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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2016 NATIONAL NA TIONAL MERIT ME RIT® SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM September 9, 2015 Announcement Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Public Information
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Advance: For release on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Note to editors: Semifinalists in 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.
Caution: Using numbers of Semi finalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or states will result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit ® Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within a school, system, or state. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSC ’s ’s website at www.nationalmerit.org.
Semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit ® Scholarship Program (Evanston, Illinois) Today of ficials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation ( NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,400 7 ,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 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. About 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, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was
established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 440 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
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Steps in the 2016 Competition
About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2014 Preliminary SA SAT T/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/ NMSQT o f program entrants. The nationwide pool NMSQT ®), which served as an initial screen of 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’ state’ss 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’ nalist’ss academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school of ficial, write an essay, and earn SAT SA T ® 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 they will be notified of this designation. de signation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar de signees 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 2016. 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 250 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or of fices are located. In addition, about 190 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 3,900 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2016 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding conclud ing in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 315,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title. #
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Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
999 999 185 999
Marish Roehr, Eden Pollack, Leo W. Shen, Maya Y. Williams, Gavin T.
BEVERLY HILLS
CALIFORNIA AGOURA HILLS
AGOURA H. S. 999 Nosrat, Cameron 450 Pattiz, Joshua T.
ALAMEDA
ALAMEDA COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER 302 Zhu, Henry ALAMEDA H. S. 999 Lee, Taylor S. 628 Peng, Lucy Z. CHINESE CHRISTIAN H. S. Leong, Samantha R.
999
ENCINAL H. S. 999 Brodnitz, Susannah K.
ALBANY
ALBANY H. S. 999 Atlas, James A. 999 Li, Alyssa C. 843 Sahoo, Nikhil H.
ALHAMBRA
ALHAMBRA H. S. 161 Chan, Andy
MARK KEPPEL H. S. 162 Chen, Enqi 162 Lao, Jourdyn 168 Li, YingJoy 629 Pham, Andrew M. 457 Shimada, Grant G. 303 Siswanto, Arlene E. 712 Yeo, Brian L.
ALISO VIEJO
ALISO NIGUEL H. S. 461 Donahue, Patrick M. 209 Hu, Gordon G. 467 Kim, Elijah J. 741 Lao, Miranda M. 628 Lee, Christie J. 171 Prusty, Nicole D.
ANAHEIM
CANYON H. S. 999 Bui, Lyndon C. 999 Cunningham, Sophia M. 907 Gweon, August 710 Khan, Akif U. 169 Kim, Jonathan J. 771 Le, Joshua H. 830 Pitzer, Joel T.
FAIRMONT PREPARATORY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 628 Gulati, Anjalie 450 Hsu, Claire C. 164 Phan, Michelle C. 450 Venkatesh, Varun P.
ANTIOCH
DOZIER - LIBBEY MEDICAL H. S. 160 Tangsombatvisit, Christina P.
ARCADIA
ARCADIA H. S. 628 Chang, Janice 999 Chou, Brendon C. 000 Gu, Michelle 741 Jen, Joshua 166 Lee, Hanah 722 Li, Emma X. 999 Li, Victor J. 999 Ro, Annie Y. 200 Song, Sharlene 303 Sun, Henry K. 470 Tan, Calvin J. 999 Wang, Christopher K. 710 Wang, Fred
455 832
BEVERLY HILLS H. S. Ahdout, Shawn Lee, Dong Won Yoo, Seo Yeon
907 500 160
Wong, Lindsey K. Zhou, Angelica
BURBANK
ARCATA
BURBANK H. S. 457 Kim, Roy T.
ARCATA H. S. 950 Reiss, Owen M. 450 Robins, Canyon C.
CALABASAS
VIEWPOINT SCHOOL 999 Emi, Lindsay L. 454 Hogan, Caitlin E.
ATHERTON
MENLO - ATHERTON H. S. Bailard, Julie A. Baxter, Molly E. Beasley, Jack E. Conrad, Kevin Freeman, Thatcher Friedman, Alexander Jiang, Kevin Kenney, Matthew Killmond, Teresa E. Love, Kasey S. Milanfar, Leila C. Propp, Jeffrey S. Zalipsky, Talya
999 522 303 999 303 999 999 522 520 160 160 999 999
CAMARILLO
ADOLFO CAMARILLO H. S. Chhang, Jonathan M. Jeffers, Brian D. Raymond, Brian D. Shim, Amy Y.
162 160 300 999
CAMPBELL
WESTMONT H. S. 999 Cha, Hesoo 450 Sarwari, Khalil R. 461 Song, William
MENLO SCHOOL 302 Arnold, Andrew 209 Campbell, Joshua S. 161 Enright, Zoe 628 Kim, Annie 999 McGraw, Tyler A. 522 Mirchandaney, Riya 843 Narayan, Parvathi 712 Parker, Andrew C. 303 Reinstra, John M. 300 Rong, Jessie 461 Santos, Kylee T. 970 Shih, Shannon 999 Stevens, Scott R.
CANOGA PARK
A. G. B. U. MANOOGIAN DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL 999 Nazarian, Haroutun
CARLSBAD
CARLSBAD H. S. 185 Cisternas, Fiona E. 162 Kao, Andy 451 Krupnak, Michael A. 999 Ramesh, Samiksha 843 She, Michelle S. 999 Weng, Erica X. LA COSTA CANYON H. S. Chen, Michael H. Li, Jonathon
SACRED HEART PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 700 Ullah, Karim E. 999 Villeneuve, Anthony J.
836 999
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL Fan, Juliana Lochan, Tyler Oliverio, Anthony E. Wang, Vincent
000 000 000 000
BAKERSFIELD
BAKERSFIELD H. S. 999 Chang, Hannah Y. STOCKDALE H. S. 185 Gupta, Shivani 999 Patel, Manooshree R. 160 Xu, Bethany J.
CARMEL
CARMEL H. S. 742 Freedman, Ari
CARPINTERIA
BELLFLOWER
CATE SCHOOL 161 Kim, Jonathan J. 946 Liou, Jessica B. 999 Pak, Jason H.
ST. JOHN BOSCO H. S. 999 Silver, Kellen F.
BELMONT
CARLMONT H. S. 999 Armstrong, Rebecca 999 Burger, Jason M. 999 Jiang, May 999 Li, Alice L. 629 Liu, Kelly 450 Nadan, Paul M. 185 Nguyen, Ivy H. 160 Paul, Adhayana 999 Romani, Clara E. 773 Stafford, Adam F. 450 Tang, Austin 629 Tang, Belicia N. 501 Triest, Samuel 000 Trost, Matthew D. 300 Vendrow, David G. 999 Yeh, Allison J.
CARSON
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 457 Cao, Eric 457 Cen, Lujing 164 Choe, Brandon J. 457 Nebres, Erin R.
CASTRO VALLEY
CASTRO VALLEY H. S. Cho, Samuel Guo, Andrew Sabbah, Akram Y. Zhu, Luke L.
999 836 999 450
CERRITOS
CERRITOS H. S. 520 Gao, Vincent 454 Hwang, Gino 843 Shih, Joseph C. 162 Wee, Shirline H. 169 Xu, Cao 999 Yin, Sarah C.
BENICIA
BENICIA H. S. 999 Jewik, Matthew P.
BERKELEY
BERKELEY H. S. 904 Frye, Kyra S. 940 Hendrikse Liu, Anja 999 Hudson, Joseph K. 833 Hurley, William C. 461 Jutamulia, Ivan C. 450 Katz-Balmes, Max J.
WHITNEY H. S. 990 Bisht, Chirag 303 Chen, Andrew 501 Gong, Jonathan 999 Hur, Christina Y.
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833 999 628 204 870 454 450 712 628
Jain, Ishaan C. Jun, Andrew B. Kim, Christine Y. Ku, Katherine C. Lee, Frances H. Lee, Skylar Y. Lin, Jonathan Luong, Kristine Vo, Nathan N.
CHATSWORTH
SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL Schmerling, Chad M.
000
CHINO HILLS
RUBEN S. AYALA H. S. De Armas, Makenzie L. Lee, Benjamin C. Panigrahi, Dilasha President, Miles C.
943 600 204 456
CHINO HILLS H. S. 185 Kurup, Trisha 999 Li, Katelyn D. 450 Lo, Brian T.
CHULA VISTA
BONITA VISTA H. S. 160 Kunz, Emily R.
CLAREMONT
CLAREMONT H. S. 999 Chao, Diana 628 Landman, Tamar 773 Tanenbaum, Robin R. VIVIAN WEBB SCHOOL Newman, Laurel A. Nie, Bonnee
999 999
CLOVIS
FLOYD B. BUCHANAN H. S. Kennedy, Samuel J.
559
CLOVIS H. S. 467 Manghera, Patrick J.
CONCORD
CLAYTON VALLEY H. S. Li, Robert M.
999
DE LA SALLE H. S. 200 Armistead, Cannon M.
CORONA
CENTENNIAL H. S. 628 Essien, Michelle A. 628 Lin, Claire J. 628 Saretha, Shrey 742 Tramontano, Jared A. 742 Young, Kalista E.
CORONADO
CORONADO H. S. 722 Dorow, Reagan M.
CROCKETT
JOHN SWETT H. S. 742 Mahannah, Sage N.
CULVER CITY
CULVER CITY H. S. 450 Goswamy, Srishti 467 Hesseling, Maarten J. 700 Perry, Kathryn A. 999 Vlahakis, Niko W.
CUPERTINO
CUPERTINO H. S. 600 Betini, Niteesha 457 Chou, William W. 999 Fu, Irene 300 Lee, Darren K. 999 Liau, Chloe 600 Lin, Isabel Y. 303 Lin, Tony V. 999 Liu, Andrew 185 Liu, Zi-Chen K. 302 Lu, Christina T. 303 Sam, Maria 457 Satish, Vishal 455 Shahani, Ekta 162 Shen, Ethan 740 Shi, Stephanie Y. 160 Shukla, Niharika 204 Subra, Janany S.
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 302 999 303 501 999 629 999 160
Thakkar, Kedar H. Woo, Soohan Wu, Allan L. Yang, Kevin H. Yeh, Lia Yoo, Ihna Yu, Nanqiao Zhong, Brian J.
HOMESTEAD H. S. 630 Bhaisaheb, Asiya A. 999 Cai, Emily Y. 000 Chen, Brandon L. 999 Chen, Jessica 940 Cheng, Audrey T. 999 Chou, Clementine G. 303 Du, Joshua H. 830 Farinas, Amelia J. 740 Guo, Daniel 830 Hou, Andrew 303 Hsu, Shangyu L. 628 Kim, Samuel H. 833 Lan, Kevin 454 Louie, Darica E. 160 Raghavan, Varsha G. 303 Sampath, Aditya D. 870 Siu, Beverly A. 628 Thurm, Abby R. 303 Venkatraman, Amrita 999 Wang, Angela 740 Yang, Adela Y. 628 Zhang, Michelle 300 Zhou, Raymond MONTA VISTA H. S. 628 Abidi, Alina F. 628 Agarwal, Priyanka 166 Allegakoen, Hannah R. 161 Boddu, Sayi 999 Chen, Adelaide B. 160 Chen, Jeremy 302 Chien, Ashley 303 Chien, Tiffany 606 Cho, Julia H. 500 Chuang, Rebecca 162 Chung, Katherine Y. 451 Datar, Adhiraj S. 999 Ding, Andrew 999 Ding, Michael H. 185 Douhan, Nikita 302 Evans, Allana A. 000 Gandhi, Nupoor M. 999 Gomatam, Kirthi R. 303 Gopalakrishnan, Anindit 742 Gupta, Meghal 894 Hajela, Sunaina 999 Hsiung, Joseph 999 Hsu, Eliot J. 303 Jain, Ajay 160 Joshi, Oshin S. 999 Ju, Isabelle 185 Kannan, Sandhya 740 Karthik, Vaishnavi 710 Kim, Hyun Moo 999 Koganti, Ashika K. 161 Kwang, Alexa C. 200 Lee, Ji Hune 303 Li, Ming Yuan 628 Li, William Z. 628 Liu, Julianna 303 Liu, Lawrence 722 Liu, Melodie 209 Lo, James E. 200 Mikayelyan, Nare 160 Murthy, Sanjana 303 Patel, Abhinav R. 254 Ramaiyer, Malini S. 000 Rosenthal, Alan M. 999 Sangari, Ayush 999 Sheng, Eric 466 Suryadevara, Uttam 303 Tu, Karen Y. 457 Wang, Michelle G. 999 Wu, Nanette 999 Yip, Madeleine 200 Yu, Shannon 999 Zeng, Albert S. 300 Zhang, Jeffrey 821 Zhang, Sebastian J. 999 Zheng, Sidai 300 Zhukov, Daniil 999 Zou, Isabel X.
CYPRESS
710 160
CYPRESS H. S. 999 Pham, Crystal 700 Robles, River R. 160 Yoo, Daeun
Yang, Claire Zhang, Adele D.
HOMESCHOOL 999 Tran, Jeremy R.
DUBLIN
HOMESCHOOL 870 Rah, Philip
DUBLIN H. S. 999 Han, Kyunghwi 740 Jackson, Heather M. 214 Jiang, Deedee R. 628 Raja, Katherine M. 160 Sivakumaru, Nilla 160 Zhang, Jennifer Y. 771 Zhang, Lillian
OXFORD ACADEMY 948 Chung, Jenny J. 204 Hsu, Joy 628 Huynh, Emily 742 Kim, Kiwan 999 Kim, Seong J. 843 Lau, Sidney 999 Li, Robert 836 Nguyen, Caitlyn T. 160 Nguyen, Hoang-Lan K. 450 Park, Sean 103 Shin, Sara J. 209 Tang, Peter T. 450 Veys, Celine J. 712 Vo, Bryan T. 830 Zheng, Yunjing
VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. Wei, Jocelyn S.
450
EL CAJON
GRANITE HILLS H. S. Silva, Braxton R.
843
EL CENTRO
SOUTHWEST H. S. 303 Jeon, Kevin
WISDOM MISSION SCHOOL Suh, David
000
EL CERRITO
EL CERRITO H. S. 833 Gilbert-Snyder, Gwendolyn R.
DANA POINT
DANA HILLS H. S. 470 Aplin, Chase P. 990 Hou, Iris G. 466 Zhang, Jack T.
EL DORADO HILLS
OAK RIDGE H. S. 628 Jang, Chelsea 303 Kauffman, Kyle D. 999 Sharma, Mihir R.
DANVILLE
ATHENIAN SCHOOL 467 Brast-McKie, Emmet K. 459 Chuang, Kevin 459 Rideout, Adam M.
EL MONTE
ARROYO H. S. 743 Hake, Kurt W.
MONTE VISTA H. S. 450 Blank, Daniel A. 454 Cho, Claire 454 Elango, Keerthana 999 Ganeshan, Maya 303 Jain, Varun 900 Joo, Sehrang 200 Luo, Kevin P. 303 Olson, Ryan 200 Venkatesh, Sanjeev 303 Xie, Alex
ELK GROVE
COSUMNES OAKS H. S. Chang, Nancy
450
FRANKLIN H. S. 450 De Herrera, Stephen J. 628 Maran, Kajal LAGUNA CREEK H. S. Bean, Camille M.
454
PLEASANT GROVE H. S. Fan, Haibo
SAN RAMON VALLEY H. S. 999 Auman, Kevin R. 743 Harrison, Geoffrey H. 999 Pollak, Connor J. 904 Rao, Shilpa S.
999
ENCINITAS
SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY Lee, Shin Neumann, Nathan Page, Cortez V. Wang, Alice X.
999 999 303 200
DAVIS
DAVIS H. S. 450 Amesbury, Connor H. 254 Ault, Spencer D. 883 de Loera-Brust, Andres 522 DiCarlo, Anthony 455 Hu, Katherine 741 Knox, Edward B. 791 O'Keeffe, Fiona R. 830 Unger, Colin D. 843 Yamoah, Megan 628 Zhang, Hengrui 000 Zhang, Nicholas D.
ESCONDIDO
ESCONDIDO H. S. 630 Faulkner, Shaila L.
HOMESCHOOL 451 Fabel, Joshua SAN PASQUAL H. S. 999 Maxwell, Natalie R. 461 Triggs, Alexander M.
DIAMOND BAR
FAIR OAKS
DIAMOND BAR H. S. 160 Chang, Crystal 000 Chen, Eric T. 000 Du, Janet 999 Gu, Ran 771 Guo, Melody C. 162 Hsu, Charlene L. 999 Kau, Renee L. 000 Kim, Jung Hyun 946 Kim, Prince S. 000 Lee, Gloria 467 Lien, Felix 201 So, Letitia 940 Song, Angela 200 Song, Frances T. 999 Sun, Hsuan-Te 162 Sun, Jonathan 161 Wang, Kyle 161 Wang, Margaret 999 Wu, Ava Y. 520 Wu, Frances 450 Wu, Jennifer
BELLA VISTA H. S. 160 Fedorova, Yuliya
FAIRFIELD
ARMIJO H. S. 741 Nguyen, Liem A.
FEATHER FALLS
HOMESCHOOL 741 Hill, Spencer M.
FOLSOM
FOLSOM H. S. 628 Lin, Kelly A. 628 Lu, Ryan 450 Yang, Danny Z. VISTA DEL LAGO H. S. Belhouchat, Adam N. Wang, Huaning Waterman, Alison R.
455 970 454
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY
FOUNTAIN VALLEY H. S. Bhatt, Ritesh J. Bui, Maggie H. Le, Tyler N. Nguyen, Giaochi H. Nguyen, Kathyhan Nguyen, Vi D. Tang, Albert M. Tran, Bryan Vu, Alice
467 162 999 454 162 169 163 946 162
FREMONT
AMERICAN H. S. 628 Dhapa, Nasrin I. 999 Du, Allison X. 000 Guo, Yipeng 740 Kaul, Ishan 160 Kottilil, Kalyani 166 Malladi, Bhavya 303 Mukherjee, Sharnendu 459 Pingali, Vidya V. 303 Puri, Rishi 904 Raman, Sushanth 000 Sampath, Nitin R. 999 Silas, Akshatha 204 Tan, Michael 200 Tian, Alexander Y. 450 Vaidya, Aditi 303 Yin, Jihan 454 Yuan, Victoria 628 Zheng, Ashley W.
HOMESCHOOL 742 Ramchandran, Adarsh B. IRVINGTON H. S. 999 Bhesania, Joyaan P. 999 Chan, Matthew R. 450 Chen, Tigersunny 712 Du, Christina S. 628 Duan, Michelle J. 999 Feng, Dennis C. 999 Ho, Daniel 999 Huang, Janet 450 Kang, Jing-Wei 722 Kaushik, Aditya S. 455 Kwok, Steffi K. 457 Lee, Haewon 000 Lian, Thomas 459 Nguyen, Hannah T. 000 Peng, Julia 303 Prakash, Kevin 454 Rana, Hamza 999 Samdani, Shrey 185 Sawant, Shonushka T. 185 Senthil Kumar, Sailakshmi 200 Singhal, Vibhu 628 Suresh, Siddharth C. 160 Tan, Alan K. 999 Wang, Cathy 459 Wang, Justin W. 999 Wong, Weber W. JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S. Eaker, Allyn M.
000
MISSION SAN JOSE H. S. Asokan, Annapoorani Atluri, Adviti Bethamcharla, Raviteja Bharadwaj, Jayanth S. Bharathala, Karthik R. Burny, Ilhaam Cai, Melissa Chang, Jacinta M. Chawla, Prerika Chen, Andrew L. Chen, Anna Chen, Jamin G. Chen, Katherine K. Chen, Kevin H. Chen, Tiffany L. Cheng, Alice S. Chockkalingam, Shruthi N. Dong, Grace Gin, Ashley C. Goli, Srinath Gosti, Emily Gu, Joy A. Guan, Christina He, Yuguo Hong, Olivia L. Hong, Rebecca Z. Hsiu, Michael J. Hsu, Christine H. Hurria, Chakshu
628 628 185 302 300 990 204 211 160 303 160 999 628 450 870 999 466 250 999 999 000 999 302 906 999 908 160 999 712
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 166 450 454 722 999 501 720 303 999 833 450 999 600 302 303 160 185 628 303 160 300 741 162 161 160 830 164 161 999 999 720 461 457 303 999 200 204 999 160 200 970 999 943 999 200 628 303 790 790 450 171 160 522 200 999
Jin, Alan Kadavath, Saurav K. Krishnan, Amrith Kung, Samuel Kuo, Alexander Lee, Lawton L. Lin, Iris Liu, Eric Liu, Kevin Muley, Dhruv A. Mustafi, Urmi Nair, Rohan Pan, Austin Papolu, Anurag Parikh, Shivam S. Pasumarthi, Sashaank Pathmanabhan, Chrishanthi R. Pham, Damon Qin, Tiancheng Rajeev, Nithya D. Reddy, Shreya S. Sabharwal, Shivane Saleem, Matthew I. Sanku, Abhiraj Saquib, Taasin Sarkar, Natasha Seo, Jaeyun S. Shah, Paras Shelat, Nishir M. Shen, Amy Shen, Ruiwen Shen, Yuyi Smith, Hugh L. Subbaraj, Harikaran Sun, Katie Y. Tsai, Sara Umashankkar, Arjun Wang, Anton Y. Wang, Zachary A. Wen, Nicholas Wu, Christine Wu, Didi Wu, Qingyue Xie, Brian B. Yang, Lindsay Yu, Kevin Yuan, Eric Yun, Young Ju Zeng, Mavis Zhang, Claire W. Zhang, Emeri Z. Zhang, Julian Zhao, Alyssa J. Zheng, Emily Zheng, Olivia
WASHINGTON H. S. 628 Chang, Cynthia T.
FRESNO
CLOVIS NORTH H. S. 628 Pondicherry, Neha 600 Srikanth, Jena
CLOVIS WEST H. S. 999 Hill, Emma N. UNIVERSITY H. S. 628 Ahamed, Fayyaz R. 450 Wu, David Y.
FULLERTON
ROSARY H. S. 160 Fang, Lauren K.
SUNNY HILLS H. S. 185 Chung, Paul J. 209 Kim, Andrew 999 Lee, Joanne J. 400 Lee Choi, Matias R. 999 Li, Daniel 000 Park, Mokil 168 Raja, Shivali U. 160 Seo, Mee Kyoung 999 Song, Hyung J. TROY H. S. 453 Albrecht, Sabrina A. 836 Andre de St. Amant, Klarisse M. 175 Bock, Antonia K. 160 Chakraborty, Adrika 164 Chang, Brianna 303 Chen, Hao E.
742 830 000 000 892 160 163 201 201 000 200 450 520 166 522 741 162 162 463 712 162 999 451 000 628 185 185 162 168 450 723 907 600 162 200 999 454 890 450 454 999 522 836 456 999 303 204 740
Chen, Victor L. Chen, Yu-Jane Choi, Hyungjoon J. Chow, Amanda Chu, Daniel Dai, William J. Dong, Matthew Y. Foo, Shannon Y. Ghaly, Bryan M. Gleiser, Robert P. Guo, Michelle Guo, Richard Ho, Leanne K. Hsieh, Ryan R. Hsu, Audrey Hu, Jason Hussain, Asad Jiang, Jiachen Jo, In-Sung Kim, Jay D. Kim, Jed H. Kim, Nathan Y. Kim, Tae K. Lee, You Bin Lim, Susie S. Lin, Alice S. Liu, Emily F. Marinkovich, Samantha N. Mathews, Liza R. Ng, Jasmine Park, Christine Patel, Aakash M. Patton, Elizabeth B. Seo, Hyun Seong Singh, Rajwinder Smith, Laura M. Tang, Joseph S. Tat, Brian J. Wang, Christopher Y. Wang, Tiankun Warren, Nathan D. Wong, Calvin Yang, Junyu Yap, Katrina M. Ye, Justin Yoo, Aaron T. Zhu, Joanna Zimmerman, Zachary A.
HANFORD
HANFORD H. S. 830 Van Fossen, Emma J.
HAYWARD
MOREAU CATHOLIC H. S. Salpekar, Omkar A.
457
HILLSBOROUGH
CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL 161 Du, Angelica P. 000 Kompella, Melina D. 999 Lange, Jane C. 451 Melles, Daniel R. 843 Ramachandran, Shasta
HUNTINGTON BEACH EDISON H. S. 214 Stevens, Julia C.
MARINA H. S. 000 Le, Catherine 000 Nguyen, Joseph L.
IRVINE
ARNOLD O. BECKMAN H. S. Carillo, Paris A. Chang, Michael L. Cheng, Justin Choe, Michael J. Gerchick, Marissa K. Huckleberry, Kurt A. Lee, Annie H. Lee, Soobin Nguyen, Alan P. Ninh, Katrina H. Pai, Alexander E. Park, Soobin Sawada, Rachel K. Singh, Simran Tsao, Kevin C. Wu, Tammy H. Yu, Michael N.
142 162 830 999 999 121 175 628 162 000 162 628 160 162 999 209 000
IRVINE H. S. 467 Ho, Nelson 628 Hsiou, David 630 Kim, Teresa Y. 457 Lee, Kevin S. 270 Suh, Rebecca J. 710 Sun, Karina H. 162 Ton, Andrew T.
GARDEN GROVE
GARDEN GROVE H. S. Ho, Katie
999
GILROY
HOMESCHOOL 999 Chow, Isabella P.
NORTHWOOD H. S. 185 Chang, Stephanie Y. 628 Haraguchi, Samantha M. 254 Heo, Sarah G. 450 Lee, Annabel H. 000 Lee, Annie C. 999 Lee, Dong Hyun 302 Li, Charles P. 904 Li, Janet 164 Lin, Christopher J. 999 Liu, Timothy B. 209 Lu, Tiffany 160 Menon, Nithya A. 999 Pai, Allie 301 Rau, Amrit K. 830 Shankar, Leena S. 628 Suceava, Albert C. 303 Tan, Daniel Y. 218 Thai, Jonathan C. 600 Wang, Cassandra Y. 720 Wei, Jodi 160 Xiong, Kaitlyn H. 250 Yang, Karen W. 904 Yeung, Daniel H. 600 Yu, Richard A. 903 Yun, Kiwon 450 Zhang, Jason 628 Zhou, Andy C. 457 Zhu, Clare
GLENCOE
HOMESCHOOL 742 Wright, Kaya C.
GLENDALE
GLENDALE H. S. 204 Song, Jae I.
GLENDORA
GLENDORA H. S. 162 Patel, Neil J. 204 Su, He
GOLETA
DOS PUEBLOS H. S. Anhalt, Maxwell T. Applebaum, Siena Rader, Alison M.
999 465 000
GRANADA HILLS
GRANADA HILLS CHARTER H. S. 450 Hong, Michael P. 451 Jackola, Ethan T. 999 Kelkar, Rucha R. 628 Lee, John S. 947 Lee, Joshua J. 520 Oh, Caleb S. 999 Xie, Jennifer S.
TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL 160 Kuppermann, Jacob S.
GRANITE BAY
UNIVERSITY H. S. 142 Berger, Zoe R. 000 Bhat, Vaibhav R. 204 Chen, Alexander J. 454 Chen, Heidi 999 Chow, Michelle R. 204 Deepalam, Sanjit H. 204 Feuerborn, Jacob H. 303 Gui, James Z.
GRANITE BAY H. S. 999 Asokan, Savitri 200 Bobbala, Shivani 160 Jacobs, Eric W.
HACIENDA HEIGHTS
GLEN A. WILSON H. S. Young, Kirsten N.
185
5
303 250 999 600 161 450 907 999 160 999 999 168 900 999
Hariri, Emaan Jang, Michelle Y. Kao, Yiling Liang, Alyssa Liu, Bessie X. Lo, Matthew C. Malhotra, Tristan R. Myong, Jonathan J. Nguyen, Elaine A. Reddy, Kurun L. Rhee, Mina Rudin, Alyssa M. Sun, Stephanie S. Yu, Evan
WOODBRIDGE H. S. 200 Cui, Evan 160 Fang, Jean J. 710 Hoffman, Sean M. 990 Iyer, Adithi R. 454 Kim, Joseph 463 Kim, Lauren 185 Koo, HeeJin 999 Liu, Irene 000 Sun, Daniel X. 628 Tram, Justin K. 628 Vivek, Avantika 450 Wang, Jason 162 Wong, Michael
JAMUL
GREATER SAN DIEGO ACADEMY Hashemi-Asasi, Sofia
000
LA CANADA
FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 209 Chang, Arthur 628 Cho, Justin 628 Chu, Albert S. 904 Gutzman, William R. 204 Hathout, Dean G. 999 Juan, Cartier 999 Kwon, Elissa J. 999 Liu, Vick C. 741 Nakano, Clarence M. 303 Pai, William J. 457 Poole, Nikhil H. 628 Shin, David B. LA CANADA H. S. 522 Chong, Hannah J. 520 Cutler-Tietjen, Jordan F. 999 Menemenlis, Sofia A. 303 Muller, Henry R. 999 Oh, Deborah S. 628 Suk, Amber 770 Um, Colin H. 628 Zhang, Selena ST. FRANCIS H. S. 160 Jaeggi-Wong, Philip E.
LA CRESCENTA
CLARK MAGNET H. S. Petrosian, Derek
999
CRESCENTA VALLEY H. S. Gibney, Elise R. Jun, Sarah J. Kemp, Leah Kim, Jieun Lee, Elizabeth Lee, Minji Strong, Kimball D.
000 629 742 836 999 600 000
LA HABRA
SONORA H. S. 162 Bae, Jennifer Y. 600 Lee, Joseph Y. 830 Peterman, Spencer J.
LA JOLLA
THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL Appel, Nicholas C. Chang, Sunah S. Davis, Stephanie G. Drummond, William D. Elms, Mason Hastings, Ryan J. Kim, Daniel D. Li, Angela G. Nair, Ankita Rohn, Dylan J. Sotornik, Tony K. Vogel, Tara D. Zhang, Heather W.
999 999 161 204 164 450 999 450 628 946 990 450 450
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 628 Lee, Philip 450 Liu, Rubia 600 Liu, Steven H. 999 Schleimer, Rebecca O. LA JOLLA H. S. 628 Chang, Alexander J. 175 Dong, Athena 843 Halbert, Clayton G. 742 Li, Joanna L. 999 Mandel, Jonathan 999 Mann, John F. 843 Smigliani, Paul J. THE PREUSS SCHOOL U. C. S. D. Lieu, Triet M.
301
LA MIRADA
LA MIRADA H. S. 605 Koh, Lawrence D.
LA PALMA
JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S. 162 Park, Shin Hye
LA VERNE
BONITA H. S. 160 Wang, Vera M. DAMIEN H. S. 000 Lin, Justin K.
LAFAYETTE
ACALANES H. S. 451 Fang-Horvath, Cole S. 467 Virostek, Connor W. 904 Wang, Iris L.
LAGUNA HILLS
LAGUNA HILLS H. S. 999 Nguyen, Kirsten 843 Sogo, Jeremy C.
LAGUNA NIGUEL HOMESCHOOL 628 Riel, Cole D.
LAKE FOREST
EL TORO H. S. 999 Lo, Jennifer Y.
LIVERMORE
GRANADA H. S. 454 Atwal, Roopjote 303 Nilsen, Justin H.
HOMESCHOOL 000 Sukir, Shruthi P. LIVERMORE H. S. 999 Jiang, Kim
LODI
TOKAY H. S. 200 Chen, Sophie
LOMA LINDA
LOMA LINDA ACADEMY 185 Shin, Brandon J. 185 Tsai, Jacob C.
LONG BEACH
LONG BEACH POLYTECHNIC H. S. Deutsch, Brandon L. Lu, Edward Z.
204 302
LOS ALAMITOS
LOS ALAMITOS H. S. Beaudreau, Danielle Kim, Mark Willingham, Ashley P.
710 836 999
LOS ALTOS
LOS ALTOS H. S. 160 Deng, Kathy 454 Fong, Patrick 000 Hartenbaum, Sophia H. 303 Hollingworth, James D. 999 Huang, Annie X. 450 Jow, William 836 Kishton, Louisa L.
710 000 450 999 870 890 710 161
Morimoto, Samuel H. Pao, Christina K. Pon, Brendon Z. Smith, Nathan P. Suh, Julia H. Townsend, Sierra N. Yen, Katherine K. Zhang, Grace H.
501 450
Tuo, Yannan H. Wang, Xuezhen
LOS OLIVOS
MIDLAND SCHOOL 904 Choi, Jae Yong
MALIBU
MALIBU H. S. 459 Earhart, Gannon
LOS ALTOS HILLS
PINEWOOD SCHOOL 999 den Braven, Mehra I. 999 den Braven, Tehmi E. 906 Kuo, Matheson J. 628 Samel, Ketki
MANHATTAN BEACH
MIRA COSTA H. S. 833 Koch, Lauren H. 450 Nunan, Mariel A. 946 Power, Darby L. 303 Qi, Jiahe 301 Rich, Danit L. 830 Varieschi, Alessandro K. 455 Yamada, Tanner Z.
LOS ANGELES
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL Huang, Kevin Tseng, Kyle Wagner, Joshua H.
999 302 720
MILL VALLEY
CATHEDRAL H. S. 303 Shimelis, Yared T.
TAMALPAIS H. S. 742 Leary, Ryan S.
FAIRFAX H. S. 712 Kim, John K. 999 Lee, Benjamin S. 160 Lee, Se Jung
MILLBRAE
MILLS H. S. 628 Pang, Hannah C. 000 Park, Jimin
ALEXANDER HAMILTON H. S. Byeun, Matthew
MILPITAS
302
HOMESCHOOL 999 Lemaignen, Lauren M.
IMMACULATE HEART H. S. 843 Baeg, Jamie S. 999 Melcher, Louisa M.
MILPITAS H. S. 209 Huang, Wei Yue 000 Kuo, Jessica 710 Shau, Grace 999 Surani, Misbah 185 Tang, Stephen M.
LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR ENRICHED STUDIES 999 Basu, Ann P. 450 Groberman, Rachel N. 303 Kim, Jacqueline S. 162 Lee, Jung H.
MISSION VIEJO
CAPISTRANO VALLEY H. S. Burakoff, Madeline K. Eslami, Iman Mackie, Shon P. Tabdili, Yasmine
LOYOLA H. S. 999 Atlee, Thomas G. 200 Goodman, Alexander R. 000 Lowe, Robert M.
185 906 450 171
MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL Goodman, Olivia R. Raquel, Caroline R. Swartz, Natalie I.
999 999 999
JAMES C. ENOCHS H. S. Wu, Kane
MODESTO H. S. 999 Kara, Samuel L. 628 Khan, Waleed G. 628 Krishnamoorthi, Mahima S.
NEW COVENANT ACADEMY Ahn, Aiden H.
PILGRIM SCHOOL 999 Lee, Jonathan S.
MONTEREY
YORK SCHOOL 843 Awerbuck, Daniel E. 628 de Lorimier, Phillip J. 553 Finch, Emma G. 742 Scott, Jackson T. 123 Zamzow-Pollock, Kevin G.
RENAISSANCE ARTS ACADEMY 175 Hall, Daniel D. RIBET ACADEMY 553 Moazzam-Doulat, Azad
MURRIETA
MURRIETA VALLEY H. S. Amin, Shruti J. Kang, Amrik S. Korman, Branda W.
NAPA
185
204
ST. FRANCIS H. S. 999 Chandler, Jonathan 450 Gopakumar, Manu 303 Hoque, Ryan I. 463 Hu, Emily J. 742 Kamsetty, Amog S. 160 Kapoor, Shrey 999 Karthik, Anjini I. 454 Kutagulla, Shanmukh 999 Lele, Sonia P. 450 Nandy, Bikram 454 Ngbemeneh, Marisa J. 455 Raghavan, Priyanka 457 Sekhar, Pranav 628 Sekharan, Akshaya V. 999 Shastri, Naveen R. 302 Taori, Rohan R. 990 Vasavada, Vrinda D. 303 Vemulapati, Manogna Q. 160 Wang, Valerie 161 Xu, Elise C. 628 Zhao, Barbara F.
MISSION VIEJO H. S. Hadidi, Nima
MODESTO
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL Bachrach, Benjamin M. Fallas, Aviva Kotzubei, Benjamin D.
999 450 454
MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S. Bhat, Amrita Chau, Anthony H. Chern, Jessica H. Goolish, Ethan F. Moise-Grodsky, Daniel J. Murray, Elizabeth K. Ostrowski, Julia P. Pelayo, Anthony J. Segar, Christina S. Sharma, Alaisha K. Silverman, Elaine C. Singhal, Avni P. Steiner, Sheila C. Tsang, Faith S. Wood, Kelyn D.
628 160 160 000 999 450 999 000 467 164 999 450 161 999 467
HOMESCHOOL 723 Murphy, Claire M.
TRABUCO HILLS H. S. 160 Chu, Shannon L. 168 Desai, Vineet M. 741 Li, Claire M. 457 Nicandro, Vincent Jan C. 999 Trujillo, David L. 522 Wood, Andrew J.
MARYMOUNT H. S. 999 Glazier, Ashley L. 943 Regan, Sophie N.
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY 000 Yuan, Jove O. 450 Yuan, Titan R.
628 161 772
161
JOHN MARSHALL H. S. 999 Hong, Min J. 999 Kim, Ryan 303 Ko, Ha J. 741 Woo, Dennis J.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
SHALHEVET H. S. 200 Gill, Jonah D. 999 Wineburgh, Henry K.
MOORPARK
WINDWARD SCHOOL 000 Krieger, Benjamin D.
MORAGA
MOORPARK H. S. 628 Pydi, Aneesha
JUSTIN - SIENA H. S. Bosetti, Joseph
941
NEWBURY PARK
NEWBURY PARK H. S. Chattopadhyay, Shreya Dvoretzky, Rena R. Han, Jessica Ho, Kristen W. Khatore, Nilay Wang, Taylor L.
723 168 000 906 628 218
NEWHALL
WILLIAM S. HART H. S. Xu, Jeffrey H.
450
NEWPORT BEACH
CORONA DEL MAR H. S. Ford, Christopher R. Holland, Claire C. Kuo, Jonathan Naruse, Robert R. Nguyen, Aimee A. Paragas, Matthew R. Pham, Alex-Nhien
907 720 160 000 628 999 162
NEWPORT HARBOR H. S. Grigsby, Angela P.
712
NEWPORT COAST CAMPOLINDO H. S. 166 Gaffney, Uma B. 450 Lin, Aaron S. 742 Parsons, Colin J. 771 Sauerberg, Nathaniel J. 999 Suri, Nikhil A. 999 Taylor, Nicole
LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS H. S. 160 Bholat, Zuhra H. 999 Byun, Hyuntae 999 Kusumi, Koji 303 Lugovoy, Neil F. 450 Mohan, Sanjay A. 214 Potter, Cole 164 Tan, Michelle Y.
MORGAN HILL
OAKWOOD SCHOOL 454 Singh, Nina
6
SAGE HILL SCHOOL Chen, Ruoxi Chung, Connor Dharne, Ashwin N. Jin, Janis Paivine, William J. Park, Kenneth S. Razin, Kitra K.
741 999 301 950 300 214 740
NORTH HOLLYWOOD CAMPBELL HALL 940 Woo, Dahee
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) NORTH HOLLYWOOD H. S. Ashby, Garrett H. Lan, Jason Lee, Addison D. Lee, James Pierone, Polly J. Quema, Iris D. Wei, Rachel Y.
467 300 999 628 140 168 450
OAKWOOD SCHOOL Goodman, Emma O. Greenstein, Henry R.
303 999
OAK PARK
OAK PARK H. S. 999 Chiu, Dennis 904 Dugar, Roshni 600 Lee, Christopher 161 Markarian, Nicholas 742 Qin, Thomas Z. 200 Sutarwala, Taha 999 Ye, Grace
OAKLAND
COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL 185 Bansal, Stuti 999 Christ, Miranda J. 162 Inserni, Miguel 628 Jacobs, Noah D. 990 Jiang, Ryan S. 999 Johann, Zane C. 906 Merkadeau, Eli C. 160 Moser, Eleonore M. 843 Pandit, Nikhil 999 Pang, Nelson B. 000 Shelby, Tara 999 Sloan, Stephen W. 454 Stapleton-Gray, Kye V. 999 Stiegler, Risa E. 467 Tillson, Marie G. 628 Wang, Kira L. 450 Watson, Grant C. 303 Wornow, Michael L. 999 Xiao, Samantha 999 Yun, Max C. HEAD - ROYCE SCHOOL Cao, Nathan W. Chen, Bradford Chern, Sabrina A. Hartman, Natalie C. Judge, Abigail C. Stenger, Jackson K. Williams, Troy A. Zitter, Solomon
000 459 000 000 170 742 472 300
HOMESCHOOL 454 Cluff, Avery J. BISHOP O'DOWD H. S. Yang, Evin Y.
303
OAKLAND TECHNICAL H. S. 167 Countryman, Halle K. 451 Keck, Karl A.
OCEANSIDE
MISSION VISTA H. S. 843 Xu, David
OJAI
THE THACHER SCHOOL Isaacson, Talia Klink, Douglas D. Rauner, Katherine M. Troughton, Colin
908 000 000 000
VILLANOVA PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 843 Griffen, Joseph R.
ORANGEVALE
CASA ROBLE FUNDAMENTAL H. S. Williams, Mira
999
ORINDA
MIRAMONTE H. S. 465 Brooks, Mitchell B. 450 Campbell, Daniel J. 628 Sandvik, Clarissa A. 450 Tang, Mitchell A. 999 Zhou, Jonathan H.
OXNARD
559 628 451 454 467 628 999 303 628 160 791 700 200
OXNARD H. S. 904 Mummery, Robert L.
RIO MESA H. S. 162 Derse, Dominique
PACIFIC PALISADES
PALISADES CHARTER H. S. Arth, Delaney C. Fisher, Everett M. Liu, Alex X. Liu, Kevin X. Nakano, Yuko Wang, Peter W.
999 940 999 600 907 600
Nguyen, Brittany H. Oft, Helena C. Rajaram, Nikhil Wang, Kelsey Y. Wang, Melinda Y. Xin, Jenny Yan, Helen A. Yang, William H. Yellu, Vineet R. Yu, Catherine T. Zhang, Emily Zhang, Kangrong Zhou, William G.
PALO CEDRO
FOOTHILL H. S. 455 Pearson, Allison N.
PALO ALTO
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL Chung, HeeJung W. Flamen, Nicole C. Gadekar, Elena A. Huang, Claire Thakurta, Tara G. Xu, Megan S.
999 467 600 303 162 120
PALOS VERDES ESTATES
HENRY M. GUNN H. S. Brownlee, Peter K. Chen, Shawna R. Cheng, Audrey C. de Silva, Kiran Dresser, Michael Guo, Michelle He, Kadar Hsu, Jarrod D. Hu, Lucas Huang, Andrew L. Joshi, Arnav Karamali, Lina R. Kim, Heeyeon C. Kim, Paul S. Kuffner, Grace Y. Lee, Young Hye Leviten, Nina J. Liao, Lisa C. Lim, Rye Ri Liu, Jocelyn Mahony, Maya Mallery, Alexander D. McPhillips, Erika Miklos, Maya D. Most, Elise S. Nayak, Nandeeka D. Peter, Robin Y. Poux, Nicolas P. Raj, Ajay N. Roy, Maya L. Rutenburg, Daniel Sethuraman, Karunya A. Shin, Dongho Silver, Anita P. Su, Eleanor K. Sun, Lydia Y. Tang, Alex F. Tang, Patricia L. Vishwanath, Maya Vishwanath, Neel Wang, Lisa Wang, Maritha A. Woo, Katharine H. Wu, Linda P. Zhang, Jonathan Zhou, Vivian
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA
PALOS VERDES H. S. Booth, Wesley J. Forsey-Smerek, Alexandra M. Gilbertson, Matthew B. Sun, Janine W.
185 185 000 999
843 250 836 457 303 628 999 000 457 999 450 999 836 209 628 628 160 454 720 185 999 999 999 830 999 303 999 171 303 999 999 773 628 740 999 450 628 950 218 628 999 459 742 450 999 160
CHADWICK SCHOOL Chao, Emily C.
160
PASADENA
LA SALLE H. S. 628 Way, Grant M.
MARANATHA H. S. 454 Vu, Audrey Q. MAYFIELD SCHOOL 999 Dimen, Elizabeth A. POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL Angelopoulos, Anastasios N. Humayun, Hannah N. Kim, Evan Y. Kim, Madeline S. Lee, Jonah Liu, Kelly I. McMahon, Sean G. Phinney, Isabelle Y. Sehgal, Shuchi Vendler, Celine L. Yang, Ferris Yu, Austin
160 185 999 520 121 999 742 450 000 553 999 600
PEBBLE BEACH
STEVENSON H. S. 454 Bairey, Charlotte J. 999 Blasheck, Teeger L. 999 Caddell, John Chapman A. 209 Chen, Yuxin 160 Ki, Jung Hoon 870 Wilson, William Z.
PETALUMA
CASA GRANDE H. S. 501 Zhang, Leo J.
PIEDMONT
PIEDMONT H. S. 999 Cheng, Samuel K. 970 Franklin, Ilana N. 999 Fung, Benjamin 999 Gao, Courtney 720 Howzell, Ryan E. 999 Kim, Miles A. 450 Monical, David 302 Palmer, Grant 300 Samuel, Mingwei K. 160 Seevak, Emma P. 303 Turney, Matthew W.
KEHILLAH JEWISH H. S. Treitel, Mark R.
700
PALO ALTO H. S. 830 Bleich, Paul N. 000 Cai, Tiffany X. 000 Callan, Kylie T. 907 Filseth, Trevor J. 999 Ford, Albert S. 999 Foster, Eric M. 000 Har, Jamie L. 000 Kau, Nathan F. 160 Kim, Jesse M. 303 Lavva, Misha 999 Lee, Andrew W. 166 Li, Ivy 461 Li, Kevin R. 904 Li, Michelle F. 712 Lu, Anna J. 450 Marur, Anant V. 303 Merken, Daniel C. 303 Mo, Chloe 999 Nakai, Anna H. 450 Nee, Mikhail E.
PLACENTIA
EL DORADO H. S. 300 Lazerson, Tori S. VALENCIA H. S. 740 Chew, Joyce A. 999 Jamal, Zoha H. 870 Kim, YoonSik 999 Lai, Julia 999 Li, Andy 162 Nguyen, Andrew M. 723 Nguyen, Tanya M. 185 Patel, Milan R. 450 Patel, Rubin S.
7
PLACERVILLE
EL DORADO H. S. 741 Cohen, Marcus 451 Gavin, Jack M.
PLEASANTON
AMADOR VALLEY H. S. Bhagat, Bhavi V. Chen, Andrew Chen, Jason J. Chen, YingTai Gao, Jing Govil, Varun Gupta, Rahul Hawkins, Alexandra S. Hu, Selena Kim, Brian Krishna, Naren Kye, Geunho Lee, Albert Lipkind, Vlada Liu, Ryan Mo, ZiCong Nagar, Smitha N. Prakash, Yash Ramakrishnan, Varsha R. Shimanui, Luke S. Su, Irene Tang, Ivanna Z. Thakkar, Sajnee V. Tu, Catherine Wan, Michael Wu, Hamilton Y. Xiao, Katherine Yang, Kevin Yeung, Andrew H. Yu, Adam Yue, Boris Zha, Caroline C. Zhang, Tiffany L. Zhou, Connie
000 300 999 830 628 450 999 999 200 999 164 999 628 161 302 773 300 185 303 303 164 166 999 999 999 457 904 999 303 300 302 628 630 628
FOOTHILL H. S. 999 Almeida, Kevin R. 303 Chen, Sharon T. 451 Dickinson, Matthew D. 999 Harries, Robathan 000 Hsieh, William 303 Huang, Alan Y. 904 Hwang, Sung-Wook 164 Kim, Jimmy J. 185 Li, Rebecca 204 Lo, Ardin C. 628 Lu, Eileen 843 Naik, Suhasiny 459 Rauf, Ahad M. 940 Urva, Maya 900 Wang, Kaitlyn Z. 990 Xie, Kellie M. 833 Zhao, Amy Y. QUARRY LANE SCHOOL Desai, Nehal
450
PORTOLA VALLEY
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL Akers, Carolyn S. Hughes, Graham W.
161 450
POWAY
POWAY H. S. 470 Prince, Jacob W. 303 Xue, Camille M.
QUARTZ HILL
QUARTZ HILL H. S. 628 Kumar, Isha 454 Vuong, Lysandra T.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA LOS OSOS H. S. 772 Friedman, David J. 628 Zhong, Lydia M.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA H. S. Sy, Nicole C.
629
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA SANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC H. S. 999 Bao, David D. 741 Bradshaw, Nicolas 454 Elhosni, Christopher 451 Evans, Andrew C. 712 Kim, Hannah 254 Liao, Kristine M. 722 Yim, Sangwoo
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) TESORO H. S. 168 Bhuvan, Vinya 250 Chen-Wong, Tiare Z. 450 Garmany, Hugh L. 454 Green, Emily A.
REDDING
HOMESCHOOL 821 Kato, Yuta
REDLANDS
REDLANDS EAST VALLEY H. S. Bartley, Brennan D.
710
REDLANDS H. S. 454 Johnson, Juliane L.
REDWOOD CITY
SEQUOIA H. S. 123 Ladabaum, Ariele B. 999 Vescia, Carmen R.
RESEDA
CLEVELAND H. S. 250 Jung, Hansol 455 Mbanefo, Chukwudi C.
RIDGECREST
SHERMAN E. BURROUGHS H. S. Marshall, Colum R.
456
RIPON
RIPON CHRISTIAN H. S. 000 Canafe, Aaron
RIVERSIDE
LA SIERRA H. S. 740 Guan, Grace E. JOHN W. NORTH H. S. Kudtarkar, Saachi S.
999
ROCKLIN
ROCKLIN H. S. 168 Holloway, Faith M. 200 Hong, Angela C.
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA H. S. Cheung, Elle F. Ekanayake, Ruwanthi N. Griffin, Laura S. Im, Cheolmin Lee, Seung Jun Liu, Katherine S. Mori, Ryan H. Tan, Jeffrey H. Wei, Jessie L. Yang, Isaac C.
175 999 520 843 000 200 628 999 211 870
ROSEMEAD
ROSEMEAD H. S. 160 Chen, Karen M.
ROSS
BRANSON SCHOOL 999 Howard, Elisabeth A. 501 Lushtak, Samuel M. 999 Schoenberger, Madeline
ROWLAND HEIGHTS
JOHN A. ROWLAND H. S. 170 Chan, Tiffany T. 999 Kim, Cozette E. 185 Lo, Ja Shen 162 Phan, Brandon X. 628 Shin, Janis 160 Zhang, Crystal Y.
SACRAMENTO
BRADSHAW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Maw, Kyle R.
450
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H. S. Lee, Anysia M.
200
MIRA LOMA H. S. 555 Adams, Rose H. 303 Cai, Emily S. 900 Cameron, Catherine C. 185 Gurev, Sarah F. 904 Li, Vivian
455 161 628 999
Prakasam, Manu K. Thakkar, Vyom R. Yang, Krista Zuber, Shaina
Sun, Joe Y. Swamy, Gokul Thatte, Revati J. Wong, Nicholas F. Wu, Carolyn N. Yang, Yuqing Zheng, Liming Zhou, Andrew B. Zhu, Cassie
303 000 162 000 999 160 000 161
PATRICK HENRY H. S. 300 Rodney, Ian L.
000 302 000 000
904 301 254 454 628 168 870 999 160
RIO AMERICANO H. S. Baker, Jason P.
999
SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 559 Fineberg, Amelia M. 907 Swaminathan, Anthony V.
SALINAS
HIGH TECH HIGH 999 Ho, Madeline B.
PALMA H. S. 741 Ottone, Nicholas M.
HOMESCHOOL 999 Hempton, Laura N. 950 Liu, Adrian Y.
SALINAS H. S. 164 Liu, Mary Y. 457 Sinha, Kapil
MOUNT CARMEL H. S. Moran, Victoria J. Pradeep, Bharat Tran, Minh-Khoa Tu, Amy A.
SAN ANSELMO
450 451 454 450
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE H. S. Vernon, Benjamin I.
999
SAN BERNARDINO
MOUNT EVEREST ACADEMY Kalyuzhny, Maria
AQUINAS H. S. 162 Brown, Caroline V.
999
FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL Aggarwal, Ashna Appel, Trevor C. Bose, Anoushka R. Nandipati, Snigdha Ross, Ruby F. Washabaugh, Justin M.
SAN CLEMENTE
SAN CLEMENTE H. S. 000 England, Seth B. 999 Patel, Nicole B.
160 830 300 870 628 160
SAN DIEGO
CANYON CREST ACADEMY Atun, Sara E. Bickett, Benton L. Chang, Timothy Y. Chen, Brian Chidambaram, Bhairav P. Fan, Michelle C. Gou, Angie L. Guo, Erica L. Huang, Allan Huang, James J. Huh, Yubin Kang, Jeewon Ke, Bryant J. Kim, Lois J. Lee, Miranda Li, Eric Li, Tingwei Mar, Nathan J. Matheson, Amanda N. Nichani, Eshaan Ouyang, Ellen Pan, Zilu Peng, Michael Pollner, Tristan S. Rejto, Alexander G. Schweiger, Alice L. Shao, Samantha Sun, Frank Y. Vaughn, Julie R. Wang, Andy S. Wang, Wesley D. Wibowo, Michael B. Williams, Jacob L. Wu, Kevin Y. Xiong, Kevin J. Zhao, Michelle D. Zhu, Emily L. Ziv, Maya L.
463 999 450 999 999 628 000 166 450 553 870 522 741 628 999 000 175 553 999 999 628 741 450 999 166 629 185 970 450 459 000 450 300 302 303 209 999 461
RANCHO BERNARDO H. S. Betrabet, Sachin Bi, Lynn Caparas, Tristan F. Hu, Kevin Lu, Jiashen G. Ortiz, Isabella T. Rezvani, Amir A. Rui, Nicholas Z. Yang, Sydney G. Zhao, Qing Lan
741 830 600 160 999 200 710 833 710 999
SCRIPPS RANCH H. S. 451 Audick, Maximillian J. 999 Ding, Chloe C. 628 Fazelpour, Sherwin 455 Friedenberg, Brian 303 Hu, Bryan 300 Li, Justin Z. 999 Li, XiaoYu 999 Shah, Nilay M. 999 Trando, Aaron H. 712 Wang, Jesse Q. 999 Xia, Jonathan 162 Zhang, Andy ST. AUGUSTINE H. S. Paye, Jacques L.
830
TORREY PINES H. S. Bisarya, Pooja N. Chakraverti-Wuerther, Milena S. Chen, Bofan Chen, Bryan S. Edmonds, Darren H. Gong, Ivy Hao, Tongyu Hu, Stephanie M. Huang, Jeffrey Jung, Catherine Kim, Sarah Kothari, Casimir Krishnamurthi, Nithin Li, JiaQi Lore, Derek A. Lu, Christopher Y. Mochernak, Tasia Moi, Kiana S. Parkes, Samantha Qu, Alice Rhim, Kristina Rim, Andrew K. Roy, Micaela Shinkre, Tanvi R. Tran, Sarah Vasconcelos, Francisca Vikram, Vasudev M. Wang, An Wang, Andrew A. Xiang, Edric C.
454 999 999 999 200 940 600 160 628 628 999 742 303 454 450 501 000 999 175 999 999 170 204 999 000 303 303 000 459 300
CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC H. S. Blischak, Brandon R. Lofthus, Sean J. Mezzino, Jane
999 450 870
DEL NORTE H. S. 501 An, Kevin J. 000 Arbab, Arman 201 Casey, Brian A. 160 Chakraborty, Ahana 303 Chen, Tina Y. 160 Ghassemzadeh, Saeed 162 Huang, Jane J. 303 Huang, Lillian 204 Kang, Lindsey 999 Kim, Thomas J. 999 Kudrimoti, Aishwarya A. 450 Li, Grace Y. 999 Liu, Joanna 450 Ngo, Vincent D. 455 Ramsayer, Alexander G. 300 Shea, Ellen V.
8
Yang, Jessica I. Yun, Youngho Yundov, Simon A. Zhang, Austin S. Zhang, Caroline C. Zhang, Sijia Zhao, Michelle A. Zhao, Walter
UNIVERSITY CITY H. S. George, Micayla L. Pick, Nathaniel S. Slobodyanyuk, Elena Zeger, Emi
WESTVIEW H. S. 209 Bhattacharya, Arvin 999 Chang, Tyler A. 209 Chen, Jennifer L. 870 Cho, Jooeun 710 Cho, Seungeun 904 Chou, Sarah T. 214 Fan, Catherine 000 Fratian, Andrew 836 Guy, Jacqueline 160 Jin, Helen Y. 209 Kang, Jason J. 204 Khan, Ozair I. 160 Kong, Franklin 450 Kwan, Wanfei 171 Lan, Rae 161 Lee, Ha Eun 740 Li, Justin D. 459 Li, Maia L. 999 Lin, Emily 522 Liu, Rebecca 459 Nasielski, Mark T. 999 Oikawa, Hannah Y. 450 Parekh, Bansi N. 450 Pineda, Steven 162 Qiao, Edward 450 Quitt, Robert L. 459 Sun, Kevin Y. 170 Tran, Nathan L. 209 Xu, Henry Z. 164 Zhang, Brandon M. 303 Zhuang, Jennifer N.
SAN FRANCISCO
RUTH ASAWA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 000 Yap, Colin S. CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART H. S. 600 Lum, Liana P.
GALILEO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 302 Tong, Allen JEWISH COMMUNITY H. S. OF THE BAY 301 Sosebee, Daniel N. 999 Zak, Joshua S. LICK - WILMERDING H. S. Brocchini, Nikhil Cornejo, Rachael D. Martin, Sonia M. Sparagon, Jeremy A. Wu, Elizabeth P.
000 999 999 836 999
LOWELL H. S. 459 Kandala, Averal N. 200 Li, Stephanie S. 999 Lin, Jackie J. 999 Lo, Alexander 450 White, Thomas C. SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY 999 Bramlett, Maxwell G. 166 Cheon, Unique J. 999 Wong, Kimberly R. SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY H. S. Fogel, Hart P. Gandhi-Gupta, Shreya Hao, Sabrina E. Hui, Angela F. Li, Jack Rotenstreich, Karina A. Sherr, Rachel J. Vidano, Laura M. Warren, Aidan M. Wenokur, Arielle S.
999 160 160 999 160 000 999 000 000 000
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 000 000
Xu, Antonia E. Young, Sarah
ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 164 Abad, Allyson E. 740 Gamino, Megan R. 999 Huang, Christopher Y. 870 Kau, Valerie S. 303 Reidy, Kyle J. URBAN SCHOOL 999 Goldberg, Isidor S.
SAN GABRIEL
GABRIELINO H. S. 200 Lee, Alan 450 Ma, Jason
SAN GABRIEL H. S. 450 Kang, Stephen
SAN JOSE
BASIS I NDEPENDENT NDEPENDENT SILICON VALLEY 450 Dolgov, Pavel 162 Teng, Isabella
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY 455 Bandyopadhyay, Ayan 950 Chien, Alex 000 Duong, Nathaniel L. 906 Ingram, Mark C. 303 Jain, Shreyan 160 Kim, Josh G. 163 MacPhee, Callen S. 303 Menezes, Rohan 302 Mondal, Amit B. 160 Ragaraman, Sidharth 450 Roggenkemper, Ryan A. 164 Sayana, Anin 201 Shortt, Stefan E. 908 Vandenberg, Alec W. 303 Yang, John B. EVERGREEN VALLEY H. S. Abushama, Basil J. Bagchi, Auni Y. Deglurkar, Sampada Dodda, Neelesh Du, Michelle R. Feng, Flora L. Gan, Yongqi He, Daphne Hu, Jialin Jiang, Yuchen S. Kapre, Ketan R. Kaur, Inderpal Lin, Justin Lin, Kevin Lu, Stanley Y. Panda, Ashwinee Parikh, Aakash S. Revanur, Swetha Saravanan, Manu R. Sayeed, Sumaiya Sheng, Shiyi Sinnarkar, Vaishnavi Trinh, Christina L. Tyagi, Aayush Vivrekar, Janaki Wen, Jinghua Yep, Tyler M.
204 303 450 303 303 300 904 168 602 303 830 999 450 628 999 712 301 454 628 162 843 883 162 830 843 000 459
HARKER SCHOOL 999 Bharadwaj, Vivek S. 940 Dai, Jonathan 999 Daran, Rohan A. 743 Desikan, Rohan 121 Ding, Victoria S. 185 Gautam, Ayushi S. 162 Guan, Grace Z. 999 Gudapati, Prithvi 999 Hao, Cynthia V. 900 Hong, Shannon Y. 999 Huang, Angela 999 Huang, Kaylan Q. 170 Huang, Stephanie 303 Hung, Joshua L. 999 Jain, Raghav 450 Jeyendran, Maya 712 Ketineni, Abhinav
628 999 999 628 185 710 450 999 999 999 303 892 450 741 628 999 185 999 450 160 628 303 559 628 000 463 300 740 628 843 999 742 185 999
Ko, Kristen Kosaraju, Vineet S. Lee, Janet C. Lee, Jason Li, Adele Liu, Lisa Lohn, Evan M. Luo, Anthony J. Luo, Sophia Y. Ma, Jonathan Q. Malladi, Sadhika S. Mayor, Natasha Minocha, Shivali Mohindra, Anika Murari, Aishwarya G. Pan, Emily S. Park, Kristen H. Patel, Sohil Periyakoil, Divya Qi, Karen Rajput, Sanil Ramoji, Nikita R. Siegel, Elisabeth M. Simonian, Natalie T. Thockchom, Gurutam Tu, Karen Y. Velagapudi, Anish Wang, Allison Y. Wang, Esther Wu, Alice Q. Yang, Daphne Yi, Richard Zhao, Michael J. Zhu, Jessica F.
870 949 302 300 162 000 740 170 999 450 303 300 254 999 466 200 161 303 303 000 999 628 740 000 999 303 166 302 000 999 999 303 209 999 450
HOMESCHOOL 710 Ji, Lillian 628 Pang, Jonathan C.
Huang, Lydia W. Hudepohl, Cassidy J. Huynh, Eric K. Iyer, Rahul Jiang, Rena Y. Kao, Esther Kapoor, Kabir S. Khoche, Atrey A. Kim, Christopher O. Kuo, Jessie Lam, Grace S. Lee, Edward W. Lee, Pauline S. Li, Gary Liang, Nicolas B. Ma, Xingyu Mao, Jack Nene, Ajinkya K. Rayabhari, Ankush Si, Andrew Somani, Chetan Somani, Shailja Su, Eric Venkataramani, Urmila Wang, Cynthia Wang, Stephanie S. Wang, Vania Yang, Benjamin Yang, Jiayue Yuan, Kenneth K. Zhang, Cindy Zhang, Jiaming Zhang, Ronald Zhao, Catherine Zhao, Erik H.
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 870 Chou, Emily M. VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. Boen, Adrianna F. Chang, Austin W. Chen, Angie L. Chon, Jonathan S. Dong, Jeremy Z. Ge, Cooper J. Keener, Kayla J. Lee, Junhyuck Lin, Samuel Lin-He, Maxwell Y. Nijmeh, Charles H. Tran, Melanie D. Wang, Aipu Wang, Leia E.
999 160 160 303 999 999 999 450 451 999 999 162 457 204
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
J SERRA CATHOLIC H. S. Santoro, Joseph A.
600
ST. MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 520 Engel, Sarah G.
SAN LUIS OBISPO
SAN LUIS OBISPO H. S. Eisendrath, Samuel P. Pal, Sohum
999 185
SAN MARCOS
MISSION HILLS H. S. Henning, Robert C.
459
ARCHBISHOP MITTY H. S. Bansal, Sumeet Bhat, Niharika N. Caraccio, Chiara Cherukuri, Yeshwini Condensa, Ryan D. Davoren, Ian A. Gallaher, Robin Y. Govindaraju, Pranav Kim, Bumjin Kulkarni, Siddharth S. Leong, Celina W. Mathew, Shana Mi, Justin Mohan, Sameehita Ramaprasad, Abhijit Somayaji, Medha Steiger, Athreya B. Sun, Edward K. Wani, Yash R. Xiao, Qimeng Xie, Elaine Yerrapotu, Amulya
451 999 906 200 830 999 454 999 999 161 160 303 773 204 628 628 170 162 999 303 722 463
INDEPENDENCE H. S. 450 Cao, Kevin 628 Lee, Lucia 303 Mangla, Ashna LEIGH H. S. 454 Lester, Meera I. 302 Liu, Sijay LELAND H. S. 999 Basit, Zain R. 300 Bi, Jason 160 Chong, David 999 Chu, Derek R. 303 Cui, Kyle 906 Desai, Prashant P. 628 Eum, Jaejin 162 Gao, Catherine W. 906 Gu, Shannon S. 450 Han, Dong Hee 999 Heera, Ali-Asghar M. 218 Huang, Caitlyn 628 Kelbert, James W. 627 Khong, Megan L. 300 Kim, Dong Yoon 999 Kim, Min Ki 160 Ko, Michael 457 Kshirsagar, Sohil S. 301 Lee, Bill N. 999 Lee, Justin Y. 457 Li, Angela 300 Li, Chris B. 830 Llacer, Isabel O. 161 Luo, Alex T. 999 Madhvapathy, Sarika R. 830 Nair, Sathvik 836 Nguyen, Baolinh K. 999 Nguyen, Viet 628 Ryu, Megan Y. 161 Smoot, Nicole 720 Varma, Anuj N. 999 Wang, Alex 502 Young, Alice
NOTRE DAME H. S. 628 Banda, Snigdha 200 Crowley, Danica M. 451 Kawa, Tamara 999 Richter, Kristi L. 900 Yip, Czarina T. PIEDMONT HILLS H. S. Chen, Roger Cheng, Kylie M. Fong, Michelle C. Hsiao, Jessica Leung, Walt B. Lin, Royson Ou, Benjamin Wei, Eric M. Xiao, Linda Yew, Kimberly Zhang, Elaine
999 166 202 628 303 450 302 999 450 162 303
PIONEER H. S. 450 Liu, Matthew
LYNBROOK H. S. 300 Bhattaram, Keerthi S. 164 Buduma, Nithin 999 Cai, Renee D. 450 Chan, Janice 999 Chang, Jeffrey 160 Cheng, Lawrence 999 Cheung, Christopher M. 906 Fan, Alvin S. 459 Gupta, Aayush 200 He, Panyu 302 Hsieh, Austin 000 Huang, David 999 Huang, Frannie E.
PRESENTATION PRESENTATION H. S. 454 Varma, Maya 457 Vishwabhan, Stuti SANTA TERESA H. S. 501 Jojan, Tony SILVER CREEK H. S. 999 Jones, Sabrina H. 200 Manga, Pratima S. 451 Pabla, Simran K. 457 Truong, Dan P.
9
SAN MARINO
SAN MARINO H. S. 000 Chen, Annie 000 Gandawidjaja, Madeleine H. 000 Hsu, Jonathan 000 Hsu, Mandy 160 Huang, Elijah D. 000 Kalidhindi, Rajeswari H. 000 Lin, Rebecca 000 Liu, Emerson J. 000 Liu, Rachelle 000 Sun, Andrew 000 Tse, Eric J. 000 Yu, Joshua N.
SAN MATEO
ARAGON H. S. 450 Bonbright, Travis J. 830 Chen, Eric 628 Cheng, Russell W. 773 He, Horace 160 Hsiao, Virginia 904 Kishiyama, Jeffrey T. 160 Ku, Carolyn J. 999 Liu, Janet M. 467 Olson, Alton Y. 999 Ouyang, Huayu L. 830 Pollock, Joshua M. 454 Shen, Shiyi 740 Wang, Tong HILLSDALE H. S. 451 Karpishin, Michelle A. 450 Lee, Victor
SAN MATEO H. S. 450 Ding, Geoffrey 167 Schuster, Laurel T. 303 Wang, Eric J. JUNIPERO SERRA H. S. Takla, Michael J. Tighe, Ian A.
500 450
SAN RAFAEL
MARIN ACADEMY 773 Leffler, Sean D. 836 Smith, Tanya N. 204 Vetter, Douglas D.
SAN RAFAEL H. S. 999 Cumming, Aidan J. 450 Zahradnik, Anton J. TERRA LINDA H. S. 450 Tsibulya, Valentin
SAN RAMON
CALIFORNIA H. S. 303 Guo, Austin
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) 185 162 303 459 999 160
Hefter, Katelyn N. Karthikeyan, Dhuvarakesh Kushwah, Shivendra P. Mamoon, Nabeel Mohanraj, Adhithya Schiffman, Allison B.
DOUGHERTY VALLEY H. S. Arakkal, Harry M. Beldona, Varun Booreddy, Sathwik R. Chan, Victor C. Chen, Daniel M. Fu, Claire C. Garg, Eashan Gaur, Aditi Gomes, Jessica S. Gupta, Saransh Jia, Effie W. Jin, Selena M. Joshi, Nupur R. Kambath, Akaash A. Khoudian, Natalia A. Kini, Pooja Lacson, Kristine A. Lee, Sarah S. Li, Sean W. Liang, Shuchen Lim, Julie Y. Lin, Christen Maganahalli, Ayush S. Makineni, Anirudh Mathur, Atishay Mattegunta, Yajushi Menon, Meera Nawani, Nikita M. Nguyen, Bodhi A. Pamidimukkala, Venkata S. Pavar, Gautham P. Salinamakki, Nishanth R. Santhakumar, Jessica Sawhney, Nikhil Shek, Jeremy Shi, Michael W. Somani, Neel Tang, Michael Y. Verma, Sunil Yakkali, Hemanth Yan, Noah A. Yan, Wilson Young, Sarah M. Zhao, Diane Zheng, Margaret M.
303 459 628 457 457 000 301 185 454 303 160 450 999 303 214 303 999 628 467 741 999 999 999 451 628 999 303 999 999 628 999 302 628 710 629 999 300 209 209 450 628 301 742 629 999
SANTA ANA
FOOTHILL H. S. 250 Gorlinski, Lana M. 542 Hill, Emily Y. 836 McBride, Cameron S. 628 Rao, Rohan 628 Seo, Chung Yun ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 000 LeDuc, Dominic 700 Rosenberg, Clara J.
SANTA BARBARA
LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL Morello, Cameron B.
999
SAN MARCOS H. S. 450 Douglas, Sarah K. 999 McQueen, Megan N. SANTA BARBARA H. S. Brewer, Anna
303
SANTA CLARA
ADRIAN C. WILCOX H. S. 999 Desai, Jemin J. 457 Manthani, Neel R. 999 Ray, Arjun J.
SANTA CLARITA
ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS 161 Lewis, Connor H. 908 Ring, Lauren M. GOLDEN VALLEY H. S. 999 Corbin, Jason Y.
ROYAL H. S. 451 Ota, Robert I.
SANTA CRUZ
GEORGIANA BRUCE KIRBY PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 000 Allen, Nathan M.
SIMI VALLEY H. S. 903 Hoolihan, Kyra A.
PACIFIC COLLEGIATE SCHOOL Zheng, Jason
990
SOLANA BEACH
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 209 Matey, Miles B.
SANTA CRUZ H. S. 999 Brauner, Abie 741 Discipulo, Isaiah K. 000 Kumaishi, Zachary
SOQUEL
BEACH H. S. 000 Curtis, Shiloh S.
SANTA MONICA
SANTA MONICA H. S. Cheung, Rowan T. Chien, Dean W. Ferrarin, Christopher A. Ferrarin, Gianna M.
000 160 459 161
SOUTH PASADENA
SOUTH PASADENA H. S. 712 Chiu, Olivia H. 830 Gilmartin, Raymond U. 600 Hellwig, Madeline 900 Jun, Somi 454 Roberts-Mataric, Helena M. 204 Ruan, Richard 720 Song, Jaehyeon 628 Ye, Emily S.
SANTA ROSA
MARIA CARRILLO H. S. Ainsworth, Alexia M. Chong, Davis S. Schoenbach, Gabriel B.
999 628 742
THOUSAND OAKS
THOUSAND OAKS H. S. Chang, Ryan Lee, Louis M.
832 000
TORRANCE
BISHOP MONTGOMERY H. S. Macaraeg, David J.
450
SOUTH H. S. 990 Kang, Kevin TORRANCE H. S. 843 Chaffey, Cameron R. WEST H. S. 303 Fan, Will 836 Wang, Daniel 120 Zhou, Jessica
TRACY
JOHN C. KIMBALL H. S. Kothari, Medha
999
TRACY JOINT UNION H. S. Raniwala, Hamza H.
454
REDWOOD ADVENTIST ACADEMY 999 Jang, Casey S.
STOCKTON
HOMESCHOOL 209 Zhu, Nathan
SANTA YNEZ
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY UNION H. S. Mordini-Bluhm, Casey E.
550
LINCOLN H. S. 303 Chen, Lawrence 999 Chien, Gianna G. 628 Reddy, Nidhi K. 628 Zhang, Catherine X.
SARATOGA
PROSPECT H. S. 450 Mittal, Pradyuman
SARATOGA H. S. 457 Agrawal, Nihar G. 303 Arjavalingam, Avinash 948 Arunkumar, Nithika 000 Bellathur, Adithya S. 999 Cen, Michelle 000 Chen, Ashley 741 Chen, Helen 999 Chen, Jennifer S. 000 Choudhary, Varun 160 Corno, Giulia 000 Eem, Dongbeom 948 Jeong, Yena 999 Jiang, Andrew J. 162 Kim, Kayla J. 743 Lai, Nicholas 200 Leung, Chester C. 301 Li, Alexander 999 Li, Elizabeth Y. 450 Liang, Celine K. 300 Liu, Katherine Z. 999 Maheshwari, Nupur 000 Malwankar, Jayee K. 466 Moghadam, Farbod A. 303 Ney, Brendan S. 450 Rachamallu, Meera R. 161 Ramesh, Ashvita 211 Shah, Kanaai 500 Shen, Michelle 303 Shi, Sean 000 Tang, Dorrie A. 204 Tran, Matthew D. 200 Trifonova, Oksana 000 Veerapaneni, Rishi 627 Velchamy, Janani 522 Xiao, Kelly 459 Yang, Harrison 522 Yu, Lisa 999 Zhang, Kristine A. 164 Zhou, Andrew M.
MIDDLE COLLEGE H. S. Feng, Amber D.
218
STUDIO CITY
HARVARD - WESTLAKE SCHOOL 459 Belateche, Zachary I. 501 Campbell, Laura M. 771 Chow, Sharon 999 Hsing, Alexander L. 360 Jung, Sean S. 999 Kang, Elliot 999 Kawana, Cole Y. 999 Kelson, Hannah H. 999 Kihiczak, Alex D. 999 Ko, Eugenia 457 Lahera, Paula 999 Lee, Christopher S. 907 Lee, Jaebok 214 Lee, Nathan S. 454 Lim, Leena 946 Lin, Sacha J. 999 Mahajan, Arjun 900 Mosch, Daniel 303 Most, Benjamin 303 Muhlheim, Henry C. 450 Nelson, Jon A. 700 Perez, Lucas A. 999 Rasekhi, Hannah D. 000 Saltzman, Joss P. 459 Seymour, Jonathan B. 454 Steele, Nicholas A. 946 Thomas, Genevieve A. 454 Tribull, Carl D. 000 Van Tongeren, Miles N. 999 Woronoff, Simone A. 160 Wu, Andrew E.
SUNNYVALE
FREMONT H. S. 301 Howard, Logan R. 303 Kedia, Rishab 200 Zhang, Yicheng
SAUGUS
SAUGUS H. S. 303 Lee, Jason K. 943 Young, Jill K.
THE KING'S ACADEMY Chen, Royce Y. Li, Helen Ling, Caleb L. Nguyen, Janet T. Samineni, Aneesh V. Sun, Hubert S.
603 520 836 522 628 999
SEBASTOPOL
ORCHARD VIEW SCHOOL Hall-Zazueta, Fiona
300
SHERMAN OAKS
BUCKLEY SCHOOL 454 Shapiro, Everest F.
TEMPLE CITY
NOTRE DAME H. S. 628 Yi, Janice J.
TEMPLE CITY H. S. 999 Chen, Allen 160 Chen, Celena 999 Choi, Daniel J. 000 Hua, Joanna 161 Trinh, Sabrina
SIMI VALLEY
HOMESCHOOL 467 Handlin, Christopher R.
10
MERRILL F. WEST H. S. Yang, Bill
459
UNION CITY
JAMES LOGAN H. S. 450 Karetl, Keerti S. 185 Nguyen, Ann 303 Sun, YiChen
UPLAND
UPLAND H. S. 454 Suhardjo, Amanda V.
VALENCIA
VALENCIA H. S. 628 Dai, Kevin X. 999 Fung, Natalie C. 502 Wong, Zachary A.
WEST RANCH H. S. 162 Kim, Jonathan H. 907 Lee, Aaron Bryce M.
VAN NUYS
VAN NUYS H. S. 999 Hahn, Krystal 160 Jho, Sarah 306 Kao, Timothy M. 907 Kim, HwiSoo 218 Lee, Nicholas S. 302 Rajesh, Prashanth
VENTURA
FOOTHILL TECHNOLOGY H. S. Jespersen, Andrew T.
461
VILLA PARK
HOMESCHOOL 200 Kim, Elizabeth U.
VILLA PARK H. S. 450 Pham, Jane A. 463 Pham, Karen V.
VISTA
VISTA H. S. 843 Aranjo, Jeyla M.
WALNUT
WALNUT H. S. 160 Chang, Alison 870 Chang, Michelle 302 Hang, Benjamin P. 629 Kim, Jane 999 Ko, Brian Y. 171 Li, Alvin 712 Li, Doris 000 Qin, Dardrin 451 Trinh, Dalton 185 Wan, Derek 163 Wong, Angel T. 200 Yoon, Daniel 450 Zhu, Freya 906 Zhu, Maxwell L.
WALNUT CREEK
BEREAN CHRISTIAN H. S. Engel, Alexander C.
303
Semifinalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued) LAS LOMAS H. S. 301 Hess, Tjaden A. NORTHGATE H. S. 999 Harrington, Joseph A. 454 Lee, Jaewon 999 Zhang, Emily
WEST HILLS
CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL 559 Joseph, Noah T. HOMESCHOOL 000 Graening, Alexander P. NEW COMMUNITY JEWISH H. S. Spiegel, Elijah W.
185
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
OAKS CHRISTIAN H. S. Na, Edwin H. Peters, Amanda N.
999 742
WESTLAKE H. S. 843 Alvi, Sulaiman 454 Clarke, Lauren E. 218 Demsetz, Emily J. 160 Hsu, Cynthia 999 Liao, Simone Y. 770 Shah, Kanhai D. 843 Suslik, David J. 160 Tokuyama, Donovan W. 999 Wang, Qingyang 999 Yen, Alina 000 Zhang, Nicholas B. 628 Zhong, Alicia L.
WESTMINSTER
LA QUINTA H. S. 600 Cao, Paul 160 Huynh, Grace 459 Thieu, James
WOODLAND HILLS
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT H. S. Feldmar, Blake A.
454
WOODSIDE
WOODSIDE H. S. 999 Mullen, Alec H.
YORBA LINDA
YORBA LINDA H. S. 451 Lee, Andrew L.
11
ADDENDUM
Each student listed below was named a Seminalist in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program for your state after the list was nalized. Seminalists: 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
MOUNT CARMEL H. S. Hodges, Sam W. SAN JOSE
LELAND H. S. Park, Sung Ho
