Congratulations National Merit Semifinalists
People Newspapers recognizes the 2025 National Merit Semifinalists from schools we cover for achieving a status earned by fewer than 1 percent of high school seniors nationwide.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) expects 95 percent of the 16,000 semifinalists named nationwide to become finalists and half of finalists to win a National Merit Scholarship. Students will learn in early 2025 whether they are finalists, but NMSC typically doesn’t announce those names to the media.
Cisterian Preparatory
Silas Choi
Adam Delgado
John Duhe
Joshua Hays
Carter Kenny
Dhruva Kumar
Riley Murphy
Archer Oliver
Rishabh Rengarajan
John Weinberg
Greenhill School
Ali Agha
Neha Bachu
Saida Bidiwala
Jonaki Bose
Ishaan Kandoth
Varun Mukund
Elizabeth Nassi
Pranav Sreenivas
Aditi Vikram
Sherry Zhang
Episcopal School
John H. Cronin
Cindy Y. Lin
Hillcrest High School
William C. Turner
Hockaday School
Anna C. Crook
Elizabeth J. Gum
Aimee W. Guo
Anika Kapoor
Faiha Khurram
Rayna Li
Olivia Qiu
Elizabeth A. Steger
Ava J. Thigpen
Shreya Vijay
Mary A. Walton
Carissa Ye
Kendal E. Young
Highland Park High School
Mary S. Brady
Elverum, Jake L.
David C. Guo
Natalie K. Koch
Neelan Krishna
Andrew S. Li
Yiyoung Liu
Graham M. Longhofer
Asher G. Pinson
Yincheng Qian
Lakshmi Vemula
Emma L. Wang
Emma Z. Wang
Danica Xiao
Lauren Y. Yue
St. Mark’s School of Texas
Zachary Andrews
Carson Bosita
Matthew Bybee
Surya Dinesh
Jesuit Dallas
Leonardo M. Hernandez
Keagan T. McDuffie
Conor C. Parro
Ewan M. Randles
Carter A. Weiss
Trinity Christian Academy
Karys Karlow
Ursuline Academy
Logan Foster
Ana Meza
Austin Dunbar
Theodore Fleiss
Noah Grant
Neel Jain
Andrew Jin
Linyang Lee
Luke Lemons
Wyatt Loehr
Shyam Maddukuri
Akash Manickam
Jeremy Mau
Akul Mittal
Adithya Munshi
Jaden Ouyang
Deven Pietrzak
Arjun Poi
Samuel Posten
Hilton Sampson
Daniel Sun
Joseph Sun
Andrew Xuan
Max Yan
Junkai Yang
Neil Yepuri
Ethan Zhang
