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These Local High School Students Are National Merit Semifinalists
Congrats to the local high school seniors who have been selected as semifinalists for the prestigious award.
BUFFALO GROVE, IL -- Several local students have been selected as semi-finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. Wednesday announced the local seniors who were selected as semi-finalists, as well as the 16,000 total semi-finalists selected across the U.S. Of those high school seniors, 7,500 will be picked to receive a total of $31 million in scholarships, which will be announced next spring and summer.
Local semifinalists include the following Buffalo Grove High School seniors:
- Emilia Maria A. Bondarenko
- Alfred S. Roberts
Local semifinalists include the following Adlai Stevenson High School seniors:
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- Anubhav Agarwal
- Elyse Baden
- Archit Bajaj
- Michele Cai
- Sanjna Chunduri
- Ishaan Deshmukh
- Andrew Ding
- Chase Duvall
- Adam Elkins
- Joshua Ezrol
- Saaniya Farhan
- Andrew Gan
- Anjana Ganapathy
- Samarth Goel
- Vaibhav Gupta
- Andrew Huang
- Claire Huang
- Jason Huang
- Varun Jagannath
- Nishant Jain
- Sanjana Jain
- Shreya Karpoor
- Jessica Keane
- Aarim Khan
- Madeline Kim
- Olivia Lamberti
- Stephanie Li
- Miranda Liu
- Emily J Luo
- Varun Malladi
- Rohit Mandava
- Rajarshi Mullick
- Aniket Nuthalapati
- Meghan Oh
- Poojan Palwai
- Mary Polupan
- Varun Putcha
- Amy Qian
- Rahul Ramkumar
- Joseph Rivkin
- Spencer Robieson
- Joao Victor S. Rodrigues
- Ananya Shah
- Miriam Silberman
- Thivya Sivarajah
- Jay Stegall
- Tony Tan
- Michael C. Treiber
- Christopher Varghese
- Shreya M. Viswanathan
- Alisa L. Wang
- Daniel Wang
- Melanie Wang
- Winston Wang
- Jennifer X. Xiong
- Austin D. Yang
- Katherine S. Zeng
- Angela C. Zhang
- Hannah Zhang
- Josephine Zhang
- Melanie Zhang
- Rachel Zhang
- Daniel S. Zhu
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. Over 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title, according to a news release.
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 410 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence, according to a news release.
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National Merit Scholarship winners of 2019 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join some 338,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
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