A total of 264 Fairfax County Public Schools students have been named National Merit Semifinalists, putting them in the running for more than 7,000 scholarships worth $28 million to be bestowed next spring.
They are among 16,000 semifinalists named from among 1.3 million students taking the qualifying exam in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Semifinalists from schools in the GazetteLeader coverage area include:
> From Langley High School: Scarlett Adams, Sai Charan Chaduruvelly, Anna Chen, Katherine Davis, Khalid Foraida, Jacqueline Gu, Aditya Gupta, Ashley Headrick, Lucas Kinkead, Collin Le, Milan Nguyen, Soren Sinani, Jolie Wu.
> From James Madison High School: Shivashish Das, Sophia Hsu, Calvin Kaplan, Austin Pemble, Kieran Roundy, Bennett Williams, Janine Zeng.
> From George C. Marshall High School: Yash Bapat, Hannah Poller, Keegan Rhyu, Eric Sanderson, Amelia Thomason, Sophia Welch.
> From McLean High School: Nathan Bass, Timothy Cedrone, Kian Choi, Lee Davis, Andrew Evans, Levana Gu, Nicoleta Hoffman, Kyra Macomber, Clara Marks, Maya Pashai, Alexandre Stephant, Camille Stephant, Astoria Stimmler, Angela Yang, Aileen Zhao.
> From Oakton High School: Aditi Bhattacharjya, Patrick Breslin, Saipriya Buddhavarapu, Nicole Deng, Tyler Francis, Sreeja Gudiseva, Chloe Lee, Esha Lohiya, Hannah Longfellow, Daniel Son, Kenneth Yon, Amber Zhang, Elizabeth Zhukova, Kelly Zou.
> From Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Mohib Ahmed, Cameron Ake, Harika Akundi, Neha Asuri, Vishana Baskaran, Ryan Berestecki, Brij Bhagat, Arjun Bhat, Dora Bowen-Glazeroff, Jacob Bowen-Glazeroff, Melissa Brown, Preston Brown, Paige Burke, Isabella Cai, Myles Carley, Kinnari Chaubal, Erin Chen, Jenny Chen, Jessica Chen, Thomas Chen, Dylan Cheng, Aiden Cheong, Danielle Cheong, Shashank Cheruvu, Rishabh Chhabra, Winston Chin, Thanisha Chowdhury, Elaine Chu, Maribelle Chu, Daniel John Chua, Benjamin Cohen, Santiago Criado, Emi Curtis, Tejesh Dandu, Anusha Das, Alexandra Davison, Shubhrangshu Deb Sarkar, Tristan Devictor, Khoi Dinh, Kiran Donnelly, Mihika Dusad, Pranav Elavarthi, Pishoy Elias, Carter Ellis, Alan Fan, Sarah Fu, Ketevan Gallagher, Medha Ghattu, Yajushi Gokhale, Shira Gottesman, Ananya Gottumukkala, Anika Gulati, Laura Guo, Dylan Han, Beck Hastings, Michael Hatami, Evan Huang, Liya Huang, Jiwoo Hwang, Lindsay Hwang, Paul Hwang, Anushka Jain, Riva Jain, Shinyoung Jeon, Katherine Jimenez, Tessa Joseph, Rohan Kalahasty, Dhruv Kalsi, Michelle Kang, Darren Kao, Sahil Kapadia, Ronit Kapur, Cullan Kelley, Anant Khandelwal, Jaiden Khemani, Ella Kim, Ryan Kim, Siddhita Krishnan, Munir Kudrati-Plummer, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Megana Kumar, Phong Lam, Brandon Le, Ian Lee, David Li, Samuel Li, Taohan Lin, Grace Liu, Johnny Liu, Ryan Liu, Kaitlyn Lu, Rohit Malavathu, Vayun Malik, Hardeep Mann, Rohan Manroa, Brian McInnis, Saisreekar Mendu, Leo Meyer, Cierra Min, Grace Molla, Lakshmi Sritan Motati, Nikhil Nair, Vishal Nandakumar, Alexander Nassif, Anthony Neves, Ky Nam Nguyen, Grace Oh, Alexander O’Quinn, Eesha Pamnani, Pranav Panicker, Claire Peng, Venkat Penmetsa, Amith Polineni, Rishabh Prabhu, Shikha Raghuram, Arvind Ragunathan, Dhruv Rana, Hamsini Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranjith, Neha Reddy, Satvik Reddy, Sathvik Redrouthu, Benjamin Reznikov, Danielle Riekse, Alec Riso, Benjamin Rubin, Arman Saeedinia, Ankita Saxena, Leonard Schrag, Serenna Semonsen, Keya Shah, Krishan Shankar, Ishara Shanmugasundaram, Vidhi Sharma, Osman Sheikh, Ayaan Siddiqui, Samhitha Singiresu, Ajit Sivakumar, Neanth Suresh, Srishanth Tangedipalli, Austin Thomas, Karthik Thyagarajan, Yao Tong, Alexandra Toporowicz, Sebastia Toro, Pranav Vadde, Mayuka Valluri, Kushaan Vardhan, Ram Vempati, Kai Wang, Kathleen Wang, Max Wang, Lucy Watts, Zani Xu, Lawrence Yang, Ryan Yi, Chris Yoo, Michael Zen, Emi Zhang, Helen Zhang, Katherine Zhang, Laura Zhang, Yushu Zhang, Anthony Zhao.
Three types of Merit Scholarship awards are offered: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.
