Thirty-three Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Out of those 33, 28 are from Redmond or Redmond-area schools.
Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the finalist level. More than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $33 million.
Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest-scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
Here are the LWSD National Merit semifinalists from Redmond:
International Community School
McKenna Conlin, Alicia Kacharia, Taeheon Kim and Irene Thomas
Maya Crandall-Malcolm and Louis Norred
Vishal Baskar, Sophia Chang, Marcelo Cunningham, Falak Daud, Shloak Jain, Siri Mellem, Jaehee Park, Martin Randal, Marium Raza, Irika Sinha, Dana Spillinger, Pearl Thijssen and Oliver Zhou.
Kyran Adams, Stephen Fitch, Hemil Gajjar, Michael Gringauze, Aditya Kumar, Rishi Ramesh, Abhinav Singh, Varsha Veeramachaneni and Benjamin Zabback.
