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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2019 NATIONAL NA TIONAL MERIT ME RIT ® SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM September 12, 2018 Announcement Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Public Information
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Advance: For release on Wednesday Wednesday,, September 12, 2018 Note to editors: Semifinalists in i n your state are listed alphabetically by city and high school following this press release. This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names of fi nalists; its use for any other purpose Semi fi purpose is prohibited.
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Semifinalists in the 2019 National Merit ® Scholarship Program (Evanston, Illinois) Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NM (NMSC) SC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 7 ,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar ® title. NMSC, NM SC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct cond uct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 410 business organizations and higher education institutions that share N MS MSC’s C’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
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Steps in the 2019 Competition
Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 22,0 00 high schools entered the 2019 20 19 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 2 017 Preliminary SA S AT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSA (PS AT/NMS T/NMSQT QT ®), 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 highestscoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and his or her high school must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. received . 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® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and in February F ebruary they will be notified of this designation. de signation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference. National Merit Scholarships
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2019. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 2,5 00 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 230 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children o f the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offi ces are located. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2019 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding conclud ing in July. These scholarship recipients will join some 338,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title. #
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Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
BREA
BREA OLINDA H. S. 999 Hsieh, Kate A. 907 Kim, Kenneth M. 302 Linder, Jacob R. 300 Yu, Matthew
BRENTWOOD
CALIFORNIA AGOURA HILLS
AGOURA H. S. 450 Cao, Jennifer L. 843 Crossley, Samuel O. 908 Gelnak, Nicolette 628 Hezaway, Donya N. 720 Jo, Hannah A.
ALAMEDA
ALAMEDA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE 270 Fu, Chixue
ALBANY
ALBANY H. S. 300 Higgins, Cara X. 741 Judge, John N. 162 Kearney, Milo 999 Porras, Natalia Y. 999 Xing, Albert 999 Zhong, Evan 303 Zhong, Yunfan
ALHAMBRA
ALHAMBRA H. S. 202 Wu, Ryan T.
MARK KEPPEL H. S. 454 Sy, Sabrina D. 457 Tran, Raymond 628 Trinh, Aaron C. 201 Tse, Iram F.
ALISO VIEJO
ALISO NIGUEL H. S. 303 Chang, Christopher K. 164 Heine, Christina R. 456 Howard, Shaun W. 999 Stefanides, Dana L. 451 Sui, Angelo X. 160 Tran, Robert K.
ANAHEIM
CANYON H. S. 201 Chon, Kaitlin H. 000 Vu, Michael P.
FAIRMONT PREPARATORY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 161 Peletis, Erika T.
ANTELOPE
ANTELOPE H. S. 628 Doan, Thuan-Huong
ARCADIA
ARCADIA H. S. 000 Atasoy, Ailin 450 Basinger, Geoffrey L. 214 Chang, Margaret 455 Chen, Jessie J. 792 Cheng, Lucia S. 300 Frame, Dean A. 999 Hooper, Estelle H. 740 Huang, Michael 303 Huang, Victor W. 175 Ke, Jason 457 Liang, Michelle A. 999 Liu, Isabella B. 303 Luu, Ivan Y. 161 Maung, Kelvin L. 628 Mohandoss, Grace N. 160 Qi, Jennifer 303 Shue, William 999 Silla, Anusha 455 Song, John M. 160 Tan, Kevin 450 Wang, Ryan 303 Ye, Sean 830 Yu, Gabriela Z.
ARCATA
ARCATA H. S. 628 Gerving, Olivia K.
HERITAGE H. S. 843 Sison, Gabriel A.
ATASCADERO
ATASCADERO H. S. 160 Jen, Jessica R.
BURBANK
JOHN BURROUGHS H. S. Maskara, Anika
ATHERTON
459
MENLO - ATHERTON H. S. Chew, Hannah T. Hanna, Cecilia Kulshresta, Misha C. Lau, Mason McDonnell, Lauren P. Quinlan, Anna E. Shanker, Devan S.
955 843 168 160 904 160 301
BURLINGAME
BURLINGAME H. S. 301 Cummings, Andrew G. 999 Kennedy, Allison H. 454 Lai, Ethan W. 301 Mohr, Katherine G. 450 Park, Junha
MENLO SCHOOL 836 Chiruvolu, Jay S. 999 Hilderbrand, Natalie 907 Kafayi, Kevin D. 628 Kalaw, Adrian C. 303 Li, May 453 Li, Walter E. 740 Liu, Vivian 160 Ross, Alejandro D. 303 Sahai, Arushi 185 Thomases, Alexa B. 459 Vercruysse, Alec F. 303 Woodside, Thomas M. 467 Zhang, Ethan
CALABASAS
843
AUBURN
CARLSBAD H. S. 303 Kaur, Gurleen
BAKERSFIELD
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL 000 Subramanian, Sanjai R. 000 Whitworth, Amelia Y. SAGE CREEK H. S. 300 Dong, Alexander P. 628 Meinen, Catherine M.
STOCKDALE H. S. 999 Jian, Kelsey L. 600 Kim, Isaac Y. 160 Mubin, Anusha 160 Sohail, Eesha R.
CARMEL
CARMEL H. S. 303 Henderson, Aristotle
BELMONT
CARMICHAEL
CARLMONT H. S. 904 Atkin, Michael J. 628 Balster, Benjamin 302 Brown, Nicholas 302 Huh, Laurena 454 Jiang, Rebecca 457 Jung, Maxwell G. 999 Nie, Joanne 830 Shapiro, Andrey
CHULA VISTA
HOMESCHOOL 999 Chapman, Noelle G.
CARLSBAD
BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN H. S. Hoffman, Davis J.
RUBEN S. AYALA H. S. Liang, Ashley C. Park, Helena Y. Yoon, David
EASTLAKE H. S. 628 Adjasu, Justin K. 301 Jang, Doseok
FAITH BAPTIST SCHOOLS 600 Yang, Kelly
500
CHINO HILLS
ADOLFO CAMARILLO H. S. 161 Ruehlin, Kristen
CANOGA PARK
PLACER H. S. 999 Ryan, Connor P.
DON ANTONIO LUGO H. S. Ravenstein, Ethan J.
451
CHINO HILLS H. S. 450 Au, Nathan Y.
WESTMONT H. S. 999 Sechen, Daniela B.
BUHACH COLONY H. S. Vanga, Vivek
CHINO
VIEWPOINT SCHOOL Hameetman, Katherine E. Toberoff, Alexandre A.
CAMPBELL
185
SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL Chitty, Christian S.
000
CALABASAS H. S. 710 Sengupta, Sanath S.
CAMARILLO
ATWATER
CHATSWORTH
160 160 950
999 209
SACRED HEART PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 300 Caceres, Antonio M. 559 Heafey, Matthew R. 907 Rizvi, Rayan H. 450 Tuomala, Bridget Q.
GRETCHEN WHITNEY H. S. Ahn, David H. Brar, Jaslyn Chen, Hannah L. Dong, Justin Jewik, Jason K. Lacayo, Matthew R. Mak, Angela Nambiar, Anjali Senanayake, Dinithi S. Vo, Nicholas Xu, William Y. Zhao, Jiangda
000 450 773 836 302 457 164 160 843 467 467 303
JESUIT H. S. 907 Caslin, Seamus M. 204 Sandman, Jacob O.
MATER DEI CATHOLIC H. S. Carretero Chavez, Adrian R.
OLYMPIAN H. S. 999 Le, Courtney-An H. 830 Yager, Kaia
CLAREMONT
CLAREMONT H. S. 454 Yeung, Hayden WEBB SCHOOL OF CALIFORNIA Chow, Wing
450
CONCORD
DE LA SALLE H. S. 168 Cumbelich, William J.
CORONA
CENTENNIAL H. S. 450 Morgan, Brendan J.
HOMESCHOOL 843 Ohara, Allison S. SANTIAGO H. S. 162 Hoang, Megan T.
COVINA
CHARTER OAK H. S. Tran, Phil
185
CUPERTINO CARPINTERIA
CATE SCHOOL 000 Kim, Alex 000 Kim, Jeffrey J. 000 Laurence, Luke A. 000 Zhao, Jason S.
NOTRE DAME H. S. 160 Pan, Wenqi
CARSON
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 999 Doyle-Jacobson, Samantha 303 Lin, Ted
BENICIA
BENICIA H. S. 204 Graves, Briland E.
BERKELEY
CASTRO VALLEY
BERKELEY H. S. 883 Ball-Burack, Noah L. 999 Blankespoor, Sarah E. 999 Bojdak-Yates, Itai S. 700 Fa-Kaji, Gemma 161 Frye, Maren S. 773 Ghosal, Gaurav R. 999 Hendrikse Liu, Maxime 999 Teigen, Kyra
CASTRO VALLEY H. S. Wang, Edward Zhuze, Kirill
461 742
HOMESCHOOL 162 Henneker, Lucy H.
CERRITOS
CERRITOS H. S. 456 Tai, Kevin
BEVERLY HILLS
BEVERLY HILLS H. S. Lee, William J. Simoni, Ariella D.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. Long, Brennan D.
360 303
559
3
CUPERTINO H. S. 454 Attaluri, Nithya S. 300 Chang, Helen S. 999 Fan, Emily J. 303 Glawitsch, Alexis 450 Heap, William E. 000 Kim, Jimin 999 Krishnamurthy, Sahana 999 Lacy, Jade J. 303 Nair, Gokul S. 303 Poon, Timothy C. 160 Qin, Crystal L. 773 Rahman, Abrar F. 712 Rassieur, Leo W. 303 Shao, Siting 467 Subramanian, Avinash 160 Wang, Ralph 204 Wu, Casper
HOMESTEAD H. S. 456 Bronicki, Nadav 451 Chen, Michael 301 Cheng, Eric 000 Chua, Zhi-Ying 457 DeAnda, Daniel C. 303 Dias, Shaylan M. 950 Edwards, James C. 773 Feng, Gilbert R.
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 457 164 870 999 720 451 303 160 723 303 303 467 162 843 209 500 450
Gao, Trinity Ghosh, Rohit Hao, Anke Ikeya, Megan M. Iyer, Neharika Jayadeep, Aishwarya Kattuparambil, Abhishek B. Khosla, Mira A. Lei, William S. Ma, Jeffrey McAllister, David R. Thurm, Noah J. Wu, Ken O. Yamakawa, Pasqualle S. Yu, Xinqi Zhang, Jessica Zhong, Jannie
MONTA VISTA H. S. 457 Amara, Rahul V. 200 Arora, Radha 830 Bharadwaj, Shreyas K. 303 Bhatt, Ravi 830 Bhoj, Praneet 999 Chang, Claire E. 451 Cheerla, Anika 303 Chen, Brenna J. 450 Chen, Sophia 999 Chi, Kenneth S. 870 Chodavarapu, Sarvagnya R. 459 Chuppala, Rithvik R. 999 Datta, Gaurav 303 Feng, Sarah E. 999 Ganesh, Akhilan N. 170 Gong, Cynthia Z. 160 Gong, Jeffrey C. 999 Guo, Ethan Y. 628 Han, Cathy 999 Heo, Danielle 300 Hom, Cynthia H. 300 Hong, Joshua 162 Kamarshi, Vivek V. 999 Karandikar, Rhea 303 Karivaradasamy, Divya 843 Kavoori, Ishaan H. 999 Ketavarapu, Mythili 160 Krishnapura, Ananya R. 628 Lee, Jessica 600 Lee, Shawn J. 300 Lin, Ashley 000 Lin, Cathie 000 Ma, Brandon C. 000 Manikkoth, Mehreen 218 McNelis, Irene M. 303 Narayana, Shriniketh 843 Nie, Jacob H. 303 Park, Matthew H. 301 Rajaram, Sidharth S. 999 Rosenthal, Carl 160 Sarkar, Nandini 301 Shah, Urvi T. 209 Sodem, Vishal 450 Sreedhar, Rohan 999 Thakuria, Shruti 450 Thontakudi, Anjali 301 Tien, Jeremy 700 Vora, Meet R. 303 Wang, Eric R. 450 Wang, Jim 999 Wu, Andrew 999 Wu, David S. 606 Yu, Trent H.
CYPRESS
OXFORD ACADEMY 628 Chen, Emma G. 000 Chen, Joshua 300 Cheung, Joshua P. 161 Gao, Amanda W. 160 Gonzales, Sophia Luz D. 000 Jun, Junesoo 160 Lee, Seo Young 162 Nguyen, Brian 710 Perera, Shehani M. 712 Zeng, Samuel
DANA POINT
DANA HILLS H. S. 907 Phan, Langston J. 456 Potter, Dylan M.
DANVILLE
EL DORADO HILLS
ATHENIAN SCHOOL 999 Corr, Rose 830 Plunkett, Cailin S.
OAK RIDGE H. S. 999 Huang, Ethan 907 Misso, Kenzie B.
EL SEGUNDO
MONTE VISTA H. S. 455 Abravanel, Megan E. 160 Bairaboina, Sourish 161 Chan, Bernard S. 999 Fang, Raymond 836 Harding, Kathryn 302 Kim, Kenneth S. 628 Kim, Melanie M. 454 Lim, Su Min 999 Little, Wesley 160 Vavra, Madeline H.
EL SEGUNDO H. S. 999 Kirsten, Quin R. 160 Liu, Jason J. 160 Liu, Lucia B. 892 Tritasavit, Matthew Q.
VISTAMAR SCHOOL 000 Chwalek, Sabrina M.
ELK GROVE
COSUMNES OAKS H. S. Cister, Veronica H.
619
SAN RAMON VALLEY H. S. 999 Boatwright, Amelia E. 185 Jih-Schiff, Ava E. 185 Shi, Kathy 204 Tavella, Katherine A. 450 Zhang, Andrew E.
ELK GROVE H. S. 999 Syed, Ibrahim FRANKLIN H. S. 999 Lei, Jasmine
DAVIS
ENCINITAS
DAVIS H. S. 250 Burke, Molly F. 999 Goidell, Jacob B. 000 Kumar, Vasanth 950 Martin, Nina K. 830 Mitchell, Aniela J. 450 Mitchell, Charlotte 836 Park, Sue Bin D. 948 Rairdan, Erin A. 450 Song, Patrick
SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY Broadbooks, Ian M. Cheng, Matthew K. Edwards, Zackery P. Peeler, Naomi D. Rudman, Taylor M.
843 450 950 832 254
ESCONDIDO
CLASSICAL ACADEMY H. S. Pak, Elliot T. Sung, Crystal
461 990
DIAMOND BAR
DIAMOND BAR H. S. 904 Ge, Grace Y. 999 Hong, Samantha T. 455 Ip, Wesley E. 628 Lee, Christine S. 200 Li, Ryan 522 Miyahara, Amy L. 999 No, Isaac Y. 903 Pang, Ashley 830 Scaccia, Phoebe Y. 467 Seo, Andrew 629 Wang, Alice J. 792 Wang, Yuwen 999 Wong, Keith M. 999 Yarmoski, Ted D. 450 Yeh, Timothy J. 627 Zhang, Angela S. 999 Zhang, Catherine 185 Zhou, Christine W.
EUREKA
ACADEMY OF THE REDWOODS Crans, Kaleb A.
CIRCLE OF I NDEPENDENT NDEPENDENT LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL 712 Rema, Deepti S. HOMESCHOOL 451 Ngotiaoco, Joshua IRVINGTON H. S. 999 Ali, Mehdi 163 Bhat, Amit M. 999 Cheah, Sean Y. 303 Chiu, Jeffrey K. 160 Fan, Sherry 821 Ganguli, Reetam 185 Ho, Desiree 209 Huang, Kerry 000 Lad, Rishik D. 999 Lee, Jessica B. 454 Lee, Ryan H. 450 Lei, Catherine K. 457 Li, Victor 907 Lin, Aaron H. 600 Liu, Vicki 999 Liu, Vivian 450 Mairal, Shruteek A. 843 Mao, Kevin 455 Pandit, Bilal 629 Phan, Alyssa T. 999 Rao, Anikait 303 Rathod, Aditya G. 185 Sanghvi, Isha 168 Shoroff, Anvitha 854 Skala, Stephen J. 164 Srivastava, Roshni 160 Vajragiri, Shreya 185 Vichare, Aditi M. 303 Wang, Brian C. 168 Wang, Jaime J. 999 Wu, Kareena M. 166 Yang, Tianhui 457 Zhu, Alexander Y.
999
FAIR OAKS
SACRAMENTO WALDORF SCHOOL Taylor, Juliette Lee
559
FAIRFIELD
VANDEN H. S. 168 Vaughn, Jordan A.
FOLSOM
FOLSOM H. S. 303 Chao, Justin 160 Hong, Jason 907 Ma, Strong 121 Smith, Naomi 870 Tzeng, Jasmine 302 Xu, Brian S. 204 Yang, Conner
DUBLIN
DUBLIN H. S. 160 Chopra, Manan 904 Deivaprakash, Aaron 501 Harpanhalli, Neha 303 Jiang, Kevin Y. 160 Kavalipati, Archishma S. 907 Kedia, Priyanka 164 Koh, Christy W. 164 Kulkarni, Yash S. 450 Lenka, Rishabh 948 Liu, Jennifer 185 Madhusudan, Nahusha 628 Manthana, Rishik 771 Pajjuri, Mallika 121 Rao, Ivan 459 So, John Ian R. 450 Tian, Jeffrey 162 Wong, Alice J. 303 Wu, Sarah S. 500 Zhu, Michael B.
VISTA DEL LAGO H. S. Ajudia, Om K. Lim, Jason M. Mittal, Ayushi
999 904 450
FOUNTAIN VALLEY
FOUNTAIN VALLEY H. S. Kim, Joseph H. Le, Vivianne Than, Anton T.
999 773 461
FREMONT
AMERICAN H. S. 301 Anantharaman, Vishal 457 Athreya, Tejal 303 Cao, David M. 303 Chen, Jeffrey L. 999 Chen, Melody F. 160 Chou, Pallas 999 Doan, Tung 218 Jagad, Sahil 303 Jhaveri, Varij 501 Kale, Gaurav N. 171 Katiyar, Puloma 999 Korimilli, Mythili S. 160 Kumar, Manasi 999 Mehta, Saagar A. 904 Ng, Ulysses 904 Patel, Shivam 999 Shan, Ingrid K. 160 Singh, Jaiveer 628 Solanki, Aarushi 454 Swaminathan, Rahul 300 Vaidya, Ananya K. 501 Yang, Timothy A.
EASTVALE
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT H. S. Li, Lindsay S.
999
EDWARDS
DESERT H. S. 162 Vuong, Eric T.
EL CAJON
GRANITE HILLS H. S. Silva, Miles B.
303
VALHALLA H. S. 947 LaFave, Elizabeth J.
4
MISSION SAN JOSE H. S. Ahmed, Sulaiman Banerjee, Samir Chen, Amy G. Chen, Andrew R. Chen, Kimberly H. Chen, Meichen Chen, Thomas S. Chong, Richard Feng, Benjamin B. Guo, Katherine Gupta, Aarushi Gupta, Arunav Huang, Delvin Iyer, Rahul S. Jain, Samir K. Jonnalagadda, Keya Kalucha, Kanav A. Kasad, Rukshad M. Khano, Jonathan E. Ko, Jonathan Kochar, Shreya H. Lightstone, Thalia L. Lin, Drake Luu, Alisa P. Mathuria, Ashni M. Miao, Jia Pan, Christopher Y. Panjwani, Shayan Patnaik, Anshuman Pillain, Aadhithya Prabhakar, Apurv Ray, Ronuk Ren, Michael X. Sagi, Nitin R. Sant, Amit A. Shi, Larry Srinivasan, Shreya Sui, Selena W. Tran, Chiron T. Wang, Andrew H. Wang, Ashley W. Wang, Mingjia Wen, Alan Wong, Ethan A. Wu, Anna D. Xing, Enya Xu, Vicki Yang, Jessie H. Yeung, Jacob J. Yu, Austin Yu, Maggie J. Zeng, Alan Zhao, Maggie Zheng, Nathan Q.
303 710 999 999 200 999 303 302 160 906 723 300 451 450 160 454 303 843 164 999 162 000 459 600 522 301 000 217 000 000 000 000 300 000 999 999 999 999 160 999 000 303 302 000 162 301 836 740 160 999 999 121 000 501
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued)
HERBERT HOOVER H. S. Antonyan, Davit
142 628 200 605
209
GLENDORA 160 999
Zhou, Anthony Y. Zhu, Erin
WASHINGTON H. S. 843 Jain, Harshil S. 450 Jain, Sanskriti 303 Makhratchev, Alexander K. 455 Moyya, Harsha 743 Ngo, Jarod Y. 461 Singh, Parul 209 Sugnani, Angad
FRESNO
CLOVIS NORTH H. S. Liu, Christopher D. Wu, Jingwen
999 171
CLOVIS WEST H. S. 164 Farooqi, Naasir UNIVERSITY H. S. 947 Kumagai, Hayley E. 302 Seay, Hallie L.
FULLERTON
FULLERTON UNION H. S. Miller, Joshua T.
470
SUNNY HILLS H. S. 628 Chung, Kelvin J. 740 Desai, Nisha 999 Fu, Megan S. 303 Huang, Jeren 454 Jang, Sophia H. 999 Kim, Hannah M. 710 Kim, Stephen Y. 450 Sheth, Shaan H. TROY H. S. 302 Byerly, Sophia M. 454 Chang, Colby E. 185 Cho, EunSaem 164 Clement, Darby G. 999 Guo, Justina 303 Hetts, Sophia A. 903 Hwang, Hannah 166 Immadisetty, Sreekavya 167 Jung, Sky M. 892 Kay, Rutvi P. 999 Khin, Shwe Y. 450 Li, Rongxuan 628 Liang, Fan 501 Liang, Johanna C. 451 Lin, Yinglong 201 Liu, Jessica 960 Liu, Karen T. 906 Long, Lydia H. 200 McBride, Christina P. 160 Nguyen, Kelly M. 160 Omoto, Shoichi 160 Pilkhane, Advait M. 303 Teng, Felianne 710 Tran, Dayne B. 303 Wang, Alicia 999 Wang, Chenwei 454 Wang, William K. 999 Xie, Michelle X. 501 Yang, Megan J. 904 Yang, Zilu 628 Yoo, Joshua H. 500 Young, Audrey C. 303 Yu, Kelly 450 Yue, Sylvester S. 185 Zhu, Michael Y. VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY 712 Kim, Charity H.
GARDEN GROVE
GARDEN GROVE H. S. 843 Pham, Nghiem T.
GILROY
DR. T. J. OWENS GILROY EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY 303 Apte, Alan 300 Dinh, Andrew K. 455 Melton, Samantha B. 300 Wong, Darice A.
GLENDALE
HOMESCHOOL 843 Suter, Nicolas E.
GLENDORA H. S. 185 Turunen, Jillyn R. 302 Yeung, Benjamin J.
Silver, Shira L. Tang, Mabel Tefft, Connor S. Vi Tang, Samantha Q.
CREAN LUTHERAN H. S. Lee, Jinwoo
000
GOLETA
HOMESCHOOL 901 Yim, Peter S.
DOS PUEBLOS H. S. Grosen, Paul C. Kretschmer, Miles J. Lindheim-Marx, Matthew T. Miao, Albert J. Qin, Michelle D. Ricard, Philippe R. Urschel, Henry C. Wachholz, Nathan M.
303 742 742 301 723 947 170 301
IRVINE H. S. 120 Bai, Isabella P. 830 Chen, Ryan 300 Gai, Lucy 559 Han, Seoyoon 999 Jin, Sophia S. 999 Kim, Sean 467 Lin, Sing Yu 300 Raj, Sidhant 300 Shen, Amy X. 999 Suh, Elaine 167 Sun, Irene 160 Xu, Robert
GRANADA HILLS
GRANADA HILLS CHARTER H. S. Blumkin, Samuel K. Boules, Mary C. Canlas, Alexander B. Chai, Benjamin Djellouli, Fatma S. Khan, Dilawar Muhaimen, Efaz E.
628 628 999 204 999 163 303
NORTHWOOD H. S. 301 Chakraborty, Aishik 999 Chan, Allison Y. 628 Cho, Michelle Y. 185 Cho, Young Hyuk 722 Chung, Angela 629 Chung, Ashley 162 Huynh, Linh M. 830 Jin, Eric L. 907 Kazi, Maryam S. 160 Kulkarni, Shivani 741 Lee, Jae Hwan 201 Li, Diane 161 Limaye, Dhruv 999 Liu, Aaron A. 904 Luo, Daniel T. 600 Ma, Julianna J. 999 Quin, Victoria 450 Rastogi, Ankit 160 Reddy, Deepika 854 Sohn, Joshua C. 303 Song, Justin 457 Subramanian, Adharsh 301 Suriakannu, Dhakshin 741 Wang, Kairey 164 Wang, Margaret F. 164 Wu, Miranda Y. 000 Zhao, Candi 000 Zhao, Junior
GRANITE BAY
GRANITE BAY H. S. 000 Hansen, Emily J. 000 Jang, Yena 000 Lynch, Julie 000 Mishra, Aditya 000 Xia, Vivian 000 Yung, Andrew F.
GRASS VALLEY
WILLIAM AND MARIAN GHIDOTTI H. S. 901 Shine, Sarah M.
HACIENDA HEIGHTS
LOS ALTOS H. S. 160 Tang, Jonathan M. GLEN A. WILSON H. S. 303 Yeh, Justin
HALF MOON BAY
HALF MOON BAY H. S. Lichtenberg, John P. Southern, Lani M.
742 522
HAWTHORNE
DA VINCI SCIENCE H. S. Bohney, Ryan
UNIVERSITY H. S. 907 Arasteh, Rahan 999 Cao, Ivy 999 Chawla, Rohan 999 Chen, Harry M. 999 Chen, Kyle 904 Cho, Kevin H. 999 Choy, Kayli 300 Deodhar, Atharva A. 303 Desu, Dhanvi 741 Diao, Michael Z. 160 Edwards, Haley C. 606 Eng, Alyssa 303 Feuerborn, Charles H. 000 Fruman, Madeleine S. 450 Fu, Aaron W. 171 Im, Justin J. 455 Jen, Kaleb 185 Jiang, Lan 450 Jue, Jet B. 904 Kim, Brian S. 160 Kim, Jamie P. 450 Kurniawan, David M. 450 Lee, Calvin J. 454 Lee, Tse-Hsiu 843 Li, Jerry J. 450 Lin, Albert K. 836 Ni, Anton Z. 455 Roy, Andrea K. 900 Shu, Ruisi 999 Sial, Annika 999 Talebzadeh Shoushtar, Daniel 999 Tang, Monica 204 Trinh, Tu N. 501 Verdegan, Noah J. 999 Xu, Alexander 999 Zhang, Maggie Q. 999 Zhang, Sandy Y. 999 Zhong, Amy X. 999 Zou, Joshua
302
HILLSBOROUGH
CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL 000 Chang, Justin T. 742 Desai, Meera C. 000 Heller, Natalie N. 000 Hora, Benjamin C. 000 Huang, Caroline I. 000 Huskins, John C. 000 Jiang, Alice J. 000 Lim, Justin P. 000 Rehman, Ella B. 000 Schroeder, Lilly S. 000 Shannon, Luke T. 000 Zhang, Amy L.
HUNTINGTON BEACH
HUNTINGTON BEACH H. S. Hwang, Annabel R.
161
MARINA H. S. 628 Vo, Minh-Tam H.
IRVINE
ARNOLD O. BECKMAN H. S. Bosch, Egan J. Chow, Noelle H. Garcia, Nicolas A. Heo, John Hwang, Seung Hyun Kang, Hyunwoo Lee, Joshua Y. Liang, Aimee Muller, Christopher T. Ok, Nari Park, Hyoungjin Schweich, Alexander M.
303 522 907 990 209 185 904 162 303 204 160 999
5
WOODBRIDGE H. S. 999 Chang, Benjamin 214 De Oliveira, Enzo Y. 204 Diamond, Mark N. 459 Ho, Matthew N. 999 Imeshev, Natalie 161 Park, David J. 467 Tseng, James 999 Yu, Emily M.
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE
FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 000 Fan, Christina 450 Huntley, Ryan M. 185 Jain, Rithik N. 000 Ledahl, Leslie S. 000 Rajan, Bavan P. 000 Wang, Emma J. LA CANADA H. S. 400 Ahn, Jared R. 164 Chae, Andrew Y. 999 Cheng, Jared 999 Cho, Harrison H. 164 Choi, Ryan J. 160 Hyon, Justin 185 Kwon, Andrew 254 Laus, Amanda C. 142 Lee, Kyle 457 Mo, Kevin 185 Muller, Veronica M. 907 Razdan, Diya
LA CRESCENTA
CRESCENTA VALLEY H. S. Nakama, Justin S. Ozeas, William C. Ryu, Debbie H. Saravanan, Anjana
457 970 160 843
LA HABRA
LA HABRA H. S. 451 Haraguchi, Ashley E.
LA JOLLA
THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL Brown, Maxwell W. Cartwright, Graham DeVoe, Bryce K. Kenagy, Isabelle R. Mischel, Sarah K. Murray, Kai L. Qu, Jerry R. Raguram, Rohit Savchuk, Ivan N. Szymanski, Elizabeth R. Tsu, Athena Wang, Crystal H.
999 999 000 700 000 302 843 454 999 185 000 740
LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Zhang, Newland C.
160
LA JOLLA H. S. 999 Andrey, Jennifer L. 710 Freund, Raphael W. 185 Herrmann, Elizabeth S. 999 Kim, Si Young 450 Liu, Monica Q. 999 Rickards, Jackson T. 628 Schroeder, Cate B.
LA PALMA
HOMESCHOOL 164 Chew, Everett M.
LA PUENTE
NOGALES H. S. 742 Cervantes, Osvaldo
LAFAYETTE
ACALANES H. S. 000 Kirsch, Brian D. 000 Lewis, Aidan E. 000 Martin-Holder, Paige L.
BENTLEY SCHOOL 303 Harris, Jeremy W.
LAGUNA BEACH
LAGUNA BEACH H. S. Fisher, Sebastian B. Gilles, Katherine M. Kvitsinski, Alexander A. Tran, Taylor Yang, Alexis S.
300 204 836 161 300
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) LAKE FOREST
EL TORO H. S. 302 Price, Tyler A.
LAKEWOOD
HOMESCHOOL 550 Benefield, Victoria N.
ST. JOSEPH H. S. 450 O'Connor, Veronica L.
LANCASTER
PARACLETE H. S. 843 Phoreman, Jade A.
LARKSPUR
REDWOOD H. S. 170 Chaver, Rivca S. 467 Dachtler, Gregory D. 450 Poduval, Achinthya S. 907 Von Klark, Lex
TAMISCAL H. S. 999 Rabow, Maya B.
LEMON GROVE
LIBERTY CHARTER H. S. 000 King, Holly E.
LIVERMORE
GRANADA H. S. 999 Larson, Matthew A. 457 Lau, Andrew S. 171 Myers, Sydney K. 160 Patra, Nikita 175 Smith, Colby R. 830 Zhuang, Ashley Y.
LIVERMORE H. S. 990 D'Souza, Indira A. 000 Nandamuri, Praneeth
KING DREW MAGNET H. S. OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE 454 Ojute, Adebayo
710 450
LE LYCEE FRANCAIS DE LOS ANGELES 559 Zanda, Cor S.
160
MISSION VIEJO H. S. Laitipaya, Shelby K.
TRABUCO HILLS H. S. 303 Desai, Rishi M.
LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR ENRICHED STUDIES 999 Pyo, Bryan
MONTEREY
MONTEREY H. S. 970 Hickman, Pavel
LOYOLA H. S. 160 Namkung, Joseph
YORK SCHOOL 450 Shi, Alexander H.
MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL 999 Burton, Camille M. 906 Danielpour, Sophia G. 454 Dill-Macky, Arabella 142 Luu, Kayla U.
MOORPARK
MARYMOUNT H. S. 451 Fry, Sarah R.
MORAGA
MOORPARK H. S. 628 Bal, Sartaj S. CAMPOLINDO H. S. 000 Derksen, Adriana N. 000 Hinchliff, Isabel 000 Kodali, Prudhvi 000 Kong, Alexander S. 000 Poon, Gabriel A. 000 West, Sofia E. 000 Yuan, Xueyun
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL Heitner, Bryce C. Swerdlow, Alexander J.
000 000
NEW COVENANT ACADEMY Nam, Alexander C.
185
SHALHEVET H. S. 000 Kligfeld, Noa D.
MORGAN HILL
OAKWOOD SCHOOL Zhao, Eric
990
UNIVERSITY H. S. 467 Rovinsky, Aaron
MOUNTAIN VIEW
MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S. Chen, Coral Daetz, Andrew P. Foy, Annemarie B. Jaffer, Zain Lee, Brandon S. Magee, Liam Nam, Danielle Ostrowski, Rachel P. Reay, Colin Thvar, Tejas S.
VENICE H. S. 120 Andersen, Desmond F. 160 Berman, Alyssa H. 457 Lin, Cindy
790 467 303 303 628 999 628 999 467 457
WINDWARD SCHOOL 160 Forman, Elyse B. 999 Glassner, Delaney M. 303 Schaberg, Lucas M.
LOS GATOS LOMPOC
CABRILLO H. S. 999 Schatz, Nathan C.
LONG BEACH
LONG BEACH POLYTECHNIC H. S. Lam, Ethan H. Shin, Erin C. White, Caris
501 160 185
LOS ALAMITOS
LOS ALAMITOS H. S. Hughes, Marley N. Kim, John Kunowski, Rachel H.
999 999 999
LOS ALTOS
LOS ALTOS H. S. 209 Choi, Seung J. 450 Cooper, Martin A. 400 Guesman, Leah K. 559 Halevy, Karina H. 200 Houston, Katherine E. 303 Huang, Shawn H. 302 Kekkar, Mihir S. 160 Lai, Henry 171 Meng, Jayde F. 162 Nathamuni, Krithika V. 628 Pham, Kolby H. 303 Sharma, Anya 501 Si, Evan 999 Theobald, Cody E. 162 Toomre, Teagan N. 870 Torokhov, Julia D. 830 Venkatraman, Ananya J. 160 Yin, Julia
LOS ANGELES
AMBASSADOR SCHOOL OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 999 Chu, Frederick THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Intveld, Aviva B.
HOMESCHOOL 836 Rosenheim, Joshua E.
ST. FRANCIS H. S. 450 Amarnath, Tarun 628 Dukkipati, Haripriya S. 166 Feng, Alina S. 300 Hasteer, Divija 209 Huang, Olivia J. 970 Jain, Sahana 162 Lu, Brian L. 501 Malladi, Bhargav S. 907 Menezes, Tanya L. 300 Mittal, Rohit R. 999 Mukund, Valmic S. 303 Namineni, Sarayu 467 Pandhigunta, Kaanthi C. 999 Peterson, James Z. 160 Shen, Andrew A. 970 Su, Annabel 628 Tashjian, Jennifer A. 200 Wu, Bryan Y. 999 Xu, Patrick D. 301 Yang, Sean A.
LOS GATOS H. S. 454 Chunawala, Zeeshaan 160 Cismaru, Ana 999 Frankel, Eoin G. 843 Hench, Michael J. 999 Herron, Laura E. 628 Judy, Ryan M. 830 Lin, Hannah J. 161 Mittelhauser, Annika H. 999 Rozas, Esperanza S. 204 Zhang, Jerry
MALIBU
MALIBU H. S. 450 Ford, Jessica E.
MANHATTAN BEACH
MIRA COSTA H. S. 836 Arnao, Isabella S. 160 Chen, Kevin H. 160 Cui, Brian 162 Park, Ethan D. 160 Tuffli, Olivia 100 Walker-van Aalst, Kira 160 Yu, Lulu
MURRIETA
VISTA MURRIETA H. S. Lin, Carlie
904
NAPA
JUSTIN - SIENA H. S. Bowman-Davis, Jordan K. Hyde, Mary C.
450 630
MILLBRAE
MILLS H. S. 168 Chan, Kelly M. 161 Ding, Eric H. 450 Shen, Joe F.
NEWBURY PARK
NEWBURY PARK H. S. 742 Doan, Lap G. 999 Dzieciol, Victoria A. 836 Ghanem, Maya 000 Joseph, Thomas O. 163 Prasad, Anya 300 Samuel, Kaira M. 742 Sullivan, Joseph P. 103 Wang, Clare 600 Zhuang, Emily J.
MILPITAS
MILPITAS H. S. 160 Brahmbhatt, Anvi A. 742 Chen, Ashley 400 de Guzman, Eric Gabriel M. 999 Deng, Junyu 200 Devictor, Antoine B. 185 Tai, Josephine 999 Yan, Lisa
000
FAIRFAX H. S. 454 Kim, Jiho
Meyer, Joshua Patterson, Michael
NEWHALL
MISSION VIEJO
WILLIAM S. HART H. S. 870 Lee, Lance S. 300 Totev, Gabriel T.
CAPISTRANO VALLEY H. S. 600 Kazemi, Saam
6
NEWPORT BEACH
CORONA DEL MAR H. S. Glenn, Hailey D. Thomas, Elena G.
907 904
SAGE HILL SCHOOL Nataupsky, Luke Peng, Jack C. Schell, Sydney Simpson, Ryan J. Stomber, William M.
450 999 200 303 303
NIPOMO
NIPOMO H. S. 742 Apel, Thomas L.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD
NORTH HOLLYWOOD H. S. Blum, Emily A. Chang, Junyoung Gasser-Brennan, Aeden P. Gonzalez, Yarani A. Goodman, Jason I. Husman, Glen C. Joo, Daniel S. Kazimirowiz, Samuel J. Kim, Hangyul Lyna Lee, Ronen O. Liu, Albert C. Loew Muscarolas, Diego M. Michaels, Tai L. Park, Emily S. Pham, Amy M. Reber, James P. Seok, Hoon J. Song, Kevin
450 833 301 185 740 300 451 450 836 121 162 907 161 720 163 450 628 453
OAKWOOD SCHOOL Wang, Justin
200
NOVATO
NOVATO H. S. 303 Muriithi, Jude K. SAN MARIN H. S. 450 Colenbrander, Tyler K. 185 Katewa, Aditya S.
OAK PARK
OAK PARK H. S. 999 Forster, Joyce M. 161 Gadepalli, Sravya 999 Ma, Grace L. 303 Pillai, Vinay S. 000 Vu, Jonathan G. 450 Wells, Andrew N. 000 Xiao, Wayne W.
OAKLAND
COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL Bhasin, Sarabjot S. Franklin, Daniel Z. Jia, Stanley Park, Benjamin Shin, Mary E. Xiao, Daniel Z.
000 000 000 999 450 854
HEAD - ROYCE SCHOOL Camp, Lee L. Hartigan-O'Connor, Eamon J. Rossi, Nicolas C. Soltz, Joshua H. Ushizima Sabino, Iris Xenakis, William M.
999 999 300 999 454 000
HOMESCHOOL 303 Green, Ruben A. BISHOP O'DOWD H. S. Connolly, Colm C. Odeste, Sofia C.
160 771
OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS Sanford-Eckhaus, Mollie G.
999
OAKLAND TECHNICAL H. S. Ahlers, Nicholas Saba, Dahlia H. Strayer, Oriane F.
740 999 121
OJAI
THE THACHER SCHOOL Harding, Lily Hosafros, Isabel
792 209
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) ONTARIO
COLONY H. S. 000 Cha, Maxwell J.
ORANGE
ORANGE LUTHERAN H. S. 455 Harris, Georgia M. 162 Kang, Joshua
ORCUTT
ORCUTT ACADEMY H. S. 742 Bennett, Kaden J.
ORINDA
MIRAMONTE H. S. 000 Chen, Alexander J. 000 Deng, David 000 Khim, Eugene 000 Lee, Elaine Y. 000 Louie, Garrett K. 000 Lucas, Daniel E.
OXNARD
OXNARD H. S. 000 Chongsathapornpong, Jade
PACIFIC PALISADES
PALISADES CHARTER H. S. 301 Bay, Asaph 300 Elkins, Jaden S. 906 Green, Sophia 300 Paller, Michael A. 209 Sarkissian, Tina E.
PACIFICA
TERRA NOVA H. S. 185 Bennett, Maxwell
PALM DESERT
PALM DESERT H. S. 160 Hjerpe, Danielle E.
PALO ALTO
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL 999 Akeley, Scarlett 166 Bhanot, Priya 999 Fearon, Katherine H. 999 Ho, Leigh 900 Khouri, Annika S. 170 Mak, Rebecca C. 999 Nevle Levoy, Sophia R. 999 Spencer, Lia L. 999 Triantis, Calista D. HENRY M. GUNN H. S. Aspegren, Olivia T. Borkar, Mihir Cai, Rachel X. Chang, Bryan Cheng, Sophia Chiang, Sophia H. Epstein, Eric R. Fang, Michelle L. Hou, Karly Huang, Kristie Ji, Roger Kessler, Abigail Kim, Hannah Kim, Youngju J. Leonard, Sarah A. Li, Alvin K. Li, Megan D. Li, Peter S. Liao, Benjamin C. Liu, Cherie Prabhakar, Arjun K. Sankar, Rishi R. Tan, Bryan X. Zhao, Andrew J.
830 457 300 999 999 461 722 160 300 308 459 520 450 999 843 303 999 301 843 303 772 303 451 999
KEHILLAH JEWISH H. S. 000 Cheskin, Joy S. PALO ALTO H. S. 169 Adamson, Nicole C. 904 Almogy, Itai B. 773 Anderson, Prashanti A. 791 Baldonado, Evan N. 160 Callan, Ashlyn A. 160 Douglas, Zoe A. 000 Foster, David J. 000 Frahn, Harrison R.
300 830 710 999 870 999 254 999 904 300 300 454 450 904 999 164 160 700 999 883 160 302 303
Govil, Neha Gupta, Ayush S. Hitchings, Ashley S. Ho, Leyton J. Ho, Natalie Huang, Benjamin Jhaveri, Soumya P. Jin, Daniel Li, Bridget J. Li, Janet S. McNealis, Nisha Meng, Julie L. Mou, Allison Y. Patwardhan, Nishant C. Ramrakhiani, Nathan S. Seshadri, Kaushik Srivastava, Ujwal Wagner, Warren D. Wang, Emily Y. Wang, Maurice Winefeld, Gila Yan, Calvin Yeung, Neil Y.
907 836
Tsuyuki, Bryce M. Woltkamp, Adeline E.
PLEASANT HILL
COLLEGE PARK H. S. Kastell, Nathan R.
501
PLEASANTON
AMADOR VALLEY H. S. Aavula, Manas Abhijit, Siddhant Bilkic, Nikolina N. Chawla, Esha Chen, Sandra Dougherty, Aidan A. Hu, Patrick Kanarsky, Timothy A. Kandula, Purvaj Katragadda, Kavya Kumfert, Quincy L. Kundur, Sruthi R. Kurapati, Shanta Lin, Aaron Y. Liu, Benjamin K. Miller, Amber Nally, Christopher Nath, Himshikha Rekesh, Andrei T. Shah, Rhea Shan, Samrah Shih, Justin Y. Tandean, Sarah C. Tu, Emil Wu, Jeffrey G. Ye, Jonathan J.
303 843 830 162 720 450 302 303 185 628 999 166 836 791 999 168 457 712 454 628 628 218 450 209 300 467
PALOS VERDES ESTATES PALOS VERDES H. S. 999 Kim, Youngeun 000 Shiao, Dylon B.
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA CHADWICK SCHOOL Chao, James B. Joshi, Tej A. Linden, Neville C.
999 999 000
PARADISE
FOOTHILL H. S. 160 Azhahiamanavalan, Archith 303 Biswal, Asim 160 Chen, Alex H. 164 Chui, Calvin H. 185 Hu, Erin Y. 467 Maddi, Akanksha 999 Padavala, Nikhil 162 Pawlak, Jacob 450 Prabhakar, Nisha 303 Ragu, Deepak 712 Ramalingam, Amritha 467 Rao, Varun S. 904 Wang, Michael 300 Zhang, Jasmine 830 Zhou, Winifred H. 461 Zhu, Genghe
PARADISE H. S. 742 Tickle, Kathryn A.
PASADENA
LA SALLE H. S. 900 Schoenbaum, Gwyneth J.
MARANATHA H. S. 467 De Guzman, Erica M. 303 Peng, Matthew Z. JOHN MARSHALL FUNDAMENTAL FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOL 202 Bronkar, Jerry R. POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL Cornwell, Elizabeth J. Grossman, Eli Guerra, Olivia I. Kim, Matthew J. Lee, Annette Macleod, Ian D. Maechling, Elizabeth S. Mantle, Desmond V. Oreck, Harper R.
000 999 000 999 000 000 160 907 900
PORTOLA VALLEY
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL Pollack, Caleb H. Russell, Christopher
161 700
QUARTZ HILL
QUARTZ HILL H. S. 162 Limb, Audrey 450 Park, Joseph S.
SEQUOYAH SCHOOL 166 Siskel, Louise D.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA LOS OSOS H. S. 450 Grewal, Saachi K.
WESTRIDGE SCHOOL Rossi, Iyla P. Schlageter, Frances R. Zareno, Kaitlin W.
185 557 450
RANCHO CUCAMONGA H. S. 450 Jain, Vatsal
PEBBLE BEACH
RANCHO MIRAGE
STEVENSON SCHOOL 553 Nielsen, Matthew
PALM VALLEY SCHOOL 843 Snyder, Benjamin T.
PETALUMA
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA
CASA GRANDE H. S. Kompalli, Shreyas
SANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC H. S. 553 Kang, Halie 459 Madisetti, Sonali 999 Wang, Samuel Y.
301
PIEDMONT
PIEDMONT H. S. 520 Lee, Ella J. 300 Sigal, Benjamin F.
TESORO H. S. 459 Ding, Jerry 628 Lee, Jason 204 Patel, Hiren 999 Rimer, David 628 Zhao, Alair
PLACENTIA
PARKVIEW H. S. 906 Lee, Lydia H. VALENCIA H. S. 142 Bishop, Sienna N. 303 Detchev, Daniel P. 302 Huh, Andrew 821 Lee, Caitlin A. 999 Liu, Curtis S. 457 Mard, Lauren M. 883 Park, Nicole 942 Pierce, Jacqueline P.
REDLANDS
GROVE H. S. 723 Dettloff, Brianna 740 Richards-Dinger, Daniel C.
303 450 160
Hu, Richard Z. Li, George Liu, Kevin C.
REDONDO BEACH
REDONDO UNION H. S. Morrison, Hannah Pape, Lucia
559 742
REDWOOD CITY
DESIGN TECH H. S. 450 Harsono, Ryan HOMESCHOOL 303 John, Jennifer N.
RESEDA
CLEVELAND H. S. 000 Cohen, Sofia J. 000 Jee, Haesung 000 Joffe, Ian I. 999 Lee, Jason M.
RICHMOND
HOMESCHOOL 000 Hansen, Calder J.
RIVERSIDE
MARTIN LUTHER KING H. S. Locke, Jaden
200
LA SIERRA H. S. 000 Guan, John N.
ROCKLIN
WESTERN SIERRA COLLEGIATE ACADEMY 204 Young, Patrick J. WHITNEY H. S. 710 Chen, Keri
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA H. S. Ashai, Faris Bok, Serin M. Ekanayake, Kiran Guan, Michael Y. Johnson, Mei L. Jung, Brandon S. Kang, Jacob S. Kong, Lauren Y. Li, Brianna McGinn, Emily A. Mizumoto, Kyle L. Shirazian, Nima Tan, Albert H. Terada, Jennifer S. Wakefield-Carl, Robert E. Zafran, Eden M.
303 160 303 605 303 999 167 000 185 161 450 830 301 450 301 451
ROSEMEAD
DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 301 Maros, Joshua D. ROSEMEAD H. S. 999 Li, William Z.
ROSEVILLE
OAKMONT H. S. 628 Beevers, Andrew D. ROSEVILLE H. S. 161 Ang, Kaitlyn S.
ROSS
BRANSON SCHOOL 000 de Marcellus, Helene M. 000 Flynn, Sarah 000 Leane, Charlotte 000 Swart, Kate 000 Westley, Alexandra K.
ROWLAND HEIGHTS
JOHN A. ROWLAND H. S. Santoso, Milisuryani L. Vuong, Jett Wu, Qiu Ya
628 870 628
SACRAMENTO
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H. S. Clark, Turner C.
000
REDLANDS H. S. 302 Guo, Bryan L. 162 Ho, Emily
7
MIRA LOMA H. S. 450 Bahm, Dominik E.
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 792 457 451 836 461 559 160 999 450
Brown, Natalie S. Cai, Jessica S. Hargrove, Jack P. Liu, George G. Mathew, Milena Roberts, Jordan C. Satchi, Krishni Spiridonova, Mariya M. Venukanthan, Shayana A.
RIO AMERICANO H. S. Fortin, Marley M. Long, William W. Talcott, Gina M.
907 999 185
SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 161 Christian, Jack M. 171 Zhang, Allison ST. FRANCIS H. S. 628 Sutarjo, Catherine O.
SALINAS
EVERETT ALVAREZ H. S. Gordon, Noah R.
000
SAN ANSELMO
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE H. S. 830 Bruner, Cassidy L. SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL Kunze, Thomas
209
SAN CLEMENTE
SAN CLEMENTE H. S. Giacobello, Samuel P. Raghuraman, Savitri K.
451 160
SAN DIEGO
ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF PEACE 628 Paye, Sanjana CANYON CREST ACADEMY Agashe, Reva P. Atwood, John Baker, Mauricio Bao, Caroline Campbell, Connor C. Cao, Jennie J. Chan, Chloe Chang, Christine S. Chen, Michael Y. Cheng, Amy T. Cho, Alyssa Clifner, Benjamin N. Curcio, Ryan D. Deng, Grace Y. Elvins, Keaton N. Enriquez, Nicolas A. Ford, Tyler Gantla, Saikumar R. Gopala, Shreya N. Gresser, Emily B. Guduru, Soumika Guo, Clara Holmes, Martin S. Huang, Allen Huang, Luke W. Jiang, Orrin L. Juneja, Mitali Kim, Yoonjae King, Jasmine A. Kreymborg, Paul J. Kwon, Elizabeth H. Lanski, Kirill K. Lau, Gabriela Li, Dianna Li, Edward Li, Jessica Li, Victoria Lin, Emily A. Lin, William Liu, Samuel D. Liu, Sean K. Lu, Annie S. Luo, Julia Martin, Roxane A. Modjahedpour, Maia R. Park, Christine Park, Junseong Rehan, Aadil M.
164 907 720 164 301 628 160 417 303 722 000 830 946 000 000 455 000 160 454 162 214 459 171 000 204 999 000 302 164 843 628 904 000 627 000 999 000 162 301 000 459 000 904 301 000 970 302 999
000 999 209 000 999 999 999 743 302 628 628 301 999 303 907 999 303 000 000 000 628 000 454 999 999 000 821
Reidel, Laurel D. Ren, Jiawei Ren, Lucy C. Reza, Samiha Roy, Ronak Sambhwani, Shrey S. Situ, Julia Snigaroff, Robert A. Tan, Aidan Tao, Xavier Tsai, Matthew Tu, Allen Wang, Hannah V. Wang, Ryan P. Yan, Annila M. Yan, Larry K. Yan, Ruoya Yang, Julia P. Zeng, Tygan J. Zhang, Meilong M. Zhang, Nathan F. Zheng, Adam Zheng, Jinshi Zhu, Alan C. Zhu, Andy Y. Zhu, Samantha Zorrilla, Natalia C.
ST. AUGUSTINE H. S. Leach, Benjamin J.
000
TORREY PINES H. S. Brownlee, Shannon M. Chen, Nathaniel Chen, Sophia W. Chung, Stella G. Huo, Michael Q. Liu, Angela J. Mao, Nina L. Plewe, Gabrielle O. Rao, Ananth M. Struble, Helen A. Vapnek, David M. Wang, Joanne Wythes, George T.
URBAN SCHOOL 000 Salomon-Jacob, Kaleil S. 000 Singer, Ezekiel 000 Vahanvaty, Sophia M.
454 999 162 000 301 791 160 169 999 454 741 160 160
UNIVERSITY CITY H. S. Meader, Ashley E.
999
WESTVIEW H. S. 000 Alawani, Aniruddhag A. 000 Bhattacharya, Uposhanto 000 Bu, Amy 303 Chen, Kevin S. 999 Chin, Nicholas 000 Dyer, Riley J. 628 He, Mingda 000 Huang, Tina L. 000 Khanwale, Aniruddh P. 303 Lam, Jessica 000 Lu, Cameron R. 000 Ma, Clair 999 Nguyen, Khanh 160 Phuong, Ethan Y. 455 Qiang, Si Min 000 Schlusselberg, Rachel A. 451 Song, Yang 628 Tong, Jacqueline C. 000 Wang, Su-Yue A. 303 Zhu, David S. 000 Zhu, Richard S.
CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC H. S. Sprigg, Dominic F.
904
DEL NORTE H. S. 303 Arora, Akul 303 Arunkumar, Kaushik 999 Chan, Wynnie 303 Chari, Shrea A. 999 Chaudhary, Yaman 741 Chen, Angela J. 250 Chen, Danica 300 Cruse, Kevin 454 Junaidi, Christabelle V. 999 Krishnamoorthy, Vinod 303 Liu, Johnny R. 185 Sood, Divya 303 Steinberg, Jesse I. 457 Sudarshan, Aruna 628 Tu, Michael Z. 999 Verma, Shruti 303 Wei, Ryan K. 950 Zhu, Katherine Y.
SAN DIMAS
SAN DIMAS H. S. 303 Stowitts, Amita J.
SAN FRANCISCO
RUTH ASAWA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 712 Henderson, Cicely M.
PATRICK HENRY H. S. 742 Kosic, Sarah N. 450 Rozenshteyn, Maya A.
LICK - WILMERDING H. S. Bergson-Michelson, Tuvya B. Corea Diaz, Abraham I. DiSabato, Sophia M. Harris, Nicholas G. Sivolella, Alix B.
907 999 999 166 999
HOMESCHOOL 467 Godden, Thomas J. MIRA MESA H. S. 743 Welsh, Isabelle B.
LOWELL H. S. 450 Blenkinsop, Emma 999 Chen, Kristen 999 Chen, Zhenming 303 Dudley, Carson W. 185 Finn, Zinnia S. 603 Greenhill, Charlotte 160 Johnstone, Beck R. 905 Lawrence, Ian A. 559 Lee, Mabel G. 791 Nguy, Henry M. 940 Wu, Andy 854 Zhang, Arthur
MOUNT CARMEL H. S. Leslie, Rachel L.
161
FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL Brown, Andrew J. Chaplin, Cleo E. Kedrosky, Davis P. Kumar, Sahana P. Nussbaum, Adam Y. Tchang, Alexander P. Weisenfeld, Emme
520 628 999 454 700 250 999
POINT LOMA H. S. 300 Kuhn, Michael A. 904 Page, Clara
PROOF SCHOOL 741 Cooper, Tristan Y. 000 Naik, Nandita S. 301 Sun, Lili E.
RANCHO BERNARDO H. S. Kumar, Shubham Liu, Angela Orr, Zachary A. Timmerman, Eric Zublin, Cassidy M.
000 218 161 302 000
SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY 000 Blelloch, Jessica B. 000 dePenaloza, Jack K. 000 Dobson, Sawyer 302 Jew, Nathaniel K. 000 McCormack, Oisin 920 Streicker-Hirt, Eli A.
SCRIPPS RANCH H. S. Banister, Rachel L. Donahue, Shane P. Dutta, Joydeep He, Michelle J. Hui, Jackwin K. Kim, Sean Kumar, Ashwin Li, Ericka M. Smith, Sara J. Tan, Ethan Vanny, Nicholas R. Zeng, Yiwei
550 303 160 628 999 907 999 999 454 999 999 940
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY H. S. Boyd, Lily B. Chang, William F. Della Cava, Nicholas C. Hobart, Nicholas E. Lim, Emilia Tao, Micherice S. Villasenor, Maya Claire B.
833 302 843 999 160 185 500
8
SAN FRANCISCO WALDORF H. S. Dreilinger, Flynn R.
467
SAN GABRIEL
GABRIELINO H. S. 171 Pondevida, Carlos M. 600 Quach, Kevin
SAN JOSE
BASIS INDEPENDENT SILICON VALLEY 999 Baik, Brandon 303 Bhateja, Chethan A. 185 Bhateja, Jaydev N. 712 Feng, Ethan Y. 160 Ghai, Jasleen 301 Goranov, Mario G. 999 Gupta, Shiven 455 Ilkbahar, Kayra B. 303 Jain, Sahil 300 Jayaprakash, Nikhita 161 Jiang, Edrea Y. 209 Kapadia, Aniket P. 999 Lin, Ray 628 Mathur, Samrit 301 Prakash, Eva I. 164 Sadhwani, Simran 170 Seys, Alexander B. 000 Tsai, Lori M. 999 Wadekar, Abhiraam M. 450 Woo, Dennis 720 Yang, Krystal J. 161 Zhou, Beryl 502 Zhou, Jennifer S.
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY 303 Balakrishnan, Rishi 303 Ciby, Telvin T. 218 Clark, Samuel N. 204 Gaur, Shubhankar 742 Gottlieb, Kevin R. 742 Hom, Christopher M. 999 Kim, Daniel S. 451 Manja, Gautama S. 300 Menezes, Rishabh P. 451 Oh, Kevin J. 628 Phong, Jason K. 712 Pillai, Ashwin S. 908 Remmel, Ryan S. 742 Rengarajan, Abhishek 628 Sommerer, Samuel 303 Talur, Nihal 200 Tan, Kenneth W. 300 Tjanaka, Dylon M. 303 Tsai, Austin C. 303 Vergho, Tyler K. 843 Wong, Matthew K. 999 Yeddula, Rishab 300 Zhang, Lewis F. EVERGREEN VALLEY H. S. Duggirala, Niharika Gu, William C. Guo, Matthew Kamath, Anirudh K. Karumuri, Saketh J. Kumarappan, Manasa Le, Dan Le, Tuan M. Ma, Victor Naphade, Sonali Nguy, Jonathan Raja, Neel R. Sharma, Saarthak Su, Jocelin Tran, Tommy V. Vempati, Abhinav K.
999 200 501 999 301 900 450 999 628 999 999 500 303 999 303 000
THE HARKER SCHOOL Alag, Ayush Ayyar, Nishka Bhamidipaty, Logan M. Bloomquist, Robert J. Broweleit, Joshua A. Chang, Timothy Chen, Christie Duke, Pamela M. Franz, Kai H. Gonzales, Lilia K. Guan, Rose R. Hajjar, Matthew R.
999 000 555 303 000 461 999 999 999 999 999 999
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 907 904 161 300 303 209 999 303 164 300 870 300 457 500 999 999 303 999 301 000 628 303 161 301 999 164 904 200 999 999 999
Hosseini, Haris Huchley, Amelia Z. Kapadia, Krish B. Kim, Jacob J. Lincke, Noah S. Lu, Enya C. Lu, Leon Manning, Joel A. Menon, Jay R. Nayyar, Puneet S. Nowatzyk, Cedric T. Panchapakesan, Rithvik Pancholy, Ayush M. Peng, Jerry Z. Phalke, Meghna Rajamani, Anika V. Rammohan, Ashwin R. Ravoor, Akshay Reddy, Ashwi D. Sayana, Ruhi Shah, Keval A. Shivakumar, Kaushik Tallapragada, Neha Tian, Katherine Wang, Timothy J. Wloka, Alexander E. Xu, Connie L. Yang, Helen Young, Alexander Yu, Alexander Zhang, Katherine F.
LEIGH H. S. 218 Han, David F. 454 Hong, Christopher J. 450 Jack, Tanner T. 300 Jeong, Ik Su 999 Lee, Jisu 999 Ryu, Jina 999 Siahaan, Sarianna M. LELAND H. S. 301 Battula, Rohan C. 906 Bhavanasi, Advaitha S. 301 Choi, Soohyun 166 Desai, Aryan M. 185 Garimella, Bhargavi 742 He, Edward S. 999 Huang, Elaine 712 Huang, Michelle 200 Jang, Jessica Y. 467 Juthani, Vasav K. 300 Kim, Jeff 302 Koonantavida, Rahul 160 Lee, Hannah 160 Li, Allison 741 Li, Yingnan A. 456 Lin, Jerry 600 Park, Edward 870 Ta, Megan V. 948 Zhou, Cynthia D. LYNBROOK H. S. 000 Chiu, Ian S. 000 Dhanda, Uday 000 Ding, Shannon 160 Fatehpuria, Anusha 000 Hasan, Mihir 000 Hwu, Catherine 302 Kim, Jong Ho 000 Kumar, Meghana 000 Li, Selina 000 Lillemark, Hansen J. 000 Liu, Jeff Z. 300 Lum, Michelle 000 Mao, Michael 000 Mohidekar, Shreyas A. 000 Pu, Leslie 000 Sinha, Mahima 000 Tai, Ian T. 000 Tian, Tiffany 000 Wang, Garret 000 Wang, Stanley 000 Wu, Alicia T. 000 Xu, Adam J. 000 Zhang, Emily 000 Zhang, Nathan ARCHBISHOP MITTY H. S. Abdulvahid, Rishab K. Choi, Ethan Gupta, Eshan Jain, Alyssa N.
302 450 772 900
461 164 160 457 990 999 185 300 453 204 712 170
John Peter, Jubal J. Karani, Trisha Kim, Selina Li, Brian Otala, Tiina A. Prince, Jennifer Raman, Maya K. Shaikh, Nabeel A. Singh, Lakhan Sun, Timon J. Vamshidhar, Vedant A. Varma, Roshni
559 843
Katson, Aidan L. Schluederberg, Quinton A.
SAN MARINO
SAN MARINO H. S. 160 Chao, Benjamin S. 628 Chen, Sean W. 520 Judge, Juliana 900 Liu, Vincent 999 McDonald, Patrick 821 Sun, Ashley 999 Yim, Jacob A. 773 Yong, Aston
NOTRE DAME H. S. 200 Chung, Cynthia V. 303 Kabir, Anisha 160 Madireddy, Sahithi 162 Wallace, Cassidy R.
SAN MATEO
ARAGON H. S. 302 Liu, Albert Y. 628 Liu, Connie Y. 166 Nanda, Ajitesh 218 Tripathi, Anisha 450 Wong, Alexander J. 303 Zhang, Anna Y.
PIEDMONT HILLS H. S. 218 Liu, Emily S. 303 Ouyang, Anne 000 Shah, Aayushi 000 Son, Perry L. 741 Xiao, Sophia
HILLSDALE H. S. 459 Lewin-Koh, Elias O. 999 Lin, Charles J. 940 Sang, Rachel 450 Zhang, Eilleen
PRESENTATION H. S. Rubinchik, Evelyn Ta, Regina
628 628
THE NUEVA SCHOOL Alfonsi, Peter G. Chin, Audrey Y. Cullen-Baratloo, Shaheen Dittmar, Caleb M. Johnson, Arun S. Knight, Ethan H. Lerner, Osher McGraw, Kyle A. Mills, Cooper S. Sze, Aidan M. Taylor, Jaden G. Yan, Alex
SANTA TERESA H. S. 450 Gonugunta, Isha
830 160 773 171 000 900 000 999 000 200 000 204
SILVER CREEK H. S. Jones, Dean C. Khoo, Desiree H. To, Anthony P.
301 999 628
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 218 Chintala, Meghana 999 Kamm, Thomas G. 450 Lin, Scott J. 450 Tran, Rowan-James
SAN MATEO H. S. 161 Lo, Carina 000 Tennenhouse, Ilan 742 Yin, Patrick 301 Zhang, Kyle Z.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. 628 Baktha, Anisha 904 Basarkar, Rhea 204 Bellary, Sandhya 300 Dai, Matthew 303 Ho, Dave C. 454 Hsin, Sydney E. 000 Liang, Janise J. 160 Lin, Aaron J. 303 Mac, Anthony 303 Ngai, Nicholas 999 Rao, Tejas R. 303 Su, Gordon S. 940 Xue, Jonathan
SAN RAFAEL
MARIN ACADEMY 940 Hasson, Kathryn D. 904 Pawlak, Christopher J. 836 Warner, Jack T.
TERRA LINDA H. S. 300 Qiu, Anna
SAN RAMON
CALIFORNIA H. S. 000 Anand, Pranav 000 Bi, Shirley Z. 000 Deo, Prachi S. 000 Gupta, Kush M.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO SAN JUAN HILLS H. S. Lin, Kobe N.
000
ST. MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 000 Colglazier, Matthew R. 000 Kinsey, Grant P. 000 Weston, Anne E. 000 Yee, Natalie E.
DOUGHERTY VALLEY H. S. Bhakat, Tanaya Boutaleb, Mohamed Chen, Andy Deng, Connie T. Ganesan, Gayathri Ganesh, Vishruti Gomes, Ryan A. Hassan, Sasha V. Hu, Anson R. Hung, Bella Khau, Jeffrey Kim, Bryan Kim, Sherri Kwun, Shinwho Lai, Carolyn Lee, Jason J. Li, Alan H. Li, Cindy Y. Li, Kelly Liu, Ryan R. Lu, Michael Maitra, Divija Mantramurti, Pranay J. Mittal, Shreysi Murali, Ashwini Nachuri, Srisai Nanda, Ansh Potdar, Yash M. Rajesh, Singaravelavan Rosenzweig, Alyssa A. Sharma, Hemakshat
628 302 999 214 450 741 301 160 303 999 999 455 999 619 161 300 185 160 300 164 214 160 450 204 185 303 303 302 204 773 160
SAN LEANDRO
SAN LEANDRO H. S. Lam, Lee D.
161
SAN LUIS OBISPO
MISSION COLLEGE PREPARATORY CATHOLIC H. S. 628 Reilly, Charles
SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY H. S. 300 Jussila, Karl A. 999 Vatsa, Kanishka P. SAN LUIS OBISPO H. S. Lemieux, Eric C.
451
SAN MARCOS
HIGH TECH HIGH NORTH COUNTY 451 Jennings, Connor F. 300 Jennings, Nicholas J. SAN MARCOS H. S. 999 Bartels, Madeline F.
9
870 450 999 160 628 000 907 302 999 999 161 628 200
Sim, Caitlin H. Somala, Siddharth R. Sood, Ruchi Steffkova, Martina B. Tallapaneni, Pooja S. Vadrevu, Abhijit Valia, Ashna Wang, Benita Wang, Jeremy S. Yang, Amanda Zhang, Alvin J. Zhang, Joy Zhang, Max Y.
HOMESCHOOL 300 Yu, Megan Y.
SANTA ANA
FOOTHILL H. S. 200 Ortmayer, William R. MATER DEI H. S. 712 Bates, Tyler G. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 740 Chang, Katherine 461 Hughes, Christopher 723 Kim, Ashley G. 160 Tian, Connie J. 160 Wang, Julia M. 185 Wood, Emma M.
SANTA BARBARA
LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL Stein, Jack P. Stone, Julia L.
946 906
SANTA BARBARA H. S. Brewer, Claudia I. Lofvander, Susanna M. Mullen, Frances L.
160 830 940
SANTA CLARA
ADRIAN C. WILCOX H. S. Dickson, Brendan S. Dong, Claire
999 303
SANTA CLARITA
ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS De Guzman, Miguel C.
454
SANTA CRUZ
SANTA CRUZ H. S. 160 Bates, Gabriella 999 Greene, Lillian R. 999 Snook, Christopher B.
SANTA MONICA
CROSSROADS SCHOOL Hammond, Maxwell L.
000
NEW ROADS SCHOOL Segovia, Bruno J.
459
PACIFICA CHRISTIAN H. S. Ellis, Timothy J.
450
SANTA MONICA H. S. Arnold, Zachary A. Nobahar, Nami Wickline, Joseph H.
740 628 710
SANTA ROSA
MARIA CARRILLO H. S. Haraszti, Alexandra J. Luvishis, Eden L. Pillai, Vishnu R.
000 000 000
SANTA ROSA H. S. 000 Lin, Anwen 000 Zechowy, Mia P.
SARATOGA
SARATOGA H. S. 301 Adunuthula, Nirav 300 Chen, Victor G. 870 Chu, Francesca L. 999 Fan, Elaine Y. 999 Garg, Ankur 843 Hong, Jamie 160 Ko, Ethan Y. 450 Li, Alexandra S. 160 Lim, Thomas 520 Liu, Victor Z. 450 Luk, Nathan C. 185 Ma, Carolyn
Semifinalists: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 302 999 628 303 400 999 740 456 455 710 742 791 999
Munukutla, Sirisha Rachamallu, Kiran Rachepalli, Yashwanth N. Raje, Arian S. Ruemmler, Alex K. Smith, Blake Sun, Justin W. Tang, Amy Q. Vasudeva, Tanuj Wang, Merrick Wu, Catherine W. Xu, Annie Zhang, Michael S.
SHERMAN OAKS
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL Cantz, Dylan S. Tausik, Nathan A.
901 300
NOTRE DAME H. S. 466 Roy, Gillian M.
SIMI VALLEY
ROYAL H. S. 450 Quintana, Daniel J. SANTA SUSANA H. S. Gupta, Rishab N. Pillai, Arjun P.
836 628
SIMI VALLEY H. S. 000 Arumugam, Haridhana 000 Lim, Angelina E.
SOLANA BEACH
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Kikkawa, Jason T. Simonsen, Samantha A.
466 907
SOUTH PASADENA
SOUTH PASADENA H. S. 901 Cheung, Miranda 742 Dettman, Kai N. 454 Kuwahara, Lindsey K. 950 Manzo, Jake 303 Whetsel, Maylis H. 742 Wu, Yilin
STOCKTON
MIDDLE COLLEGE H. S. 457 Ahuja, Abhik VALLEY VIEW CHARTER PREP Adkison, Tyler C.
000
STUDIO CITY
HARVARD - WESTLAKE SCHOOL Beckman, Benjamin S. Brindze, Shana Buckley-Bonanno, Samuel Caragozian, Max A. Chang, Megan L. Chaudhary, Vishan Cheng, Taia Gourrier, Kelly N. Janos, William D. Kahn, Alexander Kangaslahti, Sara A. Kaufman, Tierni A. Kim, Lucy Le, Toshan K. Le, Trevor K. Park, Yujung P. Pizer, Sydney R. Ross, Clara O. Roussak, Sophie A. Sastry, Meera Smith, Nicole J. So, Alexandra R. Sykes, Peter W. Wesel, Emily E. Whitley, Sorcha A. Wixen, Ryan M. Yoon, Jenny J.
950 940 843 160 836 999 553 904 904 904 303 740 999 836 451 450 209 832 000 000 628 162 950 455 830 459 710
SUNNYVALE
FREMONT H. S. 300 Brosnahan, Kellen M. 741 Shemy, Gahl 162 Yu, Dottie
THE KING'S ACADEMY Bergstedt, Kyle J. Zhou, Alex H.
270 455 741 870 628 712 162 123 628 202
455 999
TEMECULA
CHAPARRAL H. S. 303 Winn, Victoria M.
GREAT OAK H. S. 160 Nevens, Noah P.
Lo, Amy F. Song, Dylan T. Wang, Jordin Wang, Justin Yang, Christopher Yee, Michelle Yeh, Tiffany Young, Brandon Zhang, Alice Zhu, Angela A.
WALNUT CREEK
TEMPLE CITY
LAS LOMAS H. S. 843 Bear, Soren J. 870 Butcher, Isabella C. 303 Holland, Grant W. 300 Vallabhaneni, Harirajanya
TEMPLE CITY H. S. 162 Lu, Cathy 160 Sun, Austin
THOUSAND OAKS
THOUSAND OAKS H. S. Bersley, Ethan J.
NORTHGATE H. S. 204 Van Uden, Adam M.
160
TORRANCE
WEST COVINA
BISHOP MONTGOMERY H. S. Craig, Matthew A.
SOUTH HILLS H. S. 000 Hiraishi, Kristina M.
301
SOUTH H. S. 628 Chen, Ashley 450 Gloyer, Emma Le 161 Lee, Alice H. 302 Shen, Jeffrey 162 Sun, Yifei
WEST HILLS
CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 628 Alnajjar, Hiba S. 454 Batra, Anupam 451 Oswald, John M.
WEST H. S. 999 Dai, Annie 450 Kanuparti, Ritvik S. 629 Kim, Il Joon 999 Lee, Anna F. 302 Lee, Matthew Y. 451 Mohnot, Pranit 166 Shah, Siya N. 000 Sonandres, Kyle A.
HOMESCHOOL 628 Graening, Travis O.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
WESTLAKE H. S. 160 Boompally, Himani R. 000 Ju, Amanda J. 000 Kim, Elliot D. 791 Leung, Courtney J. 999 Li, Aaron Y. 522 Pender, Caelyn E. 160 Savner, Monique 455 Shi, Constance K. 700 Wu, Milla 455 Xiao, Bryan 791 Xu, Matthew 454 Zhang, Ruidong
TRACY
MILLENNIUM H. S. 302 Galvez, Ian C. TRACY JOINT UNION H. S. Chen, Claire Tran, Nathaniel K.
450 883
TRUCKEE
WESTMINSTER
TAHOE TRUCKEE H. S. Williams, Jace M.
LA QUINTA H. S. 302 Pham, Jennifer P.
467
UNION CITY
WOODLAND HILLS
JAMES LOGAN H. S. 454 Sekar, Janani 200 Yi, Grace
EL CAMINO REAL CHARTER H. S. Huang, Jocelyn C. Markenson, Rachel M.
254 999
VALENCIA
WOODSIDE
VALENCIA H. S. 832 Dandu, Srujan 836 Li, Chretien
WOODSIDE H. S. 461 Hadidi, Alex E. 830 Pratt, Veronica 303 Ramsey, Clayton W.
WEST RANCH H. S. 164 Kim, Emmalyn D. 303 Ordog, Mackenzie A. 303 Park, Jaesung 605 Sakharkar, Mitali R.
YORBA LINDA
YORBA LINDA H. S. 836 Hakkinen, Aino E. 000 Han, Blake 162 Seo, Isaiah T. 162 Song, Andrew J.
VAN NUYS
ULYSSES S. GRANT H. S. Schwarz, Isaiah N.
904
YUBA CITY
RIVER VALLEY H. S. 836 Jarvis, Joanna R.
VAN NUYS H. S. 185 Chernyak, Diana Z. 000 Kwak, Christina
VENTURA
ST. BONAVENTURE H. S. Nelson, Aaron A.
467
VILLA PARK
VILLA PARK H. S. 740 Deters, Emma K.
VISALIA
REDWOOD H. S. 451 Ide, William D.
WALNUT
WALNUT H. S. 712 Cao, Angela 999 Chang, Jeremy 160 Chen, Ashley 185 Jin, Flora 459 Liu, Karen
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