123 seniors in the Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District and Palo Alto Unified School District have advanced to the semifinalist stage of the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
These seniors, along with roughly 16,000 other semifinalists, represent the top scoring 1% of students who took the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last year.
95% of the semifinalists are expected to advance to the final stage, which requires an application detailing academic records, community participation, leadership abilities, employment, awards, a letter of recommendation and SAT or ACT scores that confirm earlier performance on the PSAT/NMSQT.
Finalists will compete for $2,500 scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and merit scholarship awards provided by other organizations and academic institutions. Scholarships will be announced in spring 2023.
The MVLA semifinalists are:
Mountain View High School
- Aaron Becker
- Maxwell G. Bellew
- Saarang Bondalapati
- Kyle S. Jhong
- Hannah K. Meng
- Eric R. Mohageg
- Toki Morimoto
- Jayant J. Patil
- Billy M. Peir
- Sandra C. Ravishankar
- Aditya Seth
- Veena Sumedh
- Valerie M. Whitfield
- Ahana Wokhlu
Los Altos High School
- Shreya Anand
- Nicolas E. Bird von Eyben
- Calum J. Brydon
- Alex L. Chang
- Dominic Chang
- Jack S. Chang
- Alexandra K. Chatwin
- Nicole L. Collart
- Danielle E. Gillai
- Nathaniel Joffe
- Manasvini Kothari
- Maxwell Lee
- Austin Liu
- Sreyan Sarkar
- Ethan V. Schein
- Sarah J. Su
- Katherine Y. Wang
- Miyu Yamane
- Michael Young
- Victoria Yu
- Maya J. Yung
- Anna Zhang
- Roy C. Zhou
The PAUSD semifinalists are:
Henry M. Gunn High School
- Ayush Aggarwal
- Willa F. Bednarz
- Siddharth Belwal
- Kepler M. Boyce
- Yu-Ting Chang
- Qingyang Chen
- Ramona M. Cheng
- Shira T. Goldhaber-Gordon
- Matthew J. Herrema
- Jianing Huo
- Emily Hwang
- Raghav Jangbahad Ur
- Jinwoo Jeong
- Juno Kim
- Vikram A. Krishnaswamy
- Alan D. Lee
- Jacqueline C. Lee
- Alina Li
- Andy Li
- Phoebe J. Li
- Ethan Liang
- Michael Liang
- Carly Liao
- Sally Liao
- Emma J. Listgarten
- Guangyi Liu
- Lucy Ma
- Jonathan E. Mao
- Anjani Mirchandani
- Isaac Oh
- Andrew W. Peng
- Alec G. Petridis
- Jack A. Poon
- Samarth S. Pusegaonkar
- Hannah Qiu
- Katherine E. Rueff
- Julia Y. Sather
- Nimisha Sivaraman
- Henry Tian
- Vikram Valame
- Lucy L. Wang
- Kaylee A. Wong
- Amelia M. Yu
- Paige H. Yun
- Ethan Zhang
- Michael Q. Zhang
- Stanley L. Zhong
Palo Alto High School
- Shalen Ardeshna
- Noah Baldonado
- Margot Blanco
- Nicolas Bliss-Carrascosa
- Ethan Boneh
- Elena A. Brierley-Green
- Jonathan Chen
- Vincent Chen
- Ethan Chien
- Avril Cierniak
- Peter Covert
- Cayden Gu
- Justin Gu
- Sophie Gu
- Vedant Gupta
- Sean He
- Brennen Ho
- Ariel Hong
- Karrie Huang
- Connie Jiang
- Alexis Kim
- Partha Krishna
- Atticus Kuhn
- Hideki Liu
- Yinglan Lu
- Wesley Maa
- Asha Mehta
- Maya Mukherjee
- Claire Qin
- Vedant Singhania
- Wendy Song
- Lucas Tan
- Gopala Varadarajan
- Mingyuan Wang
- Eugene Wei
- Jerry Xia
- Esther Xu
- Matthew Yang
- Lucian C. Zhao
