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Cameron Wiley Commended

Published Wednesday, November 10, 1999 in the Nevada County Picayune

Paula Cossey, counselor at Prescott High School, has announced that Cameron Wiley is one of more than 3,300 Achievement Program participants being commended to U.S colleges and universities.

He scored in the top five percent of over 100,000 black Americans who requested consideration in the year 2000 Achievement Program when they took the 1998 PSAT/NMSQT.

Wiley is being commended to about 1,600 of the nation's four-year colleges and universities.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program, initiated in 1964, is a privately financed academic competition open only to black American high school students. The annual competition is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which also conducts the merit program that is open to all U.S. high school students.


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