A total of 70 Round Rock ISD students have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Westwood High School, with 44 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.
The following students were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists:
Cedar Ridge High School:
Shirpa Ganesh
Ojas Phirke
Early College High School:
Alyssa Tran
McNeil High School:
Sarah Chu
Sowon Kang
Jennifer Kim
Joanne Kim
Christina Ko
Namish Kukreja
Jacob Lijoy
Nitish Malluru
Adrita Raychaudhuri
Jessica Shoemaker
Round Rock High School:
Siyaa Agora
Adarsh Ashok
Nicholas Dienstbier
Andrew Friedrich
Vivek Vardhan Gaddam
Soham Govande
Atharva Gujrathi
Suravi Karpe
Catherine Martin
Apoorav Rathore
Sophia Richert
Jadon Swearingen
Stony Point High School:
Nicholas Marquez
Westwood High School:
Imran Aziz
Daniel Chen
Flora Cheng
Jeff Cunningham
Alfred Darwin
Sanat Dubey
Maxim Gao
Eric Gu
Zhongyan He
Christopher Huh
Skye Iley
Andrew Jiang
Annie Kim
Dohyun Kim
Ian Kim
Yunoo Kim
Rachel Koh
Tanisha Kundu
Carrie Li
Sarah Liau
Maimuna Masud
Alexander Maughan
Anoushka Narayan
Lucas Ngo
Sarah Qi
Govind Ramesh
Varun Ramesh
Raghav Rangan
Teresa Ren
Shoumik Roychowdhury
Hrushikesh Saranu
Luc Schwalm
Varun Srinivasan
Willow Stenglein
Aman Tewari
Raymond Wang
Reyna Wang
Jaeyeon Won
Eric Xu
Katherine Yan
Amanda Yin
Sarah Zeng
Chelsea Zhang
Rowechen Zhong
