financed by grants from approximately 35 corporate organizations and professional associations, and by National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed academic competition established in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented Black American youth, and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in each annual competition. The program is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance.

Achievement Scholar designees include 700 recipients of National Achievement $2,500 scholarships. All students who advanced to the finalist level in the 2010 competition were considered for these single-payment scholarships, which were awarded on a regional representation basis, in proportion to the population of Black Americans in each geographic region.