The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
This includes the following Bellevue students: Chen, Katherine; Davis, Max A.; Kim, Andrew D.; Kim, Sarah M.; Liu, Athan; Liu, Vania A.; Liu, Y-Linh; Quigley, John C.; Ren, Caleb A.; Wu, Albert J, all from Bellevue High School; Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart students Campbell, Colleen M.; Chai, Christina; and Zhang, Rachel; homeschool student Craig, Jack M.; Interlake High School students Arora, Mayhul; Carutasu, Alexandru; Cassady, Shannon M.; Chen, Grant J.; Chen, Kathleen Z.; Chen, Nathan; Cheung, Benjamin H.; Choi, Andrew U.; Dai, Jessica; Fernando, Reshan S.; Gee, Julia R.; Gopalan, Vivek Y.; Gorobets, Evgeniya; Gulamali, Faris; Ha, Lilian D.; Hanafy, Ahmed; Harscoet, Ayana; Ip, Joshua; Kulkarni, Siddharth D.; Lee, Anna D.; Lee, Cayla S.; Lee, Jihyung; Li, Alice W.; Liang, Erich; Liu, Patrick Y.; Ma, Bridget; Ma, Crystal; Ma, Vivian; Madan, Jawahar V.; Marckx, Olivia C.; Mittal, Pranay; Mo, Wen Feng; Nave, Claire S.; Oytan, Alexandra Z.; Reynolds, Amelia M.; Sarkar, Korok; Shandar, Gayatri; Stein, Brennan M.; Sun, Jasmine; Sun, Yan; Sunku, Teja; Tan, Austin W.; Wang, Patrick; Wu, Benjamin; Xu, Jerry B.; Xue, Andrew; and Yang, Alan X; International School students Ding, Christina; Watson, Christopher C.; and Zhang, Karen; and Newport High School students Adler, Paul A.; He, Yingxue; Hu, Laura D.; Jacobsen, Anna; Kim, Min Young; Kinney, Ian N.; Lee, Teo; Park, Raymond; Peng, Howard; Shan, Vincent; Tang, Justin H.; Wang, Sarah J.; Wu, Jesse H.; and You, Allison M.
These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered next spring.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half
of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
For more information, visit www.nationalmerit.org.
