Cobb Students Earn National Merit Scholarship Semifinals

DECATUR, GA. -- Several Cobb high school seniors have been named among the 16,000 semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The students have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring. Over 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half
of those will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

They are:

KENNESAW MOUNTAIN H. S.

Nicholas J. Dentice
Grant J. Gilcrease
Tylar P. Gregg
Dimitrios A. Kidonakis
Dorian E. Kidonakis
Lily H. Kim
Joshua R. Vollbracht
Harrison D. White
Emily K. Williams
Christina M. Woodrow

NORTH COBB H. S.

Rebekah R. Geil

WHITEFIELD ACADEMY
Caleb C. Corliss
Zachary P. Justice
Donovan W. Pearce

MARIETTA HOMESCHOOL
Caroline K. Solomon
Matthew Tikhonovsky

LASSITER H. S.
Sophia D. Babish
Eric Chow
Dennis G. Goldenberg
Peter R. Jacobson
Carter B. Johnson
Carter H. Kubes
Peyton R. Lamb
Delia K. Pung
Audrey J. Safir
Dylan Walters

ALAN C. POPE H. S.
Jacob T. Evans
Griffin W. Haarbauer
Edward C. Kokan
Maya Nambiar
Olivia D. Popovich

WALTON H. S.
Albert Chen
David Cornell
Alison Cumberledge
Thomas DeBoer
Ava Edmunds
William Ellsworth
Eashan Gandotra
Vineet Gangireddy
Nicholas Hong
Emma Hunt
Jeffrey Key
Darren Kosen
Varun Krishnaswamy
Grace Lee
Ryan Li
Jesse Liu
Arundhati Mahendrakar
Isha Palakurthy
Anika Park
Sara Patyi
David Phillips
Varsha Ramachandra
Alice Shen
Daniel Shu
Elizabeth Sims
Albert Ting
Illahi Virani
Jayson Wu
Kevin Wu
Grace Xu
Margaret Zhang

WHEELER H. S.
Saman A. Bhamani
Fianko Buckle
Mariah K. Butts
Caden M. Felton
Ayush Goyal
Adith Guna
Vanessa I. Leonardo
Andrew J. Mayne
Arya N. Mevada
Shivam A. Patel
Abhinav Piplani
Shraddha Sekhar
Keshav K. Shenoy
Rebecca G. Simonson
Hanna E. Waltz
David M. Weinberg
Zachary R. Yahn

POWDER SPRINGS HOMESCHOOL
Megan A. McCabe

SMYRNA CAMPBELL H. S.
Avery R. Bradley
Alexander R. Eaton
Kiran Gourisankar
Tarannum M. Lakdawala
Quentin P. Mot
Luccas L. Shang

Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 230 corporations and business organizations for finalists who meet their specified criteria.

In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to fi nance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

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