Eleven Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students have been named semifinalists in the 2011 Morehead-Cain Scholarship program.
Carrboro High School semifinalists are Neel Patel and Jordan Thomas; Chapel Hill High School semifinalists are Jane Chen, Galen Burns-Fulkerson, Kyle Villemain and Emily Werk; and East Chapel Hill High School semifinalists are Joanna Barros-Magalhaes, Nina Henage, Clark Cunningham, Susan Cavendar and Jenny Sun.
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship program selects students who demonstrate excellence in moral force of character, scholarship, physical vigor and leadership. Less than 4 percent of program applicants are admitted.
Semifinalists will participate in interviews in mid-January and scholarship recipients will be announced March 3.