161 Fremont Students Are Semifinalists For The 2022 Nat'l Merit Scholarship Competition

FREMONT, CA — The 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists were announced on Wednesday, including 161 students from Fremont. Most attend Fremont Unified School District high schools.

The local students and their high schools are:

Alsion Montessori High School

1. Zhou, Alexander

American High School

1. Agarwal, Saanvi
2. Allam, Nishanth
3. Balaji, Mihika A.
4. Bhatia, Riya
5. Chaurasia, Aditi
6. Dharmapuri, Trisha
7. Garg, Ananya
8. Gautam, Dhruv
9. Ghosh, Subhon
10. Gona, Akshay
11. Goswami, Arjo
12. Govindu, Megha
13. Gupta, Ayush
14. He, Cody
15. Iyer, Vishwa A.
16. Jain, Tiya
17. Karra, Rohan
18. Karthikeyan, Harshini
19. Kim, Seo Yeon y.
20. Kumar, Maithili
21. Li, Aaron L.
22. Lui, Charmaine
23. Manga, Aishwarya P.
24. Murugupandiyan, Abinayaa
25. Patel, Neeraja
26. Prabahar, Thivya
27. Prabhakaran, Jagannath
28. Rajasekar, Haritha
29. Ramaswamy, Divya G.
30. Ravi, Rahul
31. Shah, Amani R.
32. Shah, Rhea J.
33. Singh, Anushka
34. Streater, Nathan D.
35. Thirumalai, Nikhil
36. Urgaonkar, Aarav
37. Varada, Keerti P.
38. Vijayakartik, Varsha
39. Wang, Frank N.
40. Wu, Maxine000 Wu, Selina
41. Ying, Jimmy L.
42. Zhi, Larry L.
43. Zhou, Runxin
44. Zia, Nyla

Circle of Independent Learning Charter School

1. Zhang, Eunice

Fremont Christian High School

1. Feng, Owen

Irvington High School

1. Abraham, Neha A.
2. Bansal, Dhruv
3. Chen, Kenny
4. Cheng, Jonathan
5. Deshpande, Tanvi M.
6. Fong, Stephanie H.
7. Gulati, Rohan000 Hu, Ethan
8. Javvaji, Siddhartha
9. Kan, Joseph K.
10. Khan, Zayaan
11. Lim, Jieun
12. Liu, Meixuan
13. Lu, Wanning
14. McKune, Sara
15. Mehta, Trishla
16. Murthy, Sumukh
17. Narendra, Rithwik I.
18. Phatak, Jay R.
19. Radharaj, Deeksha
20. Raghuwanshi, Rajveersing R.
21. Rao, Leo
22. Samanta, Siona
23. Seth, Rithwik
24. Shah, Aaryan
25. Shih, Evan
26. Subramanian, Ramya
27. Vu, Samuel M.
28. Wong, Madison J.
29. Wong, Nichelle
30. Yan, Edward
31. Yo, Clement
32. Zhao, Colin B.
33. Zhong, Elaine Y.

John F. Kennedy High School

1. Conner, Jack W.

Mission San Jose High School

1. Adiraju, Sahithi
2. Alladi, Sahiti
3. Arora, Shubh -
4. Baidyaroy, Ajeyo A.
5. Chandra, Ameya
6. Chen, Albert Z.
7. Chen, Allen H.
8. Cheng, Yuyuan
9. Cheung, Jacqueline A.
10. Choudhary, Rohit K.
11. Chuang, Cheryl J.
12. Dalmia, Tushar
13. Donepudi, Sriya
14. Duvvuri, Nihar L.
15. Gurnani, Harsh M.
16. Han, Vivian
17. He, Daphne
18. He, Isabella K.
19. Hsieh, Gloria E.
20. Jagathesan, Advaith
21. Jhawar, Dishita
22. Kainth, Krrish
23. Ko, Naomi T.
24. Kommineni, Kapil S.
25. Kommu, Veena S.
26. Krishnan, Athul
27. Kuang, Anna
28. Kuang, Sara H.
29. Kulkarni, Mythri V.
30. Kulkarni, Shreya S.
31. Kundu, Saborni
32. Lee, Ashton Y.
33. Lin, Chloe L.
34. Lu, Katie C.
35. Lu, Kevin
36. Luo, Stanley
37. Ma, Nick Y.
38. Madabhushi, Saaketh R.
39. Malhotra, Jayden
40. Misra, Alexzendor
41. Morumganti, Aditi
42. Murthy, Chinmay P.
43. Muthukrishnan, Kaushik
44. Najeeb, Sahil
45. Nandyala, Shreya
46. Palaka, Ragalina Y.
47. Pang, Amanda
48. Panguluri, Anvay S.
49. Panguluri, Tanmay S.
50. Parhy, Medhashree
51. Pau, Megan
52. Rai, Ansh
53. Rangarajan, Vignesh H.
54. Rao, Arnav K.
55. Rao, Yamuna
56. Sethuraman, Dhanya
57. Shah, Diya
58. Sriram, Sathvik
59. Sun, Lucas
60. Suresh, Tarun
61. Tang, Alex
62. Wang, Andrew S.
63. Wang, Mingxin H.
64. Wong, Jackie
65. Wu, Jeslyn
66. Xue, Yawen
67. Yan, Kelly J.
68. Yu, Jessica
69. Yu, Kailyn J.
70. Zhan, Julia
71. Zhang, Zachary Z.

Washington High School

1. Bhatia, Jiya
2. Chandler, Matthew
3. Chandrasekhar, Sameera
4. Iyengar, Aditya
5. Kaur, Japleen
6. Makkar, Rohan
7. Nair, Mehul
8. Peng, Jack
9. Sivaprabhu, Rishitha

These students are among some 16,000 national semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

They will compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million. The scholarships will be awarded next spring and summer.

The semifinalists where chosen after they took the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

The number of semifinalists in each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Next, semifinalists and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, incuding academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.

The semifinalists must also write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

Finalists will be announced in February. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group.

There are three types of 2022 National Merit Scholarships:

• 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis.
• 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations.
• 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.