128 Fremont Students Make List of National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program, including 128 students from Fremont.

The local students:

ALSION EARLY COLLEGE H. S.

1. Suresh, Vrinda
2. Varma, Anika

AMERICAN H. S.

1. Agrawal, Saisha
2. Bhattacharjee, Lily
3. Desai, Yash S.
4. Hsiao, Yi An Z.
5. Ilango, Kathir V.
6. Kapshikar, Purva K.
7. Kope, Raghavan M.
8. Lam, Alfred Y.
9. Maheshwari, Manasi
10. Mehta, Aakash A.
11. Qi, Ziyue
12. Rani, Rohan M.
13. Singh, Jaskirat
14. Tarver, Kathryn A.
15. Vishen, Arsh

FREMONT CHRISTIAN H. S.

1. Fu, Daniel
2. Wu, Leon Z.

HOMESCHOOL

1. Shah, Shalin

IRVINGTON H. S.

1. Anand, Varun
2. Chen, Caitlin Y.
3. Chen, Estella Y.
4. Chetlapalli, Karthik S.
5. Dai, Yiwen
6. Datta, Ahir
7. de Vera, Breanna N.
8. Gao, Andrew W.
9. Hsiao, Emily Y.
10. Huang, Michelle
11. Jain, Akanksha
12. Limary, Abigail
13. Mairal, Risheek
14. Munshani, Radhika S.
15. Patel, Yagnya G.
16. Singh, Jessica
17. Tietz, Allison S.
18. Walia, Anjali
19. Walia, Anushka

MISSION SAN JOSE H. S.

1. Agarwal, Alisha G.
2. Anand, Kartikeya
3. Bai, Derek J.
4. Baral, Jessika
5. Bhike, Prachit
6. Chan, Carlye
7. Chang, Ashley E
8. Chen, Arthur H.
9. Chen, Caroline J.
10. Chen, Jonathan A.
11. Chen, Yijan
12. Chew, Lydia
13. Choi, Andrew Y.
14. Choi, LyAnn
15. Choi, Mark S.
16. Choi, Tomas D.
17. Chong, Sarah
18. Deng, Sarah L.
19. Di, Christina
20. El-Sadany, Ali
21. Fung, Angus J.
22. Gade, Sandeep R.
23. Gao, Yunfeng
24. Ghosh, Sayan
25. Hiremath, Anup A.
26. Hsu, Aileen H.
27. Hsu, David S.
28. Huang, April
29. Jagannatha, Shubha
30. Jiang, Anthony
31. Jiang, Christina L.
32. Joseph, Anjali
33. Kim, William
34. Kothari, Shayna
35. Kundassery, Keshav
36. Kundu, Kousheyo
37. Lau, Justin G.
38. Lee, Amber
39. Li, James
40. Li, Kevin H.
41. Lim, Kyle K.
42. Lin, Kate S.
43. Liu, Jeffrey
44. Liu, Sabrina
45. Ming, Leon
46. Ni, Jeffrey A.
47. Njoo, Lucille
48. Prakash, Apoorva
49. Raina, Deeksha
50. Ramapriyan, Rishab
51. Sethuraman, Advaith V.
52. Shan, Howard
53. Shiang, Emily
54. Song, Lucas
55. Tam, Sarah P.
56. Tan, Erin
57. Tang, Monica
58. Tian, Kane X.
59. Tian, Stephen
60. Tsai, Lillian
61. Tseng, Brian C.
62. Tso, Jeanine
63. Tsui, Jennifer
64. Van, Grace
65. Varadarajan, Vignesh
66. Wang, Amanda X.
67. Wang, Chris
68. Wang, Hanlin
69. Wang, Yixin
70. Wong, Jason T.
71. Xian, Joshua Z.
72. Xiang, Katherine M.
73. Yin, Alex
74. Yin, Jason
75. Yu, Jennifer J.
76. Yuan, Charlotte
77. Zeng, Catherine
78. Zeng, William L.
79. Zhang, Aaron H.
80. Zhang, Emmanuelle Z.
81. Zhang, Lyon
82. Zhang, Michelle L.
83. Zhang, Stanley W.
84. Zhu, Eric

WASHINGTON H. S

1. Jawa, Moksh
2. Nguyen, Anh Q.
3. Shaik, Taj B.
4. Sharma, Abhishek
5. Zhang, Benjamin

These high school seniors are competing for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered next spring. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

According to NMSC, "The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors."

Between next April and July, the scholarships will be awarded. They fall into three categories:

National Merit Scholarships, corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards, and college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

The 1,000 National Merit Scholarships are each worth $2,500. The value of the other scholarships varies.

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