Sandy Springs Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- The Fulton County School System on Thursday released the names of the 120 students named semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

These scholastically-talented high school seniors now continue in the national competition for more than 7,500 Merit Scholarship awards, a value of approximately $33 million.

Announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, this is the first round of competition for students seeking the distinction of being named a National Merit Scholar and receiving the scholarship money associated with it. Scholarship winners will be announced in the spring.

The students were identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. As semifinalists, the students now must fulfill several requirements in order to advance to the finalist round. They must have a record of high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school leadership, and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.

A detailed scholarship application, which includes the student’s self-descriptive essay and information about his or her participation and leadership in school and community activities, also must be submitted.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation conducts the annual National Merit Scholarship and National Achievement Scholarship programs. Scholarships awarded through the programs are underwritten by business organizations and higher education institutions, as well as by the organization’s own funds.
Fulton County students named semifinalists are:

Alpharetta High School: Veronica R. Bian, Megha Desai, Luke T. Heyerdahl, Brian Hu, Izaan Kamal, Rohan Kansara, Katelyn Lawrence, Philip Paul N. Mantchev, Anav Mittal, Nitish Sood, Anthony Zhang and Jeffrey Zhang.

Cambridge High School: Cameron L. Chong, Savannah C. Farr, Madison A. Landis and Jason X. Yang.

Centennial High School: Karl A. Jacobi, Kyle Qian, Justin Simard and Caroline Wittschen.

Chattahoochee High School: John E. Arndt, Amanda Y. Bao, Sarah Chen, Aditi Choudhury, Christopher J. Chung, Rachel Fitzgerald, Ananya Ghose, Matthew Green, Saitej Guttikonda, Pallavi K. Kenkare, Dong M. Kim, Abhinav Kumar, Sofie K. Lehtikoski, Rahil Manji, Kalen Patton, Ryan Peng, Joaquin Ramas, Ashwin Ramaswami, Michael Sawchuk, Harry D. Traub, Eric Wang, Sophia Yan and Tigerwin Yang.

Johns Creek High School: Noor Abi Rached, Madeleine E. Blair, Brennen M. Blotner, Daniel A. Bodea, Cassie Chen, Adam D. Davault, Yasheen Gao, Shalin G. Kapil, Woohyun Kim, Andrew W. Liang, Achyutha Abhishek Mallemadugula, Amy W. Mu, Katherine Shin, Christopher R. Sullivan, Abhinav L. Tirath, Anshul Tusnial, Akhil R. Vaidya, Jamie Wang, Vivian L. Wang, Michelle Yang and Koosha Zendehrouh Kermani.

Milton High School: Roopsha Bandopadhyay, Grace Cassidy, Aditi Dhume, Maya Eashwaran, Niva Matcha, Ankita P. Mohapatra, Amulya Noone, Gina Piazza, Kate L. Reynolds and Andrew D. Sauer.

North Springs Charter High School: Nathaniel L. Buffington, Kevin A. Hopper and Daniel A. Kane.

Northview High School: Ruth Austin, Pragya Banerjee, Ashna Bhardwaj, Charles Cheng, Jasmin Gao, Felicia Guo, Amy L. Jiang, Minji Kim, Judy Li, Michelle Liu, Calista Mei, Prahathishree Mohanavelu, Evan Moy, Thomas Moy, Soumil Nariani, Sally L. Pan, Keshav S. Pandiri, Sidharth S. Potdar, Nithin Raghavan, Tarun Ramesh, Omkara P. Rao, Yashi Sanghvi, Leonardo Tang, Kavya Vrid, Catherine Yang, Starr T. Yang, Amanda W. Zhang, Bill W. Zhang, Joseph Zhang, Irene Zhou, Patrick Zhou and Raymond Zhu.

Riverwood International Charter School: Jeremy E. Colton and Kendall Laws.

Roswell High School: Mary B. Bangs, Ethan C. Cain, Justin M. Cozzone, Kyle M. Cozzone, James K. Lewis, Cynthia D. Roby, Lily N. Rubin and Davis Tardif.

Westlake High School: Elysia M. Tillman

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