HCPSS Has 64 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Only 16,000 students nationwide are eligible to compete for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million, and among those are dozens of Howard County Public School System students.

High school seniors who scored in the top percentile in the country on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) are qualified as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, accounting for fewer than one percent of high school seniors.

The local semifinalists are:

ATHOLTON H. S.
Elisabeth D. Ake
Ethan H. Fan
Benjamin X. Guo
Daniel S. Osheroff
Benjamin P. Recht
Annabel N. Smoot
Bill W. Tong
Rohan A. Uttamsingh
Jessica Y. Wu

CENTENNIAL H. S.
Keertik Bacon
Daria Cara
Udit Gupta
Richard Huang
Emily E. Kim
Angela L. Liu
Tobias C. Moser
Ameya M. Sriram
Zeyu Zhong

GLENELG COUNTRY SCHOOL
Natalie G. Good

HOWARD H. S.
Robert K. Appel
Zenab Ayaz
Harrison C. Kim
Jonathan J. Kim
Samiksha Varadarajan
Edmund B. Woods

LONG REACH H. S.
Samuel D. Levine
Abhinav R. Modugula

MARRIOTTS RIDGE H. S.
Julia E. Andrews
Rebecca J. Baker
Audrey C. Casper
Naomi Han
Eunice Y. Ju
Hong Z. Khor
Alex M. Kim
Joshua S. Lee
Michelle M. Li
Zhuoyuan Li
Nicholas A. Mills
Jiwoo Moon
Yuvraj Nayak
Erin Yu
Juliana Yu

MOUNT HEBRON H. S.
Aboli S. Dahiwadkar
William R. Li
Lorelei N. Loraine
Pooja J. Nambiar
David R. Wang

RESERVOIR H. S.
Isabelle A. Choi
Andrew Lai
Yashvi P. Shah

RIVER HILL H. S.
Zan Z. Chaudhry
Riordan A. Correll Brown
Jeffrey Y. Du
Matthew A. Hernandez
Sophia Huang
Katherine A. Kitzinger
Adam J. Luo
Nicholas S. Pavlosky
Andrew Qian
Vedaant D. Shah
Oliver E. Simpson
Amy X. Zhao