2023 national merit semifinalists list by state

Three local students were recently named National Merit semifinalists.

They are Selah Conklin of Glacier High School, Matthew Causey of Whitefish High School and home-school student Andrew Hawken of Kila and are among 16,000 students to reach semifinalist status around the U.S., according to a press release.

The high school seniors entered the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test as juniors. The PSAT/NMSQT serves as the initial screen of entrants.

About 95% of the semifinalists are expected to advance as finalists and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship. Winners will be announced during April through July.

To become a finalist, a semifinalist must submit a detailed application that provides information about the student’s academic record, school and community involvement, leadership abilities, employment and awards received. Additionally, students must have high SAT or ACT scores, write an essay and be recommended by a high school official.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced the names of about 16,000 semifinalists in the high school class of 2023.

The semifinalists, representing less than 1% of high school seniors, qualified through scores on the Preliminary SAT test. About 95% of them are expected to attain finalist standing, of which they’ll be notified in February, and about half the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

The list below covers the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, Napa and Santa Cruz. It is alphabetized by city and then by high school.

ALAMEDA

AlamedaForster, Zachary D.Kee, Allison H.

St. Joseph-Notre DameSchneider, Charlie D.

ALBANY

AlbanyChien, Maxwell L.Seo, Michelle Y.Wang, Hannah Z.

ATHERTON

Menlo-AthertonCallahan, Samuel L.Chang, Nicholas L.Chen, Justin Z.Deutscher-Bishop, Adrian M.Doran, Kathleen E.Follmer, Quinn L.Freeman, Ron A.Ha, Samuel A.Ingelsson, Carl H.Kratzer, Amelia M.Marquardt, Alizee C.Norman, Isabel E.Patrick, Anna C.Pflaging, Matthew A.Sujithan, Anjali D.Thornborrow, Willem S.

Menlo SchoolAllard, Lucas G.Barkley, HelenBerry, NikhilBorders, Emma N.Deffner, AidenFang, Michael L.Goler, Jack H.Kartheepan, Sudar B.Kepner, Katherine G.Krane, Ari A.Liu, Felix Y.Tung, Andrew P.

Sacred Heart PreparatoryBarnds, Laura G.Brockett, Helen G.Choi, AnnabellaFreeland, Martin B.Hamrah, Armin J.Knox, Lucy P.Ragatz, Elsie K.

BELMONT

CarlmontAugustine, Lindsay F.Chan, EvelynChaudhary, UdayChou, AllenChou, MaxwellCruz, AndrewElliston, Jonathan A.Fox, Hudson T.Gerber, Eric J.Htun, Ethan H.Jin, Hannah Y.Li, MeganMayenkar, MiriyaNam, Christine H.Peng, Tyler L.Ramamurthy, Rahul G.Save, Swaraali V.Shroff, AarshTummala, TaranWu, Grace M.Yang, Joshua C.Yao, Ian Z.Yu, KatherineZhai, Eric R.Zweiger, Adam M.

BENICIA

BeniciaBi, Yuna T.Flitcroft, Benjamin J.

BERKELEY

BerkeleyFeria, Jade K.Gerst, Theodore A.Horsley, Juliette M.McGlashan, Nicholas S.Nelson, Raina V.

BURLINGAME

BurlingameJankowski, Katherine K.Limb, Audrey H.Raghavan, MinnoliRosales-Hasek, Romer L.Spenner, Jackson E.

MercyKnapp, Sophia M.

CAMPBELL

WestmontAgrawal, ShirinaKandikattu, Eerav S.Kandikattu, Eeshan S.

HomeschoolChing, Charis

CASTRO VALLEY

Castro ValleyBeringer, Rebecca A.Kasl-Godley, Autumn L.Li, Kevin H.Nierengarten, Elias J.Rickert, Aidan M.

HomeschoolSlettnes, Espen

CONCORD

CarondeletCoyle, Elise G.Daniel, Marie K.Lehrer, Macy M.

Clayton Valley CharterJohal, Jessica

Ygnacio ValleyKhaund, Iris M.

CUPERTINO

CupertinoAcharya, AbhayChang, AndrewChen, Isabel Y.Chu, KatelynDu, EdwardGuo, KevinGupta, NavyaaHan, Eric D.Jung, Daniel M.Khosla, AnyaKim, SophiaKoo, Jimin S.Kueper, Frances L.Lu, WilsonMyoung, ElishaPanda, Lakshmi PoojithaPatil, Sanika U.Pisupati, Srikar S.Sethi, RiaShah, Vishrut S.Singhai, AnushaSoma, Pranav KumarSrikantan, Shiama V.Thummalapally, Saanvi R.Wang, KaihsinYan, Karen

HomesteadCao, AndriaChang, Eric S.Chen, Avery J.De Swiet, Theodore M.Feng, WanyanHinds, Clara T.Ji, SiyiKim, Christine J.Kulkarni, Arindam UnmeshKunz, ElizabethKurani, Hetal B.Leuenberger, Tatum J.Li, Timothy J.Martins, RoshniMin, Edward K.Park, Andrew D.Park, YunPhadke, SohumQin, Lindsay M.Rauenzahn, David J.Sabaa, Sarah A.Saha, RittikaSharma, DhruvSong, Benedict W.Srivatsan, Ishita H.Tumacder, Emily A.Venkatraman, AnirudhXu, AndriaYen, Justin Z.Yu, EmmaYuan, Jasmine E.Zhu, JessicaZhu, Rachel

Monta VistaArumugam, ChiranArun, Amrita S.Bansal, Aryan V.Baxter, Alexa G.Cui, Melody J.Datta, IshanDev, AnanyaDoddaballapur, Pramath V.Dua, AnanyaGoyal, AnyaHung, Ryan L.Jerolimov, Anna Y.Jiang, Allison Z.Kalari, AvaniKim, MinjeongKumaravelu, VarunLee, Calson G.Lee, JosephLei, LaviniaLiu, EricaManoj, Gauri S.Mar, Ryan M.Mridha, AmanjyotiOng, DylanPesati, Ishita R.Pradhan, Vedang H.Shanbhag, Abhinav S.Shui, KennethSreedhar, TrishaSrivatsan, SamhitaSun, Christopher T.Tung, Kelly H.Varanasi, AkankshaVenkataraman, DivyaVydyanathan, SoorajWang, Anthony L.Wang, HilaryWang, June M.Wu, Daniel K.Yang, Maggie Y.Youn, Ian B.Zhang, Angela W.Zhang, Angela Y.Zhang, Jessica W.

DANVILLE

AthenianCopeland, Nathaniel R.Cui, JackGera, Kaveer A.Greenfield, Tavi D.Oppenheimer, Lucas C.Shaw, CameronWhiteside, Alison M.

Monte VistaBrandeis, Sabrina E.Emmons, KaileyJain, IshaJohansson, LucasJoshi, VishaanOuyang, KevinShen, AricSinha, SamiraWatson, ParkerYe, Haoqing

San Ramon ValleyLupinek, AnnekaTeryoshin, Elizabeth Widmer, Ashlyn M.

HomeschoolPosselt, Timothy A.

DUBLIN

DublinAjay, SiddharthAntony, NeilBijlani, KaiiChaturvedi, SatvikiChen, SiyuCheng, HenryDadia, Ria R.Gollanapalli, Pranavi S.Jain, SamyakKarthik, ParnikaKataria, AnishKhandelwal, SuhaniKoh, Elizabeth W.Korupolu, ManuKrishnamoorthi, Mahika A.Krishnamoorthi, Rohan A.Leng, Sophia X.Rao, AnishaSrivastava, YashviThurgam, PranavVaidyanathan, SudikshaWu, Samuel H.Xiao, Frank Y.Zhou, Andrew X.

Quarry LaneJin, ChenxiKamena, Audrey A.Mitr, Romal A.Patel, Sachi D.Vaiyakarnam, Vaibhav S.Yu, Hannah H.

FOSTER CITY

HomeschoolChandragiri, Shreya

FREMONT

AmericanAgarwal, PreishaAshok, RiyaBhuwania, UrviChang, Phoebe W.Chen, Tiffany Y.Gaddam, Arnav R.Gaonkar, SaarthGarg, ShreeyaGaur, AgastyaGokhale, RevaGupta, AdityaHariharan, Ashwin M.Jodhavat, Chaitya H.Kar, AdrishKataria, Aditya S.Kedia, BhuviKorimilli, Manas G.Kumar, Aditya S.Lin, HungLiu, GregoryLu, James Y.Mallya, AdarshMathew, MerylParikh, KrishPutta, Pranav R.Raman, ThoyaRamoshan, RishathvikRavi, AbinayaSaki, Aarav L.Sreerama, AlekhyaSun, AveryThomas, Nevin J.Tu, ZhaorongUpadhyay, GarimaVenkitesh, Nandana V.Wang, CarolWang, WoyuYedur, Samvar M.Yelluru, Varun S.Yu, RaymondZhu, David Y.

Fremont ChristianFeng, Justin Y.

IrvingtonBalaji, VikramBhartia, PranjalBhat, AlishaDai, Ryan F.Dornala, SrideepFeng, Lisa C.Ganesan, ArjunGupta, DhruvHarpalani, AbhayHsu, IsabelleJiang, YueLaw, LouisLin, Sean S.Liu, MandyMa, Samuel K.Mistry, EshaanMorgaonkar, Aarya P.Nguyen, Vivian P.Patel, Ayush A.Patwardhan, Saaniya N.Quan, Angela Y.Renjith, GauriSathish, TanishShukla, SuhaniShyam Sundar, AmbareeshSong, Selina E.Sun, HanqingWang, Daniel X.Wang, Vincent X.Xiao, KaiwenYuan, HelenZang, JefferyZhu, Sophia

KennedyHussain, IsmailJain, DravyaJay, NathanKavasseri, Raja K.Kondapally, TaneeshLi, Calvin J.

Mission San JoseAgarwal, Arushi G.Arora, ArnavBathina, HarshitaBhagat, Rohan V.Bhashyakarla, PrathamBhat, KrishaBrown, Kyle M.Cheetancheri, Siddharthasai S.Chhabria, Tanya SDai, MaxDiao, JoshuaDuo, GarretFernando, ShelleyGe, ChrisGong, DanielGrover, Samrit S.Gu, Alton C.Guan, LingkeGune, Saloni P.Gupta, ChahakHe, AlexanderHo, StanleyHuang, Christy C.Iyer, Akash S.Jiang, LeoKao, Adrian M.Kashyap, AyushiKilam, YashKrishna, Pareekshith H.Kuchibhotla, SahanaLau, MeiLi, ChengqiLi, ShelleyLiang, Andrew J.Lin, YoudaLiu, RyanLoh, BrianLuo, AmyMa, RyanMarcelis, Julia A.Meyyappan, Prem M.Mishra, SmaranNainani, GovindNambiar, Nandana J.Nandanwar, Saanvi R.Polishchuk, Skyla L.Prakash, ArunimaQu, Benjamin Z.Rajkumar, PrajitRangaraaj, RahulRay, RheaSaini, KaavyaSatish, ArchanaSharma, AkulSheng, KevinShetty, Dev A.Shukla, UdaySingh, Nathan E.Sou, EttaSreeram, PranavSu, William B.Sun, AndrewTang, SelenaTatavarthi, SanjanaTeng, Eric S.Wang, Allison H.Wang, AudreyWang, Michael Z.Wang, ZhuoqinWu, JulieXiong, BryanYan, Brandon V.Yang, Marco J.Yuan, JerryZhang, AdrianZhang, Jasper B.Zhang, MaggieZhao, Max W.Zhou, MichaelZhou, PatrickZhou, Samuel

WashingtonBianco, NadiaDevadhar, ChinmayDoan, Khang Q.Gopisetty, AakarshHe, DianaJain, RheaJay, ShreeXie, Katherine G.

GILROY

GilroyTran, Samantha N.

Dr T.J. Owens Gilroy Early College AcademyHwang, Isaac S.Ramil, Ryan Vincent A.

HILLSBOROUGH

Crystal Springs UplandsBloom, Alexander P.Cao, LilianChen, Michelle H.Cherian, Paul J.Chiu, RussellClay, Furious M.Desai, Aryav C.Dye, Reid L.Griffin, Samuel P.Hou, Catherine S.Iyengar, Viraj P.Lacerte, Bennett S.Murawczyk, David J.Parthasarathy, Arjun V.Sahai, Nambita S.Soong, AlisonUpson, LinusVyas, Arnav K.

LAFAYETTE

AcalanesBonner, Riley K.

LARKSPUR

Redwood

Andre, Samuel A.

Haubold, John W.

Lipshitz, Sa’ar L.

LIVERMORE

GranadaDas, RumanDeka, TanishaFeigenbaum, YoavSakagami, Shunsuke K.Straus, Madeline J.

LivermoreZolynas, Ian P.

LOS ALTOS

Los AltosAnand, ShreyaBird von Eyben, Nicolas E.Brydon, Calum J.Chang, Alex L.Chang, DominicChang, Jack S.Chatwin, Alexandra K.Collart, Nicole L.Gillai, Danielle E.Joffe, NathanielKothari, ManasviniLee, MaxwellLiu, AustinSarkar, SreyanSchein, Ethan V.Su, Sarah J.Wang, Katherine Y.Yamane, MiyuYoung, MichaelYu, VictoriaYung, Maya J.Zhang, AnnaZhou, Roy C.

LOS ALTOS HILLS

PinewoodChen, VincentCui, Robert

LOS GATOSLos GatosChan, JordanFreeman, Leah E.Holl, Ethan W.Holl, Jeremy L.Hulyalkar, Avni S.Noymer, JacobRaza, FarisShen, StanleyZhou, Tony Y.

MENLO PARK

HomeschoolAuslander, Nathalie L.

MILLBRAE

MillsDing, Jeffrey H.

HomeschoolLin, Ryan Y.

MILL VALLEY

Tamalpais

Islam, Trevor D.

Paz-Priel, Yonatann

MILPITAS

MilpitasChen, NatalieLieu, Tiffany P.Vyas, RiyaWaqas, AfnaanWong, Brandon N.

HomeschoolOng, Phoebe Hui-Wen

MORAGA

CampolindoDong, John G.Kim, TaewooLu, Kaya A.Xie, Aaron Z.Xu, Evonne

MORGAN HILL

Ann SobratoTran, Aaron H.Tran, Nathan L.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

Khan Lab SchoolBhan, Jay M.

Mountain ViewBecker, AaronBellew, Maxwell G.Bondalapati, SaarangJhong, Kyle S.Meng, Hannah K.Mohageg, Eric R.Morimoto, TokiPatil, Jayant J.Peir, Billy M.Ravishankar, Sandra C.Seth, AdityaSumedh, VeenaWhitfield, Valerie M.Wokhlu, Ahana

St. FrancisArangio, LillianBadrinarayanan, SwathiBastin, AnikaBorodyansky, Vera N.Chang, Alexander S.Gupta, AdarshHussain, Safaa F.Iyer, AshwinKannan, Ashvin J.Krishnan, Ajay S.Li, Zhao W.Luo, Claire Y.Nguyen, Aaron T.Pandey, StutiSenthil, NikitaTomar, AdityaYing, Elsa S.Yuan, Abigail F.

HomeschoolGai-On, Ella R.

NAPA

Justin-SienaGeorge, Gabrielle M.

NapaTheunissen, Daniel L.

VintageShakeri, Armand M.

NEWARK Newark MemorialAhmadyar, Sophia

NOVATO

Novato Oclassen, Nicholas A.

San Marin Chi, Jesse N.

OAKLAND

College PreparatoryChang, Vivian Y.Fang, YinjiaPanesar, Tegbir S.Park, Christian S.Peng, AngelinaPirone, William A.Rossi, Alexandra K.Suh, Erin C.Wang, DerekWeinberger, Sebastian H.Wong, Claire M.Yu, Jiaqi

Head-RoyceAmin, ZaaraChua, Brady S.Coutu, JoshuaSingla, Jayanti D.Stein, Alecsander

Bishop O’DowdBarrow, Ajani KevinLong, Annabel JulietLong, Catie Rosalind

Oakland TechnicalFort, Theodora

HomeschoolKumar, TanishKurtulush, Lale G.

ORINDA

MiramonteAoki, AlexanderKim, Marina S.

PALO ALTO

CastillejaCherian, SoniaKim, AnnaMeng, Janet J.O’Hara, Josephine L.Row, Allison N.Yang, Kelly Alexandra

GunnAggarwal, AyushBednarz, Willa F.Belwal, SiddharthBoyce, Kepler M.Chang, Yu-TingChen, QingyangCheng, Ramona M.Goldhaber-Gordon, Shira T.Herrema, Matthew J.Huo, JianingHwang, EmilyJangbahad Ur, RaghavJeong, JinwooKim, JunoKrishnaswamy, Vikram A.Lee, Alan D.Lee, Jacqueline C.Li, AlinaLi, AndyLi, Phoebe J.Liang, EthanLiang, MichaelLiao, CarlyLiao, SallyListgarten, Emma J.Liu, GuangyiMa, LucyMao, Jonathan E.Mirchandani, AnjaniOh, IsaacPeng, Andrew W.Petridis, Alec G.Poon, Jack A.Pusegaonkar, Samarth S.Qiu, HannahRueff, Katherine E.Sather, Julia Y.Sivaraman, NimishaTian, HenryValame, VikramWang, Lucy L.Wong, Kaylee A.Yu, Amelia M.Yun, Paige H.Zhang, EthanZhang, Michael Q.Zhong, Stanley L.

Kehillah JewishBerman, Zachary S.Schireson, Olivia L.Zimmerman, Eli H.

Palo AltoArdeshna, ShalenBaldonado, NoahBlanco, MargotBliss-Carrascosa, NicolasBoneh, EthanBrierley-Green, Elena A.Chen, JonathanChen, VincentChien, EthanCierniak, AvrilCovert, PeterGu, CaydenGu, JustinGu, SophieGupta, VedantHe, SeanHo, BrennenHong, ArielHuang, KarrieJiang, ConnieKim, AlexisKrishna, ParthaKuhn, AtticusLiu, HidekiLu, YinglanMaa, WesleyMehta, AshaMukherjee, MayaQin, ClaireSinghania, VedantSong, WendyTan, LucasVaradarajan, GopalaWang, MingyuanWei, EugeneXia, JerryXu, EstherYang, MatthewZhao, Lucian C.

PIEDMONT

PiedmontZietlow, Jasper D.

PLEASANTON

Amador ValleyAn, JoshuaAnand, Rathul ShreyasBai, Richard J.Cao, ZiyueChen, Andrew W.Chen, Dennis R.Chudasama, AdityaDeshpande, Arya A.Frey, Annika L.Guo, Albert H.Hong, Henry Y.Huang, Eaton S.Jadhav, Nikita S.Jain, AryanJiang, Jason B.Ka, EmmaKang, Priscilla S.Karthik, AditiKwong, Dylan R.Lankipalle, AryadityaLee, Grace K.Lee, JiaLight, William I.Lo, IsabelleLong, SherryNair, Lakshmi P.Nalabotu, KeerthiPandey, SimranPrakash, MihirRim, AidenSivaraman, NehaWang, CraigWang, Marina B.Wang, Tony Z.Yang, YiYu, Emerson J.

FoothillDong, Isabel E.George, Zachary P.Guan, Lauryn K.Gupta, YashGurha, ArnavJoo, Caleb M.Kim, Annabelle S.Kim, MinaKrishna, AryaKuo, Ejean E.Lin, Marvin L.Mundhra, SiddhiNa, YoungseoPeng, WilliamPhan, Jasmine T.Saravanakumar, ArvindShah, IshaniShukla-Parekh, Anand R.Srinivasa Raghavan, SujanaaWan, KarenWu, RyanXu, ClaireYim, Jae ManZhang, Colin

HomeschoolChen, Alexa N.Lee, Justin D.

PORTOLA VALLEY

Woodside PrioryDel Buono, MilanKawaja, Alex W.Lopez, Andrew V.Lucas, Sofia A.Raman, DhruvShieh, Clarissa M.Sobomehin, Olatayo A.

REDWOOD CITY

Design TechLarson, Annika

SequoiaBae, Ethan S.Bae, Jackson T.Chang, Alexander E.

ROSS

Branson

Brenner, Ivy B.

Graves, William

Huang, Jeffrey S.

SAN FRANCISCO

Convent of the Sacred HeartFalconer, PeytonKramer, Makenna

Lick-WilmerdingBaik, Adrianne Y.Maltz, Amelia A.McLister, Kai D.Steele, Cara E.

LowellAndrade, WillaChen, JoshuaDonchenko, Victor M.Huang, GraceLee, Ryan H.Leung, Jonathan J.Rui, YuxiSorenson, Alexandria M.Takamoto, Alexander K.Wang, Katie A.Wang, Yifan

Lycee FrancaisDe Belloy, Madeleine R.

ProofBrower, Joshua E.Gish, Jackson F.Hua, KaileyJohnston, Anna M.Lindquist, Thomas N.Puckett, Carter J.Raghavan, Dhruv R.To, Michelle

Sacred Heart Cathedral PreparatoryAlves, Mateo A.Bourque, Baxter M.Simpson, Matthew S.Zhao, Alivia

St. Ignatius College PreparatoryMoe, Jackson J.Quach, Jack C.

San Francisco University SchoolMann, Victoria E.Vari, Katharine M.Woeber, Thomas A.

Stuart HallNie, ChristopherSchiller, Zachary

Urban SchoolKao, Caroline T.

SAN JOSE

Archbishop MittyBordia, SanayBrune, Ethan Z.Chaganti, SrujanChan, April H.Chen, Oliver Y.Fernandes, Amra L.Gajare, Neel L.Karthik, GuhanKaruppusami, AhilanKim, William D.Krishnan, AdarshKumar, Patrick A.Kwok, StewartLee, Sean M.Li, QingyuanNair, Siddharth R.Ng, AllisonNgai, RyanPampati, Riona S.Ponna, SritejQiao, YixuanSriram, Guha B.Sy, Jonathan A.Wang, Jonathan F.Wang, Welton T.

Basis Independent Silicon ValleyAhlawath, AayushiChen, AlexCheng, AryChi, AnnieGaba, MehaGanti, Dhanvi G.Gautam, SayuriJiang, AlysonKaganovich, Daniel S.Khanzode, Anaya VivekLiu, Derrick Z.Liu, Felix S.Lu, Joshua J.Madireddy, Indeever C.Mayya, Sarina N.Mehdiratta, Garv A.Naveen, Neha J.Paul, DhruvaQian, Geoffrey T.Reddy, Trisha N.Selvarajan, MehaShi, ManxiSrikanth, VishakSurapaneni, SidharthTang, SeanVasantha, AmithVasantha, RohitWu, AmberWu, ClaireYeh, SerenaZhang, Jiarong

Bellarmine College PreparatoryChen, Casey S.Dinesh, RishiDinkar, Siddharth A.Kim, Elliot T.Lin, RichardLy, Peter P.Mitiguy, JohnPaul E.Nallapa, Adarsh V.Raja, AbdulsalamRao, TanishRomo, RafaelShepelev, Kuzma P.Shiju, NirmalThai, Nathaniel J.Truong, Alexander T.Vemulapalli, Varun N.

BranhamBabu, AkilanCarr, Maxwell J.Goldberg, Andrew P.Lee, JunsangLee, WoochanMittha, ArjunRothman, John V.

Evergreen ValleyCao, Arianna LiangChang, Andrew T.Chiu, Kaitlyn J.Chou, AprilChoudhury, AnanyaEranky, Srikar SaiGuggilla, VishrutIvaturi, NishikaJain, RitaliJonnalagadda, Jyotiprakash PenchalaKaur, JapleenLi, Alex B.Mujoo, ShuhulShrinivasan, AdityaSrivastava, SaurishSrivatsa, Abhyuday P.Venkatesh, Dipti SatviYang, Kacey Chang

HarkerApsey, Ayla N.Bammi, AnanyaBanerjee, AtriBarrett, ArjunBhowmick, SaraBiswas, EmmaChang, Ryan A.Chang, TiffanyChen, BrianChen, Gordon Z.Chen, GuoranChen, Rupert E.Daniel, AthreyaDharmapurikar, Amruta M.Ding, GaryFranz, Nina H.Gergov, Natalie R.Gondipalli, Keesha R.Grebin, AlisaGupta, RiyaHan, DyllanHerrero, RahulHsieh, Jack E.Hu, Ashley S.Huang, Jacob Z.Jain, KunalJiang, AlanJin, Michelle Z.Ko, JeremyKondapalli, Rohan D.Kuehnish, JohnnyKumar, SaaviLai, SawyerLan, Alexander Y.Lee, William P.Li, JasmineMa, Eileen B.Mani, VikramMo, Johnathan Y.Moorjani, Isha J.Pandey, AnikaParikh, JiaPasupathy, AmritaPflaging, MichaelPluzhnikov, Andrew A.Praun-Petrovic, AdaRuan, AshleySanghari, Sunjum S.Selvakumar, SiddharthSims, Grant S.Sivakumar, Divya I.Subramanian, LavanyaSullivan, Michael R.Thakker, ArmaanViradiah, DeeyaWei, NicholasXia, StephenXu, Austina T.Xu, Kathy Z.Yang, Gwen-Zoe C.Yang, RylanZhang, Richard S.Zhang, Robert Y.Zhang, Vincent Y.Zhao, AnthonyZhu, Sabrina H.Zhu, Sally H.

LeighApte, Neve C.Kim, KyuwonKoski, Simon Y.Nam, RichardShaffer, Dylan R.Singhal, ArushiTan, JocelynWeng, LeoZhang, Alan

LelandBeratahani, FioraCarroll, MadeleineChang, EthanFlacau, Ilinca M.Garg, IshirJadav, JuhiKim, EunwooLim, HannahLiu, MaggieLiu, PhilMai, Anthony N.Moon, Karis T.Sharma, NiharikaSun, WilliamUpadhyaya, PavanaVenkataramanan, ShivaniVinay, SunnyXie, Daniel Y.Xu, Christina A.Yao, JessicaYe, Lawrence

LynbrookAnand, NavyaBalan, Dhruva V.Chang, EthanChang, KylieChatterjee, AnkitaChen, Claire Y.Chen, Ryan A.Chen, Vivian H.Cheng, Elizabeth J.Dhanda, VenusEnduri, SaivaishnaviGeorge, Sharon M.Goel, MehulGuo, Charlene H.Huang, Samantha Y.Jung, Antone H.Kataria, UtsavKe, EdwardKumar, ArjunLaw, Edwin R.Leong, Brandon B.Lin, DarrenMadadi, AnkithOh, EunseoPandrangi, Kavya M.Shah, Isha A.Shah, NiraliShan, JasonShen, Eric Y.Su, YaTan, JamieTaraniganty, AksharaTong, AlanTu, Elizabeth E.Virupaksha, PranavYan, Aaron T.Yang, KevinYuan, SelenaZhang, Chris J.Zhao, Vivian

Notre Dame Gopalan, Vismaya V.Lloyd, Madeleine G.Vargas-Hurlston, Isabel Z.Yang, Anna

Piedmont Hills Li, JessicaShen, Nicole

Pioneer Chen, Bo YingChiu, Lauren YingqinKumaran, Daya

Presentation Gupta, NatashaLu, MichelleMcGovern, Kathryn J.Raman, Nikita L.Tsukamoto, Hannah A.

Santa Teresa Ivanov, Mary

Silver Creek Cheng, Amanda IsabelleRai, Saanvi

University Preparatory Figge, Anna M.Kodamanchilli, James P.Lau, Elizabeth Y.Nakagawa, Bradley T.Tran, Alisa N.

Valley ChristianBai, David M.Bang, Allison H.Bellary, Roshan N.Chau, Kayla N.Chen, William J. J.Chu, Phoebe N.Dudyala, Shivani N.Guan, Emily L.Kasmalkar, Parth M.Lee, Calvin J.Li, Dylan X.Li, Vivian H.Maheshwari, Ananya A.Ngo, Mae T.Nguyen, Brandon T.Ning, Leah Y.Pham, Claire A.Tran, Cathy D.Tummala, Praneeth N.Venneman, Aidan J.Wong, Bryant K.Yang, Austin W.Zhang, Christopher N.Zhang, Xuan E.

Homeschool Panidapu, ApoorvaPant, SiddharthSonne, Margaret G.

SAN MATEO

Aragon Kayitha, Mounami ReddyParker, Angelina J.Qin, Sophia J.Sai, DavidWan, Sannie S.Wu, Evan H.Yang, Carissa Y.

Hillsdale Agarwal, Pooja S.Cheng, LeilLu, Fiona H.

Nueva School Assaderaghi, NicholasAsudani, Anahita S.Brown, MicahCham, ColinChiang, JonathanHsu, Owen P.Kondylis, Elianna G.Lehane, DominicLeong, SamanthaLit, Lucan G.Liu, HoujunLiu, StephanieLouie, Clementine T.Mahdavi, Nicholas Y.Marvit, SelinaMcCambridge, Nina K.Seetharam, AkshaySrihari, RiyanaSze, Riley R.Tavares, Mia P.Tholen, AlexWee, Abigale H.Wolf, William H.Wong, CheriseYalif, Isabella U.Yang, Xander Z.Zhang, Michelle J.

San Mateo Kim, Ellen J.MacAvoy, Alexis T.Rao, Maya G.Tuzar, Zackary G.Yang, David Zhai

SAN RAFAEL

Marin Academy Tavenner, Eric M.

San Rafael Diaz, Matteo

SAN RAMON

California Aggarwal, MihirAkella, PranavArya, Mihir S.Goyal, RidhiKasad, KianKottakota, SpandanPalacharla, HarshithaPrakash, RonitRajagopal, Sriram S.Shin, Ethan M.Xiong, AndrewYadav, Viraj

Dougherty Valley Bhatia, AyanBhattacharya, AravBokinala, ManavBoreddy, PranayChandrasekhar, EshwarChang, NicholasChen, CaitlinChen, KristenDavuluri, AvanishDey, AniketFeng, YanzheGelle, Sree Krishna ChandraGooty, NeelaGore, AdrianGowda, PreranaHampapur, ArnavHan, AnthonyHan, YifeiJain, AdityaKancharla, NavyaKoyi, SashvathKreider, IanLa, AdamLa, JulianLee, AlexanderLi, OliviaLiu, IsaacLiu, JamesonMenendez, DiegoMittal, MitaliMohiuddin, HamzaNadipally, NihalNakamoto, RyakenNarasimhan, RiyankaNayar, SandhyaPandiyan, AvantikaPeng, FionaPhongsa, OliviaPinto, DestinyPotnuru, LohitPragash, PrabhavReddy, ArjunRedkar, NeelSaravanan, SarveshanShetti, RheaStadermann, Sarah J.Syeda, ManahilTenneti, AnirudhVittaladevuni, AnanyaWang, DaphneXiong, XiaotongYadav, NaimahYang, GraceYarlagadda, VibhaZhang, BriannaZhao, GraceZhao, JesseZhao, Wong

SANTA CLARA

Santa Clara Cherukuri, NirathiHong, EinMcMahon, Sebastian K.

Wilcox Bose, AnikaDoctor, Kavan M.Mitra, Shreyan M.Woo, Paul J.

SANTA CRUZ

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory Chen, James Y.Huang, AverieStrong, Penelope E.Sylvester, Andrew D.

Pacific Collegiate Lee, Alexander Y.

SANTA ROSA

Cardinal Newman Simon, John P.

Sonoma Academy Shi, Kyra T.

SARATOGA

Prospect ayakumar, Tarini AmsavarshiniPabbichetty, SaanviRadovic, JovanVelmurugan, Pranesh S.

Saratoga Agarwal, StutiBalaji, PradyumBhan, SohumChawla, ArshiChen, Christopher M.Desai, Atrey S.Fung, LisaGarg, ArnavGoswami, IshaHong, Andrew Z.Kamannavar, SiddharthLee, AlexanderLee, DyneMathihalli, NidhiMehrotra, SurajMishra, NilayPhalke, Uma D.Sheen, AinsleyShu, Howard Y.Wang, Anthony Y.Wang, CarolynWang, VivianWong, Anthony J.Wu, Mindy C.Xu, Adam Z.Yu, MaysonZhang, LilyZhu, Nathan Y.

SUNNYVALE

Fremont Chow, Sarah K.Feng, Angelina B.Joshi, Pranav S.Koduri, Roshni L.Pai, Aarav S.Shih, Daniel I.Singh, IshaYu, Terry

King’s Academy Bae, SeoyoungFischer, Zachary C.Johnson, Sophia G.Norquist, Stephan E.Thong, Jonathan R.Thong, Joshua R.Wu, Zoe I.

Homeschool Wang, Peter L.

UNION CITY

James Logan Tivare, Roma S.

WALNUT CREEK

Berean Christian Lee, Matthew

Las Lomas Yaremenko, Bogdan

Homeschool Kim, Elane

WOODSIDE

Woodside Vaughan, Alexander J.

What PSAT score is National Merit 2023?

National Merit Semifinalist Cutoffs Class of 2023.

How do you know if you are a National Merit semifinalist?

When and how are students notified they are Semifinalists? Semifinalists are notified through their schools in early September. Semifinalists who are homeschooled are notified at their home addresses. See the National Merit® Scholarship Program page for additional information about the program.

How many people make National Merit Finalist?

The 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 Finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The release is made available here to provide information about these awards.

Where do national merit finalists go to college?

College enrollment.