The National Merit Scholarship Program honors academically talent high school seniors to be considered for major scholarships for their respective postgrad plans. Semifinalists in the county are as follows, by high school:
Gordon Cheng, Bailey Chinnan, Brant Chung, Kaelyn Chutczer, Daniil Gurenkov, Alexander Hall, Alex Kim, Arthur Li, Kevin Li, Isabelle Ling, Jax Manning, Antonina Mikriukova, Khang Nguyen Ngoc Chung, Kerem Olgun, Jonathan Park, Nikhil Parvathaneni, Navy Sharda, Ian Shi, Rohan Shukla, Adam Smith and Tyler Tachiki of Carlmont High School.
Margaret Blanchard of Notre Dame High School in Belmont.
Derek Chen, Noah Chiang, Allison Duh, Aidan Eglington, Jay Kang, Jaslene Lai, Ivana Ma, Emily Meng, Shai Ring, Adrian Su and Elaine Tsai of Burlingame High School.
Kylie Cox, Katherine Cueva, Jonathan Gassend, Dane Hansen, Austin Horton, Andrei Jacques, Juliana Kha, Audrey Lee, Paige McGaraghan, Louisa Pflaum, Molly Rosen, Kentaro Wuertele and Acacia Yoon of Menlo-Atherton High School.
William Beesley, Sohum Berry, Connor Burks, Stephen Halprin and Reed Sunoco of Menlo School.
David Edelman, Jaiden Hgumman, Ario Hamrah, Brooke Soderbery, Katherine Ware and Lewa Drew White of Sacred Heart Preparatory School.
Lucas Alvarado, Charlize Arriola, Andrew Baum, Ethan Guo, Chase Hikida, Allison Jung, Reina Kimura, Julianna Maxcy, Vaayu Saini, Peter Shen, Nicholas Veit, Eloise Yoon, Alexa Zhang and Keira Zhang of Crystal Springs Uplands School.
David Li, Jasmine Li, Ian Lin, Dashan Liu, Stephen Rong, Xiaotong Zhang and Ann Zhou of Mills High School.
Elia Kang, Alice Kynagh, Ashwin Raj and Aiden Weiss of Design Tech High School.
Aditya Gupta, Cole Myers and Tate Rowell of Sequoia High School.
Gemma Albertson, Kendrick Cheung, Sylvia Demeule, Gavin Epstein, Brody Friedeberg, Chin-ray Kong, Aayushi Kothari, Yonghua Liu, Cameron Ngai, Luke Novak, Evan Rocket, Meilin Rife, Arun Yama, Nicole Yang, Katilyn Zee and Charles Zhong of Aragon High School.
Jonas Bell and Sean Whiskey of Hillsdale High School.
Ryan Albright, Oliver Alferness, Audit Barde, Anwen Chen, Colin Chu, Penelope Chung, Max Emanuel, Jackson Hayward, Jack Hus, Jonathan Hang, Arishka Jha, Max Kaufman, Ellie Lin, Kayla Ling, Sydney Liu, Emily Menlo, Jaisimh Romanan, Deniz Soral, Emma Wang, Andromeda Wen, Michael Yang, Rachel Yun and Caitlyn Zhu of The Nueva School.
Grace Huang, Lina Soo Hoo and Madeleine Yang of San Mateo High School.
Asher Smuek and Katherine Webb of Woodside High School.
Dongxiang Wu of San Mateo graduated with a master’s degree from Trine University in Indiana.
Gerard Aquino of San Mateo, Priscilla Chin of South San Francisco, Laura Hotchkiss of San Bruno and Daniel Beckman of Pacifica were named to the dean’s list at Southern New Hampshire University for earning a GPA between 3.5 to 3.69.
Jared DeSemple of Foster City, Gianna Hannaway of San Mateo, Elisa Navarro of East Palo Alto, Caitlyn Millard and Adriana Galindo of South San Francisco, Luca Kinchen of San Bruno, Samuel Pupo Wong of Redwood City, Angelica Robins of Brisbane, and Francis Arnold Senense Jr., Jacklyn Collins and Treciajane Bangot of Daly City were named to the president’s list at Southern New Hampshire University for earning a GPA of 3.7 or above.
Class Notes is a column dedicated to school news. It is compiled by education reporter Ana Mata. You can contact her at ana@smdailyjournal.com.
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