Johns Creek Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Johns Creek GA

01 October, 2020

11:32 AM

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JOHNS CREEK, GA — More than 50 high school students from Johns Creek 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: CHATTAHOOCHEE HIGH SCHOOL Abaci, Devrim A.Anand, Dhruv D.Anandan, SaahasCho, Yoon J.Edara, Suraj C.Gil, IsaacJoshi, Mihir H.Kantor, Lillian E.Lee, Daniel S.Lee, Joshua K.Leiderman, DanielLuo, JasonNanda, SahajPatwardhan, Akshay A.Ponomarev, Valerie S.Yuan, MaxZheng, Willa Y.Zhou, Jennifer L.JOHNS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL Bao, Jason D.Bora, AdityaChang, Eric L.Choi, SeoyeonDhoot, Mehul S.Gupta, PihuHaynes, Christian A.Hufnagel, Joss B.Jiang, Jinmeng G.Kim, Ethan J.Patel, Dhairya N.Rarer, John C.Suharno, Joseph M.Tsang, Austin J.Tzeng, JoshuaWang, Andrew H.MOUNT PISGAH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLGansereit, William B.NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL Chakraborty, RakaChandra, BoidikChen, Hilary J.Gokhale, AniruddhaGonella, Arnav S.Hu, Anna Y.Jeong, JaeheonKadiyala, SumanthKataria, SameerLee, Spencer R.Manekar, Pooja N.Mittal, SomyaMuppidi, SrikarOuyang, Julia A.Shi, WilliamSingareddy, SurajTao, AlanVaish, Ishita K.Wang, YimoZhang, Tyler 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.