64 Troy High Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

TROY, MI — 64 high school students from Troy have been named semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition.

To become National Merit Scholarship finalists, the semifinalist and high school officials must submit a detailed scholarship application that includes information on their academic record, participation in school and community activities, information on how they demonstrate leadership, employment history and any honors they've received.

A high school official must also recommend the student, while both of them write an essay about themselves while scoring high on their SAT or ACT.

Of the 16,000 semifinalists, approximately 15,000 will become finalists and will be announced in February.

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The students are:

Athens High School

Balintfy, Cole M.
Dandavolu, Raaga
Dharphale, Atharva
Ganesh, Nikita
Jaisankar, Neha
Karatha, Sachin P.
Kolli, Havesh V.
Qamar, Yahya
Shankar, Navya
VanAmberg, Cole V.

Troy High School
Agnihotri, Prisha
Aldinger, Frederick D.
Arya, Akshat
Baek, Seo Hyun
Bethamcherla, Sarayu S.
Chang, Kevin
Chawla, Sanya
Chen, Emily
Choi, Reagan
Chowdhury, Shiham
Dahad, Abhishek P.
Goswami, Mariska G.
Gullapuram, Navya S.
Hua, Albert S.
Hung, Nicolas
Isaac, Jemi A.
Jalf, Udayvir S.
Jan, Victoria L.
Kim, Hyun
Konduru, Rishi
Liu, Aileen M.
Liu, Allison J.
Locula, Aditi
Ma, Iris
Mahmood, Mlahat
Manek, Meera A.
Nguyen, Brandon H.
Panchal, Tanisha H.
Patel, Esha R.
Prasad, Avani
Purushothaman, Vandhana
Qiao, Eric G.
Qu, Katie S.
Samuel, Danny W.
Shaik Mohammad, Sania
Shetty, Rishi V.
Shyn, Heejin
Soni, Kishan M.
Sovani, Saakshi S.
Sridhar, Sachin
Srinivas, Vidhya Harini
Suresh, Smriti S.
Swami, Dilan A.
Swaminathan, Sharanya
Tahir, Areej
Tansingco, Jordan D.
Varghese, Rebecca S.
Wang, Andrew
Wang, Roger
Wu, Claire L.
Xu, Angela J.
Xu, Gary
Yang, Rachel H.
Yao, Nancy