More Than 120 Houston Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

Houston TX

15 September, 2021

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HOUSTON, TX — More than 120 high school students from Houston and many more from the Greater Houston metro have been named semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition. Semifinalists were chosen based on scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test taken during the 2020-21 school year. The top 16,000 scorers were named semifinalists. To become National Merit Scholarship finalists, the semifinalist and high school officials must submit a detailed scholarship application that includes information on their academic record, participation in school and community activities, information on how they demonstrate leadership, employment history and any honors they've received. A high school official must also recommend the student, while both of them write an essay about themselves while scoring high on their SAT or ACT. Of the 16,000 semifinalists, approximately 15,000 will become finalists and will be announced in February. Here are the students chosen as semifinalists from the Houston area. Live in Houston? Click here to subscribe to our free breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox and mobile devices. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and download our free mobile app on Android or iPhone. Cypress Cy-Fair High School Alejandro CantuLillian F. ChangCatherine J. SabottaCarson R. Stark Cypress Creek High School Yahya Sohail Cypress Falls High School Jenny Lu Cypress Ranch High School Miguel Kalen M. Alarcon Cypress Woods High School Tanvi S. KhandekarPhuc H. LeBenjamin J. Yonas Homeschool Leah SullivanMolly C. Sullivan Jersey Village High School Isaac B. Sal Langham Creek High School Parnika MandewalkarAshvin Ramabadran Friendswood Clear Brook High School Victoria K. NguyenEvelyn TranJoanne A. Tran Friendswood High School Chumeng CaiConnor W. GibsonBalint O. Kidd Galveston Odyssey Academy Elijah H. Jones Houston Awty International School Maxime DefossezEsther S. GaoGabriel A. GomezMatthew B. Mekha Anika SarnaConnor M. Smith Carnegie Vanguard High School Disha BhattacharyaPerrin CalzadaCaitlin M. DornSidharth DraksharamDavid M. GuanGowtham KadiyalaNikitha KotaTina LiJessica K. LinHari K. RajagopalSrikar SiripuramTegh S. ThindJennifer N. TonSamuel S. Zhang Clear Lake High School Alexander R. KingAlexander J. LeeLuana LiaoMark A. Luo Jack McBurnettEtienne A. ReineAllen Y. ShenTatiana N. VassilievRebecca WangTiana Z. WangRichard G. Xu Benjamin O. Davis High School Renny G. Hoang Michael E. De Bakey High School For Health Professions Pranav ChemudupatyCharlise GiangMegan E. MacLeayKevin Song Emery-Weiner School Ryan Zhao Heights High School Roma D. Kerby Homeschool Carter R. HidalgoGrace M. Styskal Houston Christian High School Jonathan D. ChenJohn D. McCollister Houston Quran Academy Musa B. Fareed Incarnate Word Academy Nicole M. CrossEmily C. Quin Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Matthew FuRonen S. WenderferSaranna Zhang Kinkaid School Catherine G. BeilsteinConnor BlakeVedul V. PalavajjhalaKee W. ShaperPatrick C. SolcherTrace S. St JulianRavi Yalamanchili Mirabeau B. Lamar High School Alexander M. Koong Craig A. Meikleham Lutheran South Academy Luke E. Anderson Memorial High School Sophie M. CzelustaVictoria GongAhmad F. HadidiStephen T. KangAvantika MateleDelaney B. PolocheckChloe W. PruettJoowon SeokLena A. SuggLane A. VanderVoortLauren T. WallDaniel Y. XuAlex S. Yoon Second Baptist School Grayson A. KimJeffrey J. KimNaomi Konuma Spring Branch Academic Institute Alex Zhang St. Agnes Academy Nicole M. AhlgrenKate K. LittonJuliana M. PrattKaeden R. ReeseKaris R. Williams St. John's School Maira AnsariMegan D. ChangElla X. ChenMaria S. ChengLuis Gabriel J. De La CruzPragya DevashishOlivia Q. DoanCurtis J. DonovanAlexander ElliottMichael M. GreerNyla R. HartiganCeline H. HuangNatalie L. KingRomit KundagramiRussell A. LiEugene G. McCartyBrad RaiznerHannah L. WoodhouseRichard Z. Zheng St. Thomas High School Thanh-Vinh McCollosterElijah W. Phillips Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Mason M. AbrellJackson A. BergerVail A. ChenChristopher J. DemoorAndrew W. HungGrigoriy Y. NikulinKile R. Stenoien Jonathan S. TaffetJarvis Y. Xie Stratford High School Cameron L. DonleyMegan E. GuyCaden S. Wang John R. Weatherly Trinity Classical School Helen S. Wagner Village School Arjun Bala-Mehta Esha GargNathaneal S. KumarConnor H. Nguyen Westchester Academy of International Studies Angela M. Alvarado Westside High School Ethan S. Nava MaldonadoKelly Shih Katy British International School Authencia Tioanda, Authencia Batyr Zhangabylov Cinco Ranch High School Charles ChenSarah H. ChungBrandon M. GuoJiyeon JeonConnor Oberg Sharon W. RongAaryan SagarEthan WangChristine A. Wu Daniel Y. Yoon Homeschool Leo LeiRosalyn R. Lu Abigail Thompson Katy High School Anh T. Nguyen,Arman J. Saxena Mayde Creek High School Jonathan Huang Seven Lakes High School Varvara BubenYi ChenDinesh Elanchezhian April K. FengMadison R. HillBrian T. HoCathy HouCrystal C. HuangNoelle E. LarsenJack LeeYu LimAlisa Y. LuSamitha V. NemirajaiahKyle C. NoblesShriya PendyalaSiddharth RavvaMary N. RumseySiddharth ShanbhagPaul C. SwingleStephanie WangElizabeth WuAlice J. XuSooyeon Yang Korina Zhang Rachel K. ZhangJoshua J. Zhou St. John XXIII College Preparatory Janice H. LinGray A. PodolakMary Margaret E. Speed James E. Taylor High School Ruixue R. BaiKatherine A. JonesJaein LeeJason E. LeeNayoung LeeRachael LeeMitchell L. Shadden Richard W. Shim Joseph J. ThangKaren P. Wang Obra D. Tompkins High School Neha ArvinthVisruth V. ChakkaTejas CheetiMichael S. ChungCindy X. DuEmily C. EdwardsRyan H. HaislerKshitij KapoorRahul KarthikAmber KaulAmrutha N. Kosanaum Max C. LiuArjun M. MadanaRobert B. OdomEashaan PrasannaJoey S. SeeJiya U. ShahAllen I. SunDavid T. VanderklayLuke VenkataramananSoumil Voma La Porte La Porte High School Anthony Zambrano League City Clear Falls High School Acadia L. Ferguson Clear Springs High School Rachel M. GossSidharth K. PavuluriGrace Zhou Needville Needville High School Asher D. Watson Pearland Glenda Dawson High School Neeraj Anantha Elaine L. ChangAndy H. GuCharles W. GundlachBidisha HalderBryan Y. LiJorryn Q. LiEdwin N. LingStephen T. MaoAruna S. MuthupillaiMichael R. PasalaHelen E. SandersonIsabella B. SoaresMelissa S. Tariq RodriguezEnjia WangRaina M. Zhang Shadow Creek High School Owen Cai Samah Haidar Garrett Sassin, Garrett Aditya UdaygiriAnanya Udaygiri Tomball Tomball Memorial High School Jianyi J. Xu