Forsyth County Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

FORSYTH COUNTY, GA — More than 50 high school students from Forsyth County have been named semifinalists for a 2021 National Merit Scholarship.

The group are among about 16,000 high-school seniors nationwide who will go on to compete for National Merit scholarships worth more than $30 million to be offered next spring.

They are:

• Faraz, Akram M.
• Shankar, Sanjanna

• Boyeneni, Siddharth
• Flores, Trinidad
• Ghanta, Siddharth V.
• Goel, Varun
• Kumaran, Hari Krishna
• Lafferty, Isabella R.
• Mohan, Diya
• Nune, Veda S.
• Oleti, Manasi
• Oswald, Emma J.
• Ramesh, Advika
• Thakur, Aryan

FIDELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

• Murphy, Robert C.

• Evans, Beatrice V.

FORSYTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

• Lofgren, Riley J.
• Panda, Ayush
• Shanmugam, Ashriitha G.
• Tozier, Shannon K.

HOMESCHOOL

• Jayakumar, Nithya K.

LAMBERT HIGH SCHOOL

• Feng, Skyler S.
• Hong, Ruth E.
• Howard, Kayla M.
• Kim, Justin
• Kim, Noah M.
• Kishore, Krishi
• Lee, Jacob M.
• Liu, Jonathan
• Mettupalli, Sindhura
• Palled, Apoorva P.
• Pateel, Varun
• Patel, Soumya N.
• Ramos Grangeia Carva, Nuno M Ramos Grangeia
• Rath, Sudipta
• Ryu, Justin
• Soo, Patrick
• Sun, Kevin H.
• Wu, Michelle C.
• Zhang, John
• Zhao, Nina L.
• Zhou, Elin

NORTH FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL

• Malone, Owen P.

SOUTH FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL

• Atluru, Avinash S.
• Bryant, Wesley T.
• Durbin, Riley A.
• Gebhardt, James C.
• Hempker, Benjamin J.
• Joshi, Anjali K.
• Manchanda, Riya
• McLean, Katelyn R.
• Munagapati, Pranavvarma V.
• Pentela, Dhriti
• Surapaneni, Akshitha D.
• Vavilikolanu, Aadarsh
• Yin, Kristine S.

More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists, and more than half of those will win National Merit scholarships.

High-school juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in 2019.