Ninety-nine scholars from Cupertino schools are among the 16,000 semifinalists named by the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Semifinalists of the scholarship program represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors.
The National Merit Scholarship program honors students who have shown academic prowess based on their scores in last fall’s Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. About 1.6 million high school juniors took the test.
While becoming a semifinalist is an achievement on its own, not all will move on to receive scholarships. Finalists will be notified in February, and of those finalists about half will win a scholarship of either a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship or a merit scholarship sponsored by a college or corporation.
See below for a list of the finalists from Cupertino. For a full list of semifinalists, visit Scribd.com.
Cupertino National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
CUPERTINO H. S.
Ayalur, Abhinav V.
Balakrishnan, Anoop
Elumalai, Nila N.
Gee, Caroline
Gopu, Ria S.
Gurtu, Nandit
Li, Jasmine
Liang, Andrew S.
Liang, Benjamin S.
Liao, Yi Jou
Nadkarni, Pooja
Narveuar, Anushka S.
Otsu, Seiji
Ranade, Prajakta
Sanghavi, Saagar J.
Santurkar, Ishani
Sridhar, Sneha
Sripathy, Arjun
Sun, Jeffrey
Vichare, Sohan
Wang, Selena
Yang, Evelyn T.
Zeng, Amy Z.
Zhang, Cindy X.
Zhang, Xinyi
HOMESCHOOL
Chi, Ethan
HOMESTEAD H. S.
Chen, Michael Z.
Gray, Alistair J.
Hasser, Rebecca E.
Haymore, Rebecca S.
Kim, Sarah
Lee, Kaitlyn
Li, Vincent
Liu, Erica
Ning, Orion S.
Shah, Sarthak V.
Srinivasan, Rithika
Su, Evan H.
Tarn, Natalie
Wang, Kevin J.
Wang, Zhifei
Wang, Zhixue
Wu, Ryan
Yu, Christine
Zhou, Hao
Zhu, Rebecca
MONTA VISTA H. S.
Banerjee, Rakhi
Bhise, Rucha
Chang, Loren H.
Chen, Nicholas W.
Chiang, Vivian
Duan, Carolyn
Evans, Dylan M.
George, Nihal
Gopinath, Advith
Haines, Joshua M.
Haldar, Kinjal
Hsieh, Matthew L.
Hsu, William
Huang, Brian B.
Huang, Nancy C.
Jiang, Helen
Kathuria, Aurum
Khanna, Nikash N.
Kollareddy, Anisha
Kotesova, Hanna
Kwan, Michelle
Lalwani, Kriti
Lee, Min Hoo
Lee, Theresa S.
Lian, Sophie J.
Luo, Grace
Mahajan, Amita
Merchia, Atul R.
Qi, Grace
Ramachandran, Anika A.
Ray, Joy
Reddy, Priya
Ren, William Y.
Saha, Srijani
Shanker, Nikhita Z.
Shen, Jason X.
Sud, Bhavna
Suh, Samuel
Syskine, Daria V.
Tammineni, Himaja
Tang, Eric A.
Upadhyay, Rishi
Wan, Michael
Wang, Jasmine E.
Wu, Joyce
Yang, Forest
Yang, Gina Y.
Yang, Michael
Yang, Steve
Zhang, Claire
Zheng, Cindy R.
Zhou, Grace
Zou, Spencer Y.