Sixty-seven LWSD students named National Merit Semifinalists
Redmond, Wash. - Sixty-seven Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists on Wednesday, September 11.
Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. More than 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. A little less than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 6,870 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $26 million.
Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2023 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.
Lake Washington School District National Merit Semifinalists*:
Eastlake High School
- Sambriddhi Adhikari
- Vaishnavi Annamraju
- Arin Barde
- Colin Cajigas
- Tiana Chi
- Christopher Dickman
- Daniel Gorbatov
- Elliot Kaiser
- Yixin Li
- Marvin Lin
- Shriya Narayan
- Manya Pradeep Narayan
- Ananya Prakash
- Alon Ragoler
- Gonzalo Saggese
- Dhaya Sarathy
- Sneha Sharma
- Maanav Sikaria
- Hongning Wang
- Chujia Yang
International Community School
- Angelina Yu
- Jasmine Zhen
Juanita High School
- Sri Sai Meenakshi Arasada
- Zara Dobrev
- Cate Harrington
- Thomas Longcore
- Wenjuan Zou
Lake Washington High School
- Rachel Kelley
- Ashwika Mattam
- Zachary McKay
- Robert Michailov
- Sakshi Verma
Redmond High School
- Ananya Bezbaruah
- Varnika Bhargava
- Abigail Goheen
- Joyce Huang
- Krishna Iyer
- Mimi Leung
- Yuwan Luo
- Noel Prince Muthuplakal
- Arya Nagvekar
- Aparajitha Sethuraman
- Maxwell Shi
- Ramya Suresh
- Tian Ci Nathaniel Tok
Nikola Tesla STEM High School
- Achintya Agrawal
- Rajiv Arvind
- Bhanu V. Atmakuri
- Saharsh Bhargava
- Ryan Chung
- Keshav G. Iyer
- Elizabeth K. James
- Pranav Kannepalli
- Aishika Koppolu
- Keying Li
- Sarthak Lodha
- Reese Long
- Nicole N. Mihaylova
- Megha Ramachandran
- Sacchin Saravanan
- Rohit Sundaram
- Kaavya Trivedi
- Anisha Vaish
- Edison A. Wheeler
- Shuhui Yang
- Marilyn R. Zhao