Forsyth County Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Cumming GA

01 October, 2020

11:47 AM

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FORSYTH COUNTY, GA — More than 50 high school students from Forsyth County have been named semifinalists for a 2021 National Merit Scholarship. The group are among about 16,000 high-school seniors nationwide who will go on to compete for National Merit scholarships worth more than $30 million to be offered next spring. They are: ALLIANCE ACADEMY FOR INNOVATIONFaraz, Akram M.Shankar, SanjannaDENMARK HIGH SCHOOLBoyeneni, SiddharthFlores, TrinidadGhanta, Siddharth V.Goel, VarunKumaran, Hari KrishnaLafferty, Isabella R.Mohan, DiyaNune, Veda S.Oleti, ManasiOswald, Emma J.Ramesh, AdvikaThakur, AryanFIDELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Murphy, Robert C.FORSYTH ACADEMYEvans, Beatrice V.FORSYTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Lofgren, Riley J.Panda, AyushShanmugam, Ashriitha G.Tozier, Shannon K.HOMESCHOOL Jayakumar, Nithya K.LAMBERT HIGH SCHOOL Feng, Skyler S.Hong, Ruth E.Howard, Kayla M.Kim, JustinKim, Noah M.Kishore, KrishiLee, Jacob M.Liu, JonathanMettupalli, SindhuraPalled, Apoorva P.Pateel, VarunPatel, Soumya N.Ramos Grangeia Carva, Nuno M Ramos GrangeiaRath, SudiptaRyu, JustinSoo, PatrickSun, Kevin H.Wu, Michelle C.Zhang, JohnZhao, Nina L.Zhou, ElinNORTH FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL Malone, Owen P.SOUTH FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL Atluru, Avinash S.Bryant, Wesley T.Durbin, Riley A.Gebhardt, James C.Hempker, Benjamin J.Joshi, Anjali K.Manchanda, RiyaMcLean, Katelyn R.Munagapati, Pranavvarma V.Pentela, DhritiSurapaneni, Akshitha D.Vavilikolanu, AadarshYin, Kristine S. More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists, and more than half of those will win National Merit scholarships. High-school juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in 2019.