East Cobb Students Reach Merit Semis

A total of 46 students from East Cobb schools have reached the semifinals of the National Merit Scholarship program, including 28 from and 16 from .

The program offers scholarship assistance to college-bound seniors who compete based on a variety of academic, community and other criteria. 

Here are the East Cobb semifinalists, most of whom are likely to reach the finalist stage: 

Pope High School: Alexander G. Williams

The Walker School: Joshua R. Zuckerman

Walton High School: Ali Abid; Jacob R. Albert; So R. Baek; Aaron R. Brauenstein; Slok J. Carpenter; Lana G. Davis; Tyler G. Durkota; Corey Greenwald; Alexander P. Gross; Cameron O. Harvey; Ryan A. Humble; Denny Jin; Bennett R. Kane; Esther H. Kim; Hyun T. Kim; Tatsuya Kudo; Tanner M. Landry; Thomas S. Layman; Mingzhao Liu; Sarah V. McQuade; Kah M. Ong; Benjamin P. Saco; Charles M. Wang; Emily J. Wang; Lisa Wang; Julia L. Whitten; Angie Zhang; Claus C. Zhang. 

Wheeler High School: Michael S. Biddle; Catherine F. Brock; Stephen E. Gillen; William C. Gutmann; Daniel E. Kreus; Keagan B. Long; Wayne Lu; Gautham V. Maran; Sameer Mishra; Deborah M. Paul; Pradeep S. Prathibha; Marc D. Singleton; Daniel Wolfson; Benjamin Yao; Lei Zhang; Edward Zhu.