103 Round Rock ISD students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists, following the annual announcement by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selects the highest achieving students for its program. Approximately 15,000 students across the nation were selected as finalists. All winners of the National Merit Scholarship award are chosen from the finalist group based on their abilities, skills and accomplishments. A variety of information is available for National Merit Scholarship selectors to evaluate 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.
Approximately 7,600 National Merit Scholarship awards winners will be announced by June, according to the organization.
The following students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists:
Cedar Ridge High School
Vincent Tran
Ian Kennedy
McNeil High School
Truman Arthur
Anshul Gulati
Carissa Keng
Darshan Koushik
Polina Lee
Manav Lund
Kanthi Makineedi
Prithvi Menon
Aniruddh Mishra
Saket Mugunda
Zayd Nadir
Uzair Nawaz
Elizabeth Pieper
Carter Poore
Round Rock High School
Nathaniel Autry
Sean Chang
Madison Chapman
Heonjae Cheong
Hiya Dattani
Sucharitha Gotham
Krishna Grandhe
Nicolas Hermoza
Mallika Jade
Karina Kosheleva
Morris Lin
Keira Padavil
Kashvi Panjolia
Kripa Philip
Parul Sadasivuni
Toby Saunders-Acourt
Diya N. Shrawagi
Risha Vankalapati
Prajith Velcheti
Stony Point High School
Anand Swami
Westwood High School
Lasya Adivi
Amoli Agarwal
Manika Aggarwal
Adarsh Ambekar
Sanjay Amirthraj
Jyotsna Arunkumar
Anandatheertha Bapu
Luke Brandes
Emilia Cichocki
Vijay Dagupati
Aditi Dalal
Venthan Dinesh
Akshay Gaitonde
Aaditya Ganesan
Shreya Ganti
Alice Guo
Arsh Gupta
Susan Hamilton
Kevin Han
Benjamin He
Steven He
Aanika Hirode
Anna Irmetova
Ashish Jacob
Brian Jeon
Pranav Katragadda
Kavita Kohli
Valentia Larina
David Lee
Hyunjae Lee
Jessica Li
Ethan Liu
Sophia Louie
Arnav Machavarapu
Aakanksha Mahajan
Aria Merchant
Ishanvi Mishra
Suhaas Patil
Srihasa Penchikala
Prithiv Premkumar
Jessamine Qu
Akhila Rajesh
Rajonna Sen
Sofia Shah
Ishaan Sharma
Sohum Sharma
Joyce Shen
Cassandra Smith
Elie Soloveichik
Prayag Sreenivasan
Armaan Srireddy
Anupama Subramanian
Ariel Sun
Jasmine Sureka
Brandi Tai
Yashwitha Thindi
Shreya Tiwari
Aneesh Vanguri
Vibha Velur
Hanyu Wei
Ai Wu
Anya Yaksh
Olivia Yang
Wesley Yeung
Sophia Zhong
Cindy Zhu
Caroline Zhuang