59 Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced 59 District 204 seniors were named Semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented students are among the approximately 16,000 students selected from across the nation who are competing for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships totaling more than $33 million.

Students qualified by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.

National Merit Semifinalists from Metea Valley High School are:

Kalpa Anjur, Kavya Anjur, Rohin Bhasin, Michael Chen, Dean Chou, Christopher Danner, James Drayton, Tyler Ducato, Samyuktha Iyer, Julia Jansen, Kieran Kaempen, Lori Kipp, Arpan Laha, Jungin Lee, Shreyas Mohan, Sung-Keun Park, Vishal Prakash, Sandhya Sivakumar, John Tjards and Allison Yu.

National Merit Semifinalists from Neuqua Valley High School are:

Utkarsh Awasthi, Aakash Basu, Vanessa Cai, Dustin Chen, Jessica Chen, Lydia Chung, Tejas Gajula, Grace Hong, Arnold Huang, Thomas Huang, Michael Ji, Janani Kalyan, Aishwarya Katiki, Amber Keahey, Anna Li, Avni Limdi, Rishab Nagori, Vishal Narasimhan, Lokesh Nasaka, Jessica Ni, Lilly Nie, Sejal Parmar, Alan Poe, Neema Prakash, Suhirtha Raj, Kevin Rosa, Alexander Shura, Shreya Sridhara, Jonathan Sun, Kruti Sutaria, Bernie Wang and William Wang.

National Merit Semifinalists from Waubonsie Valley High School are:

Hana Ahmed, Corey Barker, Edward Guan, Tiffany Kuta, Kelley Powell, Aashna Shah and Serena Zhu.