36 Stevenson Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

LINCOLNSHIRE, IL - Thirty-six Adlai E. Stevenson High School students were named National Merit semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation on Wednesday.

Nationally, the organization announced approximately 16,000 semifinalists on Wednesday, all of which will have an opportunity to become finalists and then compete for about 7,500 National Merit scholarships worth about $33 million next spring.

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The ones selected here represent less than 1 percent of high school students nationally.

Students selected from Stevenson High School were:

Rahul Arun
Matthew S. Cabrera
Julie Chung
Isabel H. Edreva
Alice S. Fang
Danielle B. Fang
Serena J. Goldberg
Aman Grover
Aryn C. Harmon
Amber R. Hu
Joshua P. Hu
Christie S. Kang
Mia B. Kim
Hyungseok Lee
Young F. Lee
Kendra Y. Lin
Alice Liu
David Liu
Katherine W. Liu
Jason D. Lu
Isaac B. Lucas
Emma McMahon
Anna R. Niesman
Eric D. Qian
David Raskin
Ali Saeed
Brett M. Sokol
Michelle R. Sun
Manikandan Swaminathan
Krishna C. Vepachedu
Kathy P. Xiang
Hannah L. Yan
Kevin You
Alice Zhang
Sabrina F. Zhang
Zimo Zhu

Richard W. Reynolds, a homeschooled student from Lincolnshire, was also named a National Merit scholarship semifinalist.

In order for the semi-finalists to become National Merit finalists, they must submit a detailed application with information on school achievements, grades, involvement with school clubs and activities and test scores.

About 15,000 of the 16,000 are expected to become finalists. The ones selected will be notified in February.

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