90 Charlotte Seniors Are National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

CHARLOTTE, NC — A total of 90 high school students who attend Charlotte high schools are among 16,000 semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship, which were announced on Wednesday.

The following students are in the running for more than 7,500 National Merit Scholarships that are worth more than $30 million and that will be offered to students next spring, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. To be considered for an award, semifinalists must meet several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.

ARDREY KELL H. S.

Mikaela R. Anthony,
Sathvik C. Avulapati,
Kunjal Bastola

Colin W. Byerly

Joshua Cai

Veronica Cifuentes
Navya H. Datla
Jacob H. Gyoerkoe
Mihir P. Kale
Neeraja Kulasingam
Anushka Kulkarni
Katherine R. Lang
Kevin Lin
Nicholas M. Longueira
Reid D. Ludwick
Prateek Mishra
Sanjana Mishra
Andrew J. Nees
Vamsi S. Palukuri
Ananya D. Ramesh
Aditi Sengupta
Soham K. Sharma
Kavya K. Shyam
Samantha C. Sileo

Sreya Vaddireddy
Sandeep Vasireddy
Roopasree Velraja
Emma C. Wallace

CHARLOTTE CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Rebecca R. Denton
Anna T. Greeley
Mark P. Kraay

CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

David O. Ntim

CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
Janae-Rose T. Fageyinbo

Samuel E. Farnha

Grace M. Gardner,

Kenan T. Hawley

Kenneth G. Jackson

Tyler S. Letarte
Raunak Mandal,
Charlotte D. Nofsinger
Abe H. Orlandi
Lucy G. Sasz,
Katherine A. Sluder,
Janani A. Sundaram

CHARLOTTE ENGINEERING EARLY COLLEGE
Eliza A. Haines

CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL

Walden M. Becker
Benjamin C. Bridges
Davis M. Cary
Joshua Fan
Rachel E. Hall
Laura S. Han
Cora E. Snyder
William W. Zhou

EAST MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL

Tigest G. Aboye

David A. Levy

Maxim K. Nemecek

THE FLETCHER SCHOOL

Ana S. Alonso

HOMESCHOOL

Moira A. Gleason

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Jonathan W. Smith

MYERS PARK HIGH SCHOOL

Anneliese Bowers

Molly M. Canipe

Anna B. Davis

John P. Duffy
Jane M. Thompson,
Samuel A. Waller

PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL

Phoebe J. Brennan
William R. Eustis
Rachel A. Hobby
Harold W. Jones
Reid W. Laughton
Audrey Martin
Claire E. Miller
Declan W. Peters
Sydney A. Stang

PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Aditi Bharathkumar,
Diya Bhatt
Olivia G. Bisson
Aditi Dumpala
Jackson R. Gerdes
Ethan M. Hill
Audrey E. Kim
Arvindh Manian
Anukul More
Vansh Nishchal
William E. Pan
Shreya Sankar
John A. Schubert
Sloane D. Stamp
Andrew R. Tuz
Lisa P. Zhang

SOUTH MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL

Kate A. Sappenfield

JOHN TAYLOR WILLIAMS MONTESSORI SCHOOL
Evan T.Fitzgerald

To become a finalist, the student and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the student's academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received, the corporation announced.

Students must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test.

Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations for students who meet their criteria, such as children of the grantor's employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located.

In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards.