Two Pattonville High School seniors have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Megan LaFollette and Joseph Wingerter qualified for this honor after their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which serves as the initial screening of program entrants. -Read-More- The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. LaFollette and Wingerter are two of 16,000 seniors nationwide who now have the opportunity to advance to the finalist level. Merit scholarship winners are chosen from the finalist group. -End-