FUHSD Boasts 135 National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists

The Fremont Union High School District is home to 135 National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists, with Monta Vista High School topping the list at 55 senior students qualifying, it was announced Wednesday.

Lynbrook is close behind with 53 Semi-finalists. Cupertino has 14, Homestead, 11, and Fremont, 2.

A list of names from each high school is below.

Across the nation there are 16,000 Semi-finalists, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced. Calling the students "academically talented high school seniors", officials said 8,300 will be awarded  more than $34 million in scholarships next spring.

Semi-finalists must fulfill several requirements for the next round of the competition. Officials said 90 percent of the Semi-finalists will become Finalists. Half of the Finalists will be awarded the National Merit Scholar title.

Approximately 1.5 million juniors from 22,000 high schools nationwide entered the competition by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

The national Semi-finalists — less than 1 percent of all U.S. high school seniors — represent the highest scoring students from each state.

Winners will be announced in four waves beginning in April and ending in July.

According to National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a not-for-profit institution financed by businesses and higher education institutions, next year's winners will join 283,000 "distinguished young people" who have earned the Merit Scholar title since 1955.

CUPERTINO HIGH SCHOOL

Bourai, Abdelwahab
Hemmady, Shona S.
Hsu, Christopher G.
Huang, William
Hui, Joseph
Jang, Eric V.
Lee, Michael
Luk, Lawrence W.
Martin, Douglas L.
Qiao, Jianyang
Shu, Jeffrey
Sriram, Shruthi
Suh, Hong
Ye, Sophie

FREMONT HIGH SCHOOL

Feldman, Bruce D.
Klier, Pavel E.

HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL

Bi, Chen-Hsi
Chen, Jing
Chen, Timothy
Chiu, Jessica H.
Du, Sophia C.
Freckmann, Tyler S.
Kaushal, Divya
Kawana, Keiko
Lee, Crystal
Rak, Anne K.
Wu, James

LYNBROOK HIGH SCHOOL

Aquino, Kaitlin E.
Chakravorty, Arun
Chang, Candace Y.
Chang, Emily
Chen, Austin L.
Chen, Elodie
Chen, Emilie
Chen, Jui Kang
Cheng, William S.
Cong, Ming
Cui, Dennis Z.
Day, Cynthia
Gubba, Virup S.
Guo, Frances P.
Hu, James K.
Hwang, Changchun
Jagadeesan, Viveka
Jia, James Y.
Jiang, Pengfei
Jin, Jason
Kalyanasundaram, Vishal
Kim, Diane S.

Kwan, Michelle Y.
Kwon, Jane
Lee, Chengyi
Li, Jack R.
Li, Kathy W.
Liu, Jeffrey Y.
Liu, Thomas
Pai, Karthika S.
Palanisamy, Ilakya
Pang, Alice F.
Peddada, Sandeep V.
Pokhriyal, Megha
Rathi, Kunal
Ro, Vicky
Schorow, Marcus K.
Shen, Eric T.
Shen, Healy
Shieh, Jocelyn C.
Sun, Shanying
Tu, Kevin B.
Vemulapalli, Karthik N.
Wang, Karen Y.
Wong, Andrew
Wu, Ashley
Xu, Kingston Z.
Xu, Wenxi
Yang, Emily H.
Yu, Katherine X.
Zhao, Brian B.
Zhao, Kelly
Zhu, Caroline

MONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL

Abidi, Faraz H.
Agrawal, Akshay K.
Ashok, Ashna
Bao, Jason S.
Bui, Sydnie B.
Chang, Kevin
Chang, Kevin Y.
Chitale, Nandini
DeBaets, Hannah E.
Desai, Aditya T.
Gaitonde, Anisha
Guo, Dan

Han, Kyutae
He, Jiatong
Hong, James
Hua, Avery C.
Hyon, Seongkeun
Iwamoto, Jessica E.
Jiang, Michelle
Kilambi, Anirudh S.
Kini, Hemanth B.
Lee, Victoria
Li, David H.
Lin, Jessie
Liu, Iris H.
Ma, Randy R.
Mandlekar, Ajay U.
Mehta, Nitisha
Nam, David K.
Oh, Jingyu
Rao, Priyanka
Ruckstuhl, Maxwell S.
Salgar, Svruchi
Shukla, Ansh
Sun, Philip
Suvarna, Anirudh N.
Swaminathan, Prashanth
Thomas, Amy E.
Trewitt, Erik J.
Tsai, Dickson H.
Wang, Edward C.
Wang, Jonathan W.
Wang, Tianjiao
Wang, Xiaoshan
Wu, Tiffany T.
Xie, Mengyuan
Xu, Sihua
Yan, Qinmeng
Yeh, Pete
Zhan, Chanel W.
Zhang, Angela
Zhang, Jeffery B.
Zhang, Kenny
Zhang, Lejia
Zhang, Stephanie K.

Names provided by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.