161 Fremont Students Semifinalists For Scholarships

Fremont CA

15 September, 2021

11:30 AM

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FREMONT, CA — The 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists were announced on Wednesday, including 161 students from Fremont. Most attend Fremont Unified School District high schools. The local students and their high schools are: Alsion Montessori High School Zhou, Alexander American High School Agarwal, SaanviAllam, NishanthBalaji, Mihika A.Bhatia, RiyaChaurasia, AditiDharmapuri, TrishaGarg, AnanyaGautam, DhruvGhosh, SubhonGona, AkshayGoswami, ArjoGovindu, Megha Gupta, AyushHe, CodyIyer, Vishwa A.Jain, TiyaKarra, RohanKarthikeyan, HarshiniKim, Seo Yeon y.Kumar, MaithiliLi, Aaron L.Lui, CharmaineManga, Aishwarya P.Murugupandiyan, Abinayaa Patel, NeerajaPrabahar, ThivyaPrabhakaran, Jagannath Rajasekar, HarithaRamaswamy, Divya G.Ravi, RahulShah, Amani R.Shah, Rhea J.Singh, AnushkaStreater, Nathan D.Thirumalai, NikhilUrgaonkar, AaravVarada, Keerti P.Vijayakartik, VarshaWang, Frank N.Wu, Maxine000 Wu, SelinaYing, Jimmy L.Zhi, Larry L.Zhou, RunxinZia, Nyla Circle of Independent Learning Charter School Zhang, Eunice Fremont Christian High School Feng, Owen Irvington High School Abraham, Neha A.Bansal, DhruvChen, KennyCheng, JonathanDeshpande, Tanvi M.Fong, Stephanie H.Gulati, Rohan000 Hu, EthanJavvaji, SiddharthaKan, Joseph K.Khan, ZayaanLim, JieunLiu, MeixuanLu, WanningMcKune, SaraMehta, TrishlaMurthy, SumukhNarendra, Rithwik I.Phatak, Jay R.Radharaj, DeekshaRaghuwanshi, Rajveersing R. Rao, LeoSamanta, SionaSeth, RithwikShah, AaryanShih, EvanSubramanian, RamyaVu, Samuel M.Wong, Madison J.Wong, NichelleYan, EdwardYo, ClementZhao, Colin B.Zhong, Elaine Y. John F. Kennedy High School Conner, Jack W. Mission San Jose High School Adiraju, SahithiAlladi, SahitiArora, Shubh -Baidyaroy, Ajeyo A. Chandra, Ameya Chen, Albert Z.Chen, Allen H.Cheng, YuyuanCheung, Jacqueline A. Choudhary, Rohit K.Chuang, Cheryl J.Dalmia, TusharDonepudi, SriyaDuvvuri, Nihar L.Gurnani, Harsh M.Han, VivianHe, DaphneHe, Isabella K.Hsieh, Gloria E.Jagathesan, AdvaithJhawar, DishitaKainth, KrrishKo, Naomi T.Kommineni, Kapil S.Kommu, Veena S.Krishnan, AthulKuang, AnnaKuang, Sara H.Kulkarni, Mythri V.Kulkarni, Shreya S.Kundu, SaborniLee, Ashton Y.Lin, Chloe L.Lu, Katie C.Lu, KevinLuo, StanleyMa, Nick Y.Madabhushi, Saaketh R. Malhotra, JaydenMisra, AlexzendorMorumganti, AditiMurthy, Chinmay P.Muthukrishnan, Kaushik Najeeb, SahilNandyala, ShreyaPalaka, Ragalina Y.Pang, AmandaPanguluri, Anvay S.Panguluri, Tanmay S. Parhy, MedhashreePau, MeganRai, AnshRangarajan, Vignesh H. Rao, Arnav K.Rao, YamunaSethuraman, Dhanya Shah, DiyaSriram, SathvikSun, LucasSuresh, TarunTang, AlexWang, Andrew S.Wang, Mingxin H.Wong, JackieWu, JeslynXue, YawenYan, Kelly J.Yu, JessicaYu, Kailyn J.Zhan, JuliaZhang, Zachary Z. Washington High School Bhatia, JiyaChandler, MatthewChandrasekhar, Sameera Iyengar, AdityaKaur, Japleen Makkar, Rohan Nair, Mehul Peng, JackSivaprabhu, Rishitha These students are among some 16,000 national semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. They will compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million. The scholarships will be awarded next spring and summer. The semifinalists where chosen after they took the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. The number of semifinalists in each state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. Next, semifinalists and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, incuding academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. The semifinalists must also write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test. Finalists will be announced in February. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group. There are three types of 2022 National Merit Scholarships: 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations. 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.