High School Seniors Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists

Thirty-seven Issaquah School District high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 71^st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists on Wednesday, September 10.

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. More than 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. Approximately half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 6,930 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $26 million.

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest-scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Congratulations on this incredible achievement.

 

Issaquah High School

Bhardwaj, Abhineet R.
Crooks, Isabelle M.
Fan, Shuxiao
Gupta, Aditya
Heu-Weller, Eden T.
Jain, Divitt
Kraemer, Madelyn S.
Kuthanoor, Aditi B.
O'Meara, John S.
Popovich, Maksim
Pramod, Shivani
Qin, Lucille Q.
Shunko, Daniel
Smith-Sletten, Ciara L.
Stefani, Stella M.
Xing, Frances M.

Liberty High School

Kolwalkar, Shreyas H.
 

Skyline High School

Buonerba, Morgan S.
Grigoroscuta, Anca
Guruprasad, Lalith Shravan
Haris, Haifa
Jain, Anvesha
Kadasani, Nikita R.
Manke, Atharv
Moudgalya, Sneha H.
Negroiu, David S.
Rajtar, Alexandra R.
Rajtar, Jax D.
Ryan, Samuel G.
Sharma, Ishi
Sivakumar, Deepa
Sudhahar, Tishya
Sun, Sophia J.
Wang, Sophie Y.
Xie, Justin L.
Zhu, Alvina Y.
Zhu, Chloe E.