Area Students Named 2024 National Merit Semifinalists
People Newspapers here recognizes the many 2024 National Merit Semifinalists from the schools we cover for achieving a status earned by fewer than 1% of high school seniors nationwide.
The students entered the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program as juniors by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). The nationwide pool of semifinalists includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
The program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
The nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) named more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide. Its leaders expect 95% of those to become finalists and about half of the finalists to win National Merit Scholarships.
Students will learn in early 2024 whether they are finalists, but the NMSC typically doesn’t announce their names to the media. Some 7,140 National Merit Scholarships – $28 million worth – will be offered in the spring.
To become a finalist, the semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application with information about the student’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.
ALCUIN SCHOOL
Austin H. Lee
Felix A. Ruda
CISTERCIAN PREPARATORY
William C. Brittian
Jacob R. Brown
Ryan W. Fang
Rithvik Gabri
John P. Jacob
Neel Perumandla
Rafael P. Ramirez
Jonathan W. Zabolio
THE COVENANT SCHOOL
Ryan Justema
Logan Rice
DALLAS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Bryce Chun
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Patrick W. Adams
Theodore B. Solomon
Shivani M. Swaminathan
GREENHILL SCHOOL
Vivaan Gupta
Pranav Joshi
Riya Kommineni
Seth Lee
Sophia Li
Ayne Park
Aditya Pulipaka
Pooja J. Sanghvi
HIGHLAND PARK H.S.
Jolie Z. Carlile
Zoie Z. Carlile
Wansu J. Deng
Milo H. Grossman
Jeff M. Kang
Richard Li
Benjamin T. Martin
Nathaniel M. McNeill
Kaylee Y. Son
Alexander J. Stucka
Matthew Y. Winford
Olivia Y. Xiao
Xianyong Zhu
HOCKADAY SCHOOL
Sanika Agarwalla
Sophia G. Braskamp
Eleanor B. Browne
Yiming Cai
Elise Cho
Jessica Chung
Angelina Dong
Angela X. Fan
Defne Gurun
Oluwafunmilayo D. Isaacs-Sodeye
Aadya R. Kuruvalli
Hyunmin Lee
Grace E. Little
Lily F. McKenna
Bridget N. Qiu
Isabelle M. Raymond
Anisha R. Sharma
Margaret L. Thompson
Ariana Wang
Lydia X. Wissel
Youyang Yuan
Kimberly Y. Zhang
Tongye Zhang
Ruojin Zhao
JESUIT DALLAS
Andrew M. Clay
Jackson J. Farragut
Charles J. Fent
PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Jeremy E. Kaplinsky
Benjamin S. Sheena
ST. MARK’S SCHOOL OF TEXAS
Vardhan Agnihotri
Siddarth R. Bidare
Ethan M. Bosita
Ethan Z. Gao
Zackary Y. Goforth
Matthew T. Gomez
Arnav Lahoti
John B. Long
Ashrit Manduva
Nathan W. Meyer
Christian N. Neisler
Alexander J. Nelson
Alex C. Pan
Rishi Rai
Arav Rawat
Grayson E. Redmond
Liam J. Seaward
Aditya Shivaswamy
Sohum M. Sukhatankar
Reed N. Sussman
Justin L. Tong
Daniel S. Weinstein
Thomas K. Whitehurst
Nathan B. Wilson
Howard Y. Zhang
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Gabriel W. Bibawi
Alexander Kim
Yi Le Lin
Molly S. Youn
URSULINE ACADEMY
Molly Nickols
