Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selects the highest-achieving students for its program. Approximately 16,000 students across the nation were selected as semi-finalists. All winners of the National Merit Scholarship award will be chosen based on their abilities, skills, and accomplishments. A variety of information is available for National Merit Scholarship selectors to evaluate this, including the finalist’s academic record, information about the school’s curricula and grading system, two sets of test scores, the high school official’s written recommendation, information about the student’s activities and leadership, and the finalist’s own essay according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
The following students were named National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists:
Cedar Ridge High School
Katherine L. Bong
Brendan M. Garvin
McNeil High School
Noah K.Higgins
Christopher Ho
Ethan I. Huang
Karthik Jayakumar
Gyu-Kang B. Lee
Michael R. Li
Yu En Lin
Round Rock Early College High School
Vibha Kannan
Round Rock High School
Marcus Vincent P. Alagar
Abhishek Bandaru
Andrew K. Chang
Emaan H. Chhatriwala
Caden A. Craig
Rishabh Dinesh
Dominik G. Djajadi
Anay A. Gujrathi
Tanishka Gupta
Katie Y. Ham
Yashika Kathuria
Evelyn W. Lee
Nikhil Parida
Ashish V. Prabhune
Allen R. Pratt
Uma M. Raman
Advaith Remesh
Sushant A. Sanklipur
Sneha Shekhar
Ronitha Tedla
Palak Thakkar
Neha A. Thomas
Catherine Tu
Ilter Y. Ulutas
Tao L. Wan
Skyler J. Yue
Muyang Zhou
Stony Point High School
Jackson R. Bell
Westwood High School
Soohyun Ahn
Ajith R. Bandlapalli
Andrew C. Bearse
Brandee J. Benson
Benjamin T. Bryant
William R. Bryant
Ryland P. Caballero>
Aarnav A. Chitari
Ava N. Dasari
Annetta Y. Davoli
Emma W. Dong>
Avyay Gupta
Aryan Harkawat
Minseong Jung
Neel Kakkad
Nitya Khurana
William L. Lei
Varshini Loganathan
Aditya Madhan
Aarav Mahesh
Ria S. Makaraju
Kaushik Nagarajan
Paras Nijhawan
Robert S. Ou
Riya B. Patil
Rithik S. Polavaram
Kavin Poovannan
Matthew X. Rao
Kate X. Ren
Aanchal L. Save
Dillon W. Shadowen>
Ravi D. Shah
Ishan Sharma
Nilay Surana
Ethan T. Tang
Grace Y. Wang
Haoze Wang
Phoebe Y. Wooster
Gloria Wu
Jason X. Xiong
Brooke L. Xu
Ethan L. Yang
Blake D. Zhang
Brian D. Zhang
Yochen Zhong