Ten local students have been selected to receive National Merit Scholarships. Two more students have won corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarships.

The following 10 local students are among the 2,500 distinguished high school seniors who have won National Merit $2,500 Scholarships: Los Altos residents Eleanor J. Birrell, Los Altos High School; Benjamin Chen, Mountain View High School; Jocelyn T. Chin, MVHS; Joyce K. Ho, Castilleja School; Bryce C. Hoffman, LAHS; Julia L. Renaud, Castilleja; Kimberly D. Tran, St. Francis High School; and Los Altos Hills residents Charles A. Kang, Gunn High School; Wei Wei Liu, LAHS; Daniel P. Wenger, Woodside Priory School.

Two Los Altos residents are among 1,070 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards provided by 300 corporations, company foundations, and business organizations through the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Alan J. Richardson, Los Altos High, received a Xerox Foundation Merit Scholarship. Nicole E. Villeneuve, Sacred Heart Preparatory School, received a Knight-Ridder Merit Scholarship.