A total of 105 Round Rock ISD students have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Westwood High School, with 78 semifinalists, led the District in total semifinalists.
Westwood High School also had the highest number of semifinalists of any Texas high school and set a campus record for most semifinalists named in one year.
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.
The following students were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists:
Early College High School:
Connor Gonzalez
Chloe Rech (Commended)
Cedar Ridge High School:
Abigail Beasley
Abhay Khanna
William Lamparter
Caleb Lewis
Rahul Shaji
McNeil High School:
Aaryan Amin
Archita Amudhan
Lyssa Frank
Benjamin Li
Dana McCoy
Aashi Rastogi
Maanas Shah
Myra Stickney
Evelyn Tjoa
Samuel Zhou
Round Rock High School:
Benjamin Chafin
Kiran Chandrasekhar
Siddbarth Iyer
Deepak Katta
Mainur H. Khan
Justin Lee
Eric X. Ma
Conner S. Mullen
Tanya Pawawongsak
Pranav Venkatesh
Westwood High School:
Emilia Adcock
Sohan Agnihotri
Akshata Badrayani
Shreya Baranga
Liam Benner
Abhijay Bhaskaran
Avinash Bhaskaran
Ellie Brandes
Kayla Bui
Ayan Chaudhry
Satvik Dasari
Swapnil Dash
David Deng
Ayush Deshmukh
Ishan Deshpande
Sourav Dhar
Naser Farhataziz
Caleb Fowler
Adwita Gadre
Ethan Garcia
Emma Goolsbey
Arnav Gunwani
Priyanka Gupta
Aditi Hiremath
Helen Huang
Sho Humphries
Prachi Ingle
Mark Ippolito
Vibhav Iyengar
Vikram Joshi
Joshua Kang
John Kangos
Rohan Kartha
Elliot Kim
Kyan Kornfield
Isabella Lam
Vivian Lang
Cassidy Lee
Shannon Lei
Cathleen Li
Hannah Liu
Jessica Lu
Zarek Lu
Ananth Madan
Parth Matalia
Jessica Math
Jack Moran
Anavi Nayak
Haomin Ng
Dhruv Nistala
Siddhant Pandit
Alayna Pelayo
Lane Popps
Ansh Purohit
Joshua Robert
Anouka Saha
Arjun Seth
Harshil Shah
Samuel Siegel
Anand Singh
Keshv Srinivasan
Pranav Srinivasan
Joseph Stanley
Risha Sur
Aylin Tanriverdi
Orion Tian
Benjamin Truong
Nandika Tyagi
Athena Wang
Michael Wang
Adora Wu
Justin Xiao
Daniel Xiong
Erin Xu
Alexander Yi
Erin Zhang
Steven Zhang
Alyssa Zhu