A total of 104 Round Rock ISD students have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Westwood High School, with 68 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: 

Ian Kennedy, and

Vincent Tran.

McNeil High School: 

Truman Arthur,

Anshul Gulati,

Carissa Keng,

Darshan Koushik,

Polina  Lee,

Manav Lund,

Kanthi Makineedi,

Prithvi Menon,

Aniruddh Mishra,

Zayd Nadir,

Uzair Nawaz,

Elizabeth Pieper, and

Carter Poore.

Round Rock High School: 

Nathaniel Autry,

Sean Chang,

Madison Chapman,

Heonjae Cheong,

Hiya Dattani,

Sucharitha Gotham,

Krishna Grandhe,

Nicolas Hermoza,

Mallika Jade,

Karina Kosheleva,

Morris Lin,

Keira Padavil,

Kashvi Panjolia,

Kripa Philip,

Parul Sadasivuni,

Toby Saunders-Acourt,

Diya Shrawagi,

Risha Vankalapati,

Prajith Velicheti, and

Lucas Vines.

Stony Point High School: 

Anand Swami

Westwood High School:

Lasya Adivi,

Amoli Agarwal,

Manika Aggarwal,

Adarsh Ambekar,

Sanjay Amirthraj,

Jyotsna Arunkumar,

Anandatheertha Bapu,

Luke Brandes,

Emilia Cichocki,

Vijay Dagupati,

Aditi Dalal,

Venthan Dinesh,

Akshay Gaitonde,

Aaditya Ganesan,

Shreya Ganti,

Alice Guo,

Arsh Gupta,

Susan Hamilton,

Kevin Han,

Benjamin He,

Steven He,

Aanika Hirode,

Anna Irmetova,

Ashish Jacob,

Brian Jeon,

Pranav Katragadda,

Kavita Kohli,

Valentina Larina,

David Lee,

Hyunjae Lee,

Jessica Li,

Ethan Liu,

Sophia Louie,

Arnav Machavarapu,

Aakanksha Mahajan,

Aria Merchant,

lshanvi Mishra,

Suhaas Patil,

Srihasa Penchikala,

Prithiv Premkumar,

Jessamine Qu,

Akhila Rajesh,

Rajonna Sen,

Sofia Shah,

Ishaan Sharma,

Sohum Sharma,

Joyce Shen,

Cassandra Smith,

Elie Soloveichik,

Prayag Sreenivasan,

Armaan Srireddy,

Anupama Subramanian,

Ariel Sun,

Jasmine Sureka,

Brandi Tai,

Yashwitha Thindi,

Shreya Tiwari,

Aneesh Vanguri,

Vibha Velur,

Hanyu Wei,

Ai Ni Wu,

Kevin Xiao,

Anya Yaksh,

Olivia Yang,

Wesley Yeung,

Sophia Zhong,

Cindy Zhu, and

Caroline Zhuang.