MEAP mystery: Students don't win scholarships, but state can't say how they fell short : "Nearly 65 percent of the 103,000 students who now are seniors are being told they didn't do well enough to get the cash, but there are no other details.

'We were just kind of shocked, because she's done so well in the past,' Karen DeShane of Ada Township said about her daughter, Stacie.



The letter said Stacie, a Forest Hills Northern High School senior, did not qualify for the merit award and instructed her to contact her school for more information. But her counselor couldn't help because the state has not released students' individual MEAP results to schools.



'It's very frustrating,' Karen DeShane said.



The state was supposed to release the scores in April but postponed it, citing problems with a new database that will allow for the tracking of students from year to year. "