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52 Aurora High Schoolers Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists
They are among the 16,000 semifinalists named nationwide vying for the chance to win nearly $28 million in scholarship money.
AURORA, IL — Three students at Aurora high schools were named semifinalists in the 69th National Merit Scholarship Program, officials announced Wednesday.
The seniors are among the 16,000 semifinalists named nationwide. Of those students, 7,140 will be chosen to share nearly $28 million in scholarship money, which will be announced in spring 2024.
Here's a look at the finalists, sorted by school.
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Aurora Central Catholic High School
- Jack Lucas
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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- Atyam, Sreevardhan
- Bikrant Bhattacharyya
- Ishan Buyyanapragada
- Sindhu Chalasani
- Anirudh Chari
- Marguerite DiMarco
- Srihari Gurugubelli
- Albert Han
- Madhav Hota
- Anisha Kolambe
- Justina Kostiv
- Marcus Kubon
- Zuyu Liu
- George Lu
- Aldo Magana
- Claire O'Brien-Dull
- Gavin O'Malley
- Maitreyi Pandey
- JaeJun Park
- Rohan Patuar
- Aashima Singh Sisodia
- Prain Swaina
- Rithik Thekiniath
- Vignesh Tiruvannamalai
- Stephen Walsh
- Annabelle Zhang
Marmion Academy
- James Jochum
- James Kennedy
- Dominic Pipitone
- Ian Roskuszka
- Nolan Sayasane
Metea Valley High School
- Sri Lakshmi Battula
- Randolph Ha
- Gurmeher Kaur
- Hafsah Khan
- Somya Mehta
- Harika Nareddy
- Charles Nordahl
- Kevin Paul
- Sanskruti Sangalge
- Ravi Shah
- Kaushik Vemulapalli
Waubonsie Valley High School
- Parnitha Bandla
- Keian Lam
- Jackie Li
- Ethan Ma
- Neha Nadgauda
- Eric Prakash
- Maya Sanny
- Arnav Shettyo
- Zachary Tukker
According to the news release, to be considered for a scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.
Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, including the highest-scoring entrants in each state, according to National Merit.
Winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join nearly 375,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
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