Gwinnett Seniors among Semifinalists in the 2024 National Merit® Scholarship Program

September 13, 2023

 

     Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation^®(NMSC) announced the names of 80 Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) seniors and semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented students are part of 16,000 seniors across the U.S. who have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered next spring.

     To be considered for a National Merit^® Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 95% of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the finalists will win a National Merit^® Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar^® title.

GCPS’ 2023-2024 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists:

Archer High

Brandon J. Woolfolk

 

Brookwood High

Ella C. Chen

Dillon Grose

Katherine R. Johnson

Jake C. Lin

Mili N. Patel

Kapil Shankar

Scarlett I. Simmon

Aidan T. Stanley

Shayda E. Torab

Matthew Xu

Calvin H. Zhu

 

Collins Hill High

Deborah Hwang

 

Duluth High

Cassandra E. Norris

 

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Gabriel M. Babb

Ipsita Bhattacharya

Rayna X. Chang

Iian M. Chen

Sunny N. Desai

Jason Dong

Bryan E. Ebagua

Harold H. Fu

Haven A. Hardy

Inhyuk Hwang

Kevin Jacob

Abhiram Kapaganty

Branden H. Kim

Hakimuddin H. Kitabwalla

Jade C. Lasanajak

Parv Mahajan

Diana E. Mawejje

Junmo Moon

Aayan M. Mukul

Seohyun Park

Anandita Pathak

Emily H. Phan

Sohaib Samad

Mitesh M. Shah

Kaylyn Shao

Elizabeth Singh

Shreya S. Srinivasan

Shivani H. Trivedi

Sohum Trivedi

Julian Varga

Nathan A. Wong

Eric Xu

Steven X. Zhou

 

Lanier High

Cameron B. Lott

 

Mill Creek High

Esther M. Jung

Alexander J. Vaitl

 

Norcross High

Lisa C. Van Ness

 

North Gwinnett High

Lynden S. Baek

Dan Bratu

Ian J. Carsley

Yeseo Han

Aaron J. Kim

Philip Kim

Brennan D. Klingenberg

Jiali Liu

Eunice B. Maia

Keira C. Olds

Claire Park

Ethan S. Ro

Jonathan K. Schofield

Arjun R. Sheth

Noble L. Strickland

Jenny Thai

Jillian E. Vacha

Norman Wang

 

Parkview High

Josie Chang

Grace M. Chiu

Aaron Qu

Alexis U. Solorzano

Devin A. Wright

Henney S. Wu

 

Paul Duke STEM High

Peyton J. Harvey

 

Peachtree Ridge High

Rahul Pandit

Hailey Y. Park

Ananya Saxena

 

Seckinger High

Hanvit L. Jung

 

     Over 1.3 million juniors from 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT^®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.

     To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT^® or ACT^® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.