Three juniors at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas have met the requirements to enter the 2013 National Merit Scholarship competition.

Brooke Dippo-Foderaro, Zephyrine Parten and Patrick Wickham are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants out of 1.5 million program entrants who took the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

About 34,000 high scorers will be named Commended Students and will receive notification in September. Approximately 16,000 will become semifinalists in the program, to be announced in February 2013.