220 San Diego Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

SAN DIEGO, CA — Hundreds of San Diego area students were recently named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced.

The students are among more than 16,000 semifinalists in the running to be named a National Merit Scholar, and receive a $2,500 scholarship to help them further their education. About 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million will be awarded next spring, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

To become a finalist, semifinalists must submit a detailed application that provides information about their academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. They must also be recommended by a high school official, receive SAT or ACT scores high enough to qualify, and write an essay.

About 95 percent of semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of finalists are expected to win a National Merit Scholarship, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Of the 220 semifinalists from the San Diego region, six are from Carlsbad, two are from Chula Vista, one is from Coronado, three are from Encinitas, two are from Escondido, 27 are from La Jolla, one is from Oceanside, one is from Poway, one is from Ramona, 173 are from San Diego, two are from San Marcos, and one is from Solana Beach.

Here are the San Diego County semifinalists:

CARLSBAD

LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL

• Brandenburg, Maddox M.
• Quain, Ryan M.

PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL

• Bhakta, Shaan N.

SAGE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL

• Cho, Danbi
• Desigar, Neha
• Schmitt, Aaron

CHULA VISTA

EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL

• Nguyen, Khang Ninh N.
• Wong, Alyssa N.

CORONADO

CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL

• Langevin, Gabriel D.

ENCINITAS

SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY

• Adami, Evan C.
• Galbraith, Ruby D.
• Yoo, Justin J.

ESCONDIDO

CLASSICAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOL

• Gavin, Liliana N.
• Peace, Seth E.

LA JOLLA

THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL

• Ai, Paulina J.
• Buu-hoan, Marcus B.
• Chen, Eric J.
• Cluskey, William
• Ge, Katherine
• Gover, Lily
• Guo, Yufan
• Hollingshead, Benjamin R.
• Jin, Elizabeth
• Li, Sabrina J.
• Li, Sienna R.
• Rupesh, Bhadra
• Tu, Yi
• Verma, Sofia
• Xiao, Jennifer
• Xiong, Nathan W.
• Yang, Emily
• Yin, Yue
• Zhang, Serena L.

LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

• Mackin, Mason S.

LA JOLLA HIGH SCHOOL

• Choi-Fitzpatrick, Eden J.
• Hou, Angie J.
• Krebs, Reid N.
• Lewis, Simon
• Madani, Ariyan A.
• McGreevy, Isaac Z.
• Weinstein, Solomon A.

OCEANSIDE

MISSION VISTA HIGH SCHOOL

• Palizzolo, Salvatore

POWAY

POWAY HIGH SCHOOL

• Mandegar, Lucy F.

RAMONA

RAMONA HIGH SCHOOL

• Pratt, Kathryn R.

SAN DIEGO

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL

• Lu, Angel Y.
• Lu, Rachel Y.
• Tianshi, Kyle P.

CANYON CREST ACADEMY

• Aivazian, Lucia E.
• Anusha Vijayanand, Anita Laya
• Bao, Jiayuan
• Bei, Bruce J.
• Bolaris, Kai
• Chang, Melinda
• Chatha, Anusha
• Chen, Leon J.
• Combs, Aaron
• Dai, Annie
• Diva, Danica
• Driscoll, Grace
• Eghtedari, Hannah
• Fan, Michelle
• Gao, Runqi
• Garg, Aujus R.
• Garibaldi, Graham
• Goodsell, Kai L.
• Halpern, Hollis
• Han, Nathan
• Jhajhria, Yaj
• Jin, Joshua A.
• Jin, Weili
• John, David
• Kang, Claire Y.
• Khossravi, Emily A.
• Kim, Claire
• Lee, Claire
• Lee, Jacob H.
• Li, Benjamin
• Li, Eric
• Liew, Sheridan
• Liu, Cynthia Y.
• Luo, Evan
• Luo, Kevin
• Malladi, Shruti
• Maudal, Ava
• Payyappilly, Theresa
• Qu, Tony
• Reid, Emily
• Ren, William
• Samy, David
• Shi, Jack M.
• Song, Ethan R.
• Summers, Claudia
• Tatineni, Nitika
• Tiwari, Mihika
• Vetticaden, Vinay
• Wang, Amy
• Xu, Alex
• Xuan, Annika
• Yang, Elizabeth
• Yang, Hansi
• Yang, Zijin
• Ye, Vivian
• Yu, Andrew
• Zhang, Dora
• Zheng, Emily
• Zhou, Angelina

CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

• Lipski, Oscar
• Martin-Spencer, Joshua
• Zhang, Jessica

DEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL

• Ajith, Saathvika
• Aravind, Vishnu A.
• Busse, Brianna
• Chang, Gene A.
• Feng, Conner B.
• Jiang, Alexander
• Juneja, Rohan
• Lee, Ellie
• Leeder, Toby Z.
• Meng, Andrew
• Nahavandi, Arya A.
• Ni, Vivian Z.
• Park, Sophie S.
• Patila, Riya
• Sinha, Vardaan
• Tan, Alex H.
• Tong, Haoxuan
• Wang, Andrea
• Wang, Nicholas Z.
• Wu, Aidan Y.
• Wu, Lily
• Yeager, Darren J.
• Zhai, Alexander W.
• Zhang, Daisy
• Zhang, Jocelyn E.
• Zhang, Leo

PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL

• Castillo, Maxwell S.

HIGH TECH HIGH INTERNATIONAL

• Murphy, Cole L.

JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL

• Baxter, Sarah T.
• Moscola, Lucia Y.

MIRA MESA HIGH SCHOOL

• Ly, Sean Q.
• Ngo, Olivia N.
• Steadman, Aleister M.

MISSION BAY HIGH SCHOOL

• Long, Chelsea A.

MOUNT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL

• Kanamarlapudi, Hasita

MOUNT EVEREST ACADEMY

• Papen, Alexander

FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL

• Duncan, Colin
• Duong, An-Di
• Folk, Benjamin
• Kondap, Kavish

POINT LOMA HIGH SCHOOL

• Fisher, Cole M.
• Sturak, Ian H.

RANCHO BERNARDO HIGH SCHOOL

• Allen, Forrest L.
• Holden, Sara E.
• Jang, Dawn
• Lal, Shaunak
• Lee, Mason S.
• Malik, Roshan
• Maruthavelu, Preena
• Nucci, Andrew W.
• Ryou, Hyunseo
• Style, Kaelyn J.
• Wang, Erica X.
• Zhang, Rebecca L.

SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY

• Jinich, Marc

SCRIPPS RANCH HIGH SCHOOL

• Kim, Mina E.
• Lee, Daniel
• Nayak, Anirudh S.
• Radhachandran, Aathmika M.
• Rengaraj, Janoj
• Sridharan, Agastya
• Tran, Ethan Q.

ST. AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL

• Velarde-Alvarez, Romeo N.

TORREY PINES HIGH SCHOOL

• Challa, Amrutha L.
• Freedman, Robert
• Ge, Chris C.
• Hunt, Caroline R.
• Jiang, Caden Z.
• Kabakibi, Rami N.
• Kim, Phoenix
• Kocian-Rudenberg, Sarah E.
• Kong, Rebecca L.
• Kwon, Minseo
• Liu, Elliott W.
• Pan, Justin J.
• Rizzo, Jacopo A.
• Shen, Edison C.
• Silver, Alexandra R.
• Wang, Arthur Z.
• Wong, Ethan Y.
• Xie, Nathan
• Xue, Cindy
• Ye, Qiyang

UNIVERSITY CITY HIGH SCHOOL

• Radulescu, Alexander G.

WESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

• Iyer, Rahul A.
• Jogadhenu, Rahul R.
• Kim, Ryan G.
• Kuo, Kaze C.
• Li, Elizabeth Z.
• Lo, Mia J.
• Lu, Daniel L.
• Maher, Daniel J.
• Nicolas, Zeina S.
• Pourghasem, Parsa
• Rogers, Aidan K.
• Shah, Rajvi M.
• Sharma, Navyaa
• Shen, Lucy D.
• Shi, Eric
• Tran, Thomas T.
• Trivedi, Nirja J.
• Wang, Anthony J.
• Waseem, Danial
• Yang, Joshua
• Yu, Emily
• Zhang, Alex Q.
• Zhang, Justin W.
• Zheng, Michael H.

SAN MARCOS

SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL

• Jiang, Celina
• Lycett, Cole R.

SOLANA BEACH

SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

• Melehan, Connor D.