Billerica resident selected as National Merit Scholar

Emma Tilley, of Billerica, a senior at Reading’s Austin Preparatory School, was selected as a National Merit Scholar.Tilley is one of 2,500 seniors from across the country to earn this achievement, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. More than 1.5 million students qualify initially by receiving high scores on the PSATs. From there, the list is cut twice more before the scholars are chosen.Recipients are judged to have the strongest combination of [...]