A total of 191 students from 19 Fairfax County public schools have been named National Merit Semifinalists, and will compete for $26 million in scholarship awards to be announced next spring.
The number of semifinalists countywide was down from 264 last year, owing to a large drop (from 165 to 81) among students attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology.
Among student from the GazetteLeader coverage area named among the nation’s 16,000 National Merit Semifinalists:
> Langley High School: Katie Chen, Ariaana Downing, Leon Huang, Emily Hur, Zelmay Jan, Danna Jia, Arnav Ketineni, Amy Key, Chinmayee Lanka, Jayden Lee, Ethan Liu, Bryce Myers, Lindsey Newberg, Brendan Oakes, Vishwa Rakasi, Anniyah Rizvi, Riley Seewer, John Wu, Raymond Zhang.
> James Madison High School: Ariel Chasin, Charlotte Feigin, Nathan Goss, Anika Krishnaiyer, Robert Martirosyan, Michael Papadakis, Neha Parameswaran, Joseph Stafford, Kyan Yang.
> George C. Marshall High School: Shrey Desai, Gabriela Konde, Pradhyumnan Rajasekar, Ethan Stregack, Yue Xin Wang.
> McLean High School: Anaya Batish, Aria Colaco, Andrew Egorin, Lisa Hu, Phoebe Jang, Axel Lundback, Rachel Noh, Blake Powell, Peyton Rydzewski, David Sheng, Jakob Siyoni, Thanh-Hoa Tran-Luu, Lauren Wood, Aileen Wu, Eric Xue, Claire Yan.
> Oakton High School: Christopher Campbell, Isaiah Garrett, Benjamin Habyarimana, Bumkyu Kang, Adrian Li, Jackson Mika, Seth Parcell, Lisa Sun, Joshua Wang, Luke Whitlock, Ken Zhou.
> Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Ryeen Afkhami Aghda, Ishan Ajwani, Nikhil Alladi, Arjun Babla, Akansha Bagga, Alex Bakalov, Sanchali Banerjee, Arnav Bhalla, Samarth Bhargav, William Black, Logan Bradley, Jude Caldwell, Rabia Chadha, Dhruv Chandna, Claire Chen, Julia Chen, Andrew Choi, Nathaniel Crescioli, Asha Das, Niels-Oliver DeChaine, Jacob Foster, Ashrita Gandhari, Avni Garg, Filip Georgievski, Claire Guo, Arnav Gupta, Deven Hagen, Jason Hao, Mandy Huang, Sophia Huang, Grace Im, Soham Jain, Chris Jia, Ashvin Kala, Hudson Keeler, Symthasree Koganti, Rohan Kotla, Siddarth Kumar, Rishabh Kumaran, Peter Laosiri, Abigail Lee, Justin Lee, Avery Li, Lucas Libelo, Sophia Lin, Aniketh Luchmapurkar, Jasmine Ma, Alexander Mather, Eloise Minnigh, Benjamin Moseley, Saanvi Nandikonda, Bryan Nguyen, Deen Noori, Abhinav Palikala, Phoebe Pan, Poorna Prakash, Samvrit Rao, Pratyush Saxena, Aaryan Shah, Shrey Sharma, Patrick Shi, John Shinkman, Aaryan Sumesh, Anish Suvarna, Simon Thomas, Nicholas Toskey, Ophelia Tulchinsky, Leonardo Valli, Avnith Vijayram, Anna Wisniewski, Anthony Xu, Gabriel Xu, Vivian Xue, Pallavi Yalamanchilli, Hui Peng John Yao, Drew Zauel, Leah Zhang, Ray Zhang, Victoria Zhang, Julia Zherdetski, Alan Zhu.
The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
