Johns Creek Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

JOHNS CREEK, GA — More than 50 high school students from Johns Creek 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:

CHATTAHOOCHEE HIGH SCHOOL

• Abaci, Devrim A.
• Anand, Dhruv D.
• Anandan, Saahas
• Cho, Yoon J.
• Edara, Suraj C.
• Gil, Isaac
• Joshi, Mihir H.
• Kantor, Lillian E.
• Lee, Daniel S.
• Lee, Joshua K.
• Leiderman, Daniel
• Luo, Jason
• Nanda, Sahaj
• Patwardhan, Akshay A.
• Ponomarev, Valerie S.
• Yuan, Max
• Zheng, Willa Y.
• Zhou, Jennifer L.

JOHNS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL

• Bao, Jason D.
• Bora, Aditya
• Chang, Eric L.
• Choi, Seoyeon
• Dhoot, Mehul S.
• Gupta, Pihu
• Haynes, Christian A.
• Hufnagel, Joss B.
• Jiang, Jinmeng G.
• Kim, Ethan J.
• Patel, Dhairya N.
• Rarer, John C.
• Suharno, Joseph M.
• Tsang, Austin J.
• Tzeng, Joshua
• Wang, Andrew H.

• Gansereit, William B.

NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

• Chakraborty, Raka
• Chandra, Boidik
• Chen, Hilary J.
• Gokhale, Aniruddha
• Gonella, Arnav S.
• Hu, Anna Y.
• Jeong, Jaeheon
• Kadiyala, Sumanth
• Kataria, Sameer
• Lee, Spencer R.
• Manekar, Pooja N.
• Mittal, Somya
• Muppidi, Srikar
• Ouyang, Julia A.
• Shi, William
• Singareddy, Suraj
• Tao, Alan
• Vaish, Ishita K.
• Wang, Yimo
• Zhang, Tyler

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.