A total of 75 Round Rock ISD students have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Westwood High School, with 57 semifinalists, led the District in total semifinalists.

Each year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selects the highest achieving students for its program. Approximately 16,000 students were selected as semifinalists among 1.5 million students nationwide who completed the Preliminary SAT and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, according to the organization.

Semifinalists have now advanced to apply for the finalist standing, which will be announced in February. Approximately 7,600 National Merit Scholarship award winners will be announced between March and June, according to the organization.

The following students were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists:

McNeil High School

  • Elizabeth Bryant
  • Jacqueline Kim
  • Amritavarshini Mayavaram
  • Abhinav Mugunda
  • Celine Nguyen
  • Kevin Qi
  • Adithya Sreenivasan
  • Catherine Wu
  • Yoori Yoon

Round Rock High School

  • Taj Bounds
  • Krishna Ganesh
  • Marco Ozzello
  • Anwesha Ranabijuli
  • Wendy Storms
  • Sarah Trusler
  • Jason Wang
  • Cooper Ward
  • Andrew Yin

Westwood High School

  • Chinmaya Andukur
  • Anoushka Asthana
  • Navya Cheruku
  • Maanasa Cherukuvada
  • Albert Cho
  • Ashray Desa
  • Anjali Devireddy
  • James Dong
  • Pooja Enagala
  • Helen Fang
  • Louis Fernandes
  • Maria Gallen
  • Kevin He
  • Ruhin Homchowdhury
  • William Kao
  • Donghyun Kim
  • Gaeun Kim
  • Kyung Min Lee
  • Richard Liu
  • Yasong Liu
  • Orlando Loveras
  • Catherine Lu
  • Derek Lu
  • Emily Lu
  • Aarushi Machavarapu
  • Nalin Mahajan
  • Aditi Merchant
  • Purvi Mujumdar
  • Shruthi Nampoothiri
  • Janice Oh
  • Linette Page
  • Gauri Pargaonkar
  • Tuan Pham
  • Alisha Rawal
  • Suji Ro
  • Avinav Saini
  • Nisha Seyed Mohamed
  • Nehali Shah
  • Syedah Shah
  • Karthik Shetty
  • Sonia Shrotriya
  • Natasha Skergan
  • Nicole Souydala
  • Anika Srinath
  • Prathik Srinivasan
  • Anna Stankes
  • Alexandra Swank
  • Gary Tang
  • Vivian Tran
  • Abigail Truong
  • Sneha Venkatesan
  • Amy-Doan Vo
  • Straley Webb
  • Jenny Xu
  • Andrea Yi
  • Angela Zhang
  • Jenny Zhang