Sixty-five Round Rock ISD students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists, following the annual announcement by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selects the highest achieving students for its program. Approximately 15,000 students across the nation were selected as finalists. All winners of the National Merit Scholarship award are chosen from the finalist group based on their abilities, skills and accomplishments. A variety of information is available for National Merit Scholarship selectors to evaluate including the finalist’s academic record, information about the school’s curricula and grading system, two sets of test scores, the high school official’s written recommendation, information about the student’s activities and leadership, and the finalist’s own essay according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Approximately 7,600 National Merit Scholarship awards winners will be announced between March and June, according to the organization.

The following students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists:

 

Cedar Ridge High School

  • Shirpa Ganesh
  • Ojas Phirke

Early College High School

  • Alyssa D.Tran

McNeil High School 

  • Sara Chu
  • Sowon Kang
  • Jennifer Kim
  • Joanne Kim
  • Christina Kim
  • Namish Kukreja
  • Jacob Lijoy
  • Nitish Malluru
  • Adrita Raychaudhuri

Round Rock High School 

  • Siyaa Arora
  • Adarsh Ashok
  • Nicholas T. Dienstbier
  • Andrew J. Friedrich
  • Vivek Vardhan R. Gaddam
  • Soham V. Govande
  • Atharva A. Gujrathi
  • Suravi S. Karpe
  • Catherine J. Martin
  • Apoorav Rathore
  • Sophia F. Richert
  • Jadon L. Swearingen

Stony Point High School

  • Nicholas Marquez

Westwood High School 

  • Imran Aziz
  • Daniel Chen
  • Flora Cheng
  • Jeff Cunningham
  • 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
  • Sarah Qi
  • Govind Ramesh
  • Varun Ramesh
  • Raghav Rangan
  • Teresa Ren
  • Shoumik Roychowdhury
  • Hrushikesh Saranu
  • Varun Srinivasan
  • Willow Stenglein
  • Aman Tewari
  • Raymond Wang
  • Reyna Wang
  • Eric Xu
  • Katherine Yan
  • Amanda Yin
  • Sarah Zeng
  • Chelsea Zhang
  • Rowechen Zhong