National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Named

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced 31 students from District 204 were named Semifinalists in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

Approximately 16,000 Semifinalists throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million that will be offered next spring.

Approximately 1.4 million students in 22,000 high schools entered this year's National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of all U.S. high school seniors.

National Merit Semifinalists from Metea Valley High School include: Karthikeya Achar, Antonio Busot, Olivia Dorencz, Ashwin Kannan, Avik Laha, Lebohang Molefe, and Kevin Slater.

National Merit Semifinalists from Neuqua Valley High School include: Anand Abraham, Armghan Ahmad, Venkat Atluri, Robert Barr, Nicholas Buckley, Katherine Chung, Jessica Ding, Michelle Ding, Tiffany Jeung, Jacqueline Keshner, Shannon Kollasch, Stephen Leung, Cheryl Liu, Rachel McMullan, Henry Michalski, Elizabeth Moye, Yaseen Saleh, Manu Sankar, Sameet Sapra and Avni Singh.

National Merit Semifinalists from Waubonsie Valley High School include: Krishna Appalaneni, Calvin Chu, Julianna Dantzer, and Alison Schenone.