Recent Suttons Bay High School graduate Sam Faught, son of Dave and Carolyn Faught of Omena, was awarded five separate scholarships that will be applied when he attends the University of Michigan this fall.

Faught will be one of 150 incoming students in the college of Literature Science and the Arts, which awarded Faught the dean’s scholarship. The LSA scholarship is based on academic merit, personal achievement, extracurricular activities, awards, community service, leadership qualities and academic potential.

LSA dean’s scholarships cover full tuition and are renewable for four years.

Also applicable is the University of Michigan’s regents merit scholarship, which was awarded to Faught and some 525 of the approximately 7,800 admitted freshman from Michigan high schools based on academic achievement. It provides an award of $1,500 for the first year of studies.

Faught also earned the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, a federally funded program administered by the state of Michigan. The merit-based program provides approximately 175 awards to the estimated 100,000 Michigan high school graduates of $1,500 per year for up to four years to those who have achieved academic excellence.

Each spring, high school principals nominate one outstanding graduating senior based on high school academic achievement and college aptitude test scores.

Faught was also awarded a scholarship from the Ida Palmer Weigand Memorial Endowment, a local scholarship awarded in memory of Ida Palmer Weigand, the county’s first schoolteacher. The scholarship is awarded to the male and female student from Suttons Bay High School with the highest ACT score.

Faught also earned distinction as a Presidential Scholar Nominee and National Merit Finalist. Established in 1964, the U.S. Presidential Scholars program recognizes and honors some of the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Based on their scholastic achievement, 30 boys and 30 girls are nominated from each state for the honor.

National Merit Finalists are chosen from a pool of 1.4 million students nationwide based on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Of that group, 15,000 are chosen as finalists based on their test scores, as well as other academic and extracurricular achievements, and personal character.

Faught also earned the Michigan Promise scholarship, which provides up to $4,000 to high school graduates for successfully completing two years of post secondary education. To qualify for the Michigan Promise scholarship, a student must take the state assessment test.