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National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist List Released

Cupertino students have strong showing in semifinal line-up of prestigious scholarship program.

The list of semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation was released Wednesday; students on that list who attend Cupertino, Homestead, Lynbrook, and Monta Vista high schools are listed below.

There are about 16,000 semifinalists, and the program expects about 15,000 of the students to advance to the finalist level, which will be announced in February.

More than half of the finalists will go on to compete for a Merit Scholar® title and portion of the National Merit Scholarship worth more than $32 million.

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More than 22,000 high schools nationwide and about 1.5 million juniors entered the 2013 competition, which awards the honors based on “exceptional academic ability”, and “potential for success in rigorous college studies” the organization said in a statement.

If you have a child who attends a private school and lives in Cupertino and is not on this list, please send the pertinent information to Anne Ernst at anne.ernst@patch.com.

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Schools and student names are listed in alphabetical order:

BELLARMINE PREP

Aditya Mukund

CUPERTINO HIGH SCHOOL

Chang, Charlotte

Chen, Julie

Chian, Lucy L.

Chu, Kevin

Datta, Ganesh

Hemmady, Anand S.

Liu, Paige

Lou, Carolyn E.

Shahani, Aanchal

Suresh, Iyal M.

Wang, Emily

Wang, Shenting I.

Ying, Chris T.

HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL

Alexander, Katherine M.

Chen, Miranda

Ferrari, Matthew R.

Gao, Jing-Lun

Gizdarski, Konstantin E.

Gopalakrishnan, Monisha

Ho, Joanna

Lai, Tanner

Lin, Harrison L.

Sochor, Daniel

Zeng, Brian

Zhang, Xijing

Zhao, Darren

Zhou, Alice

LYNBROOK HIGH SCHOOL

Askari, Syed

Auroprem, Ramya

Axelrod, Brian M.

Chai, Shannon

Chen, Howard H.

Chen, Yunqing

Cheng, Marshall Y.

Chou, Molly

Delforge-Melia, Juliette

Dhanushkodi, Nitya

Fan, Jessica C.

Fang, Shirley L.

Fatehpuria, Abhishek

Feng, Siyuan

Flamant, Etienne

Ge, Albert

Hahm, Stephanie

Ho, Johnny

Hong, Irene

Hsu, Irene

Hudepohl, Jacqueline P.

Jen, Yiming M.

Jeong, Hyo Jin

Jin, Julie

Jun, Haein

Jun, Jiwon

Kamath, Thejas P.

Khare, Eesha

Kim, Jessica M.

Kolosova, Ksenia O.

Lee, Alex Q.

Lee, Joohyun

Lei, Wenkai

Lin, Christina Y.

Lou, Derek

Luan, Jeffrey R.

Luo, Landi

Manimaran, Arjun

Manjunath, Chinmayi

Mendonca, Keegan V.

Ouyang, Karen H.

Patil, Pranay

Shu, Brian P.

Sun, Daniel J.

Takahashi, Jack R.

Tan, Clarence X.

Tan, Kimberly

Tsai, Andrew S.

Uesato, Jonathan K.

Wang, Weian

Wu, Kevin T.

Xu, Albert Y.

Xu, Eric C.

Xu, Victor

Xue, Evan

Yoon, Meesun

Yuan, Aaron

Zhang, Emily

Zhang, Hongrui

Zhong, Yihua

Zhu, Yuqing

MONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL

Chen, Lena W.

Cheng, Alan Y.

Ding, Ashley X.

Ding, Evelyn J.

Gandhi, Apurv

Ganpule, Aditi V.

Garg, Namrata

Gila, Barak

Guo, Kevin

Gurumoorthi, Manasa

He, John

Hu, Andrew A.

Hua, Andrew L.

Huang, Catalina H.

Huang, Spencer Y.

Jiang, Bowen

Jiang, Richard H.

Kavuri, Sasikanth R.

Koe, Jessica S.

Lee, Shin Hoo

Leung, Frieda I.

Lin, Christie

Lin, Eric T.

Lin, Vicky

Ma, Christopher Y.

Mao, Cynthia

Marathe, Vikrant A.

Mullapudi, Sowmya S.

Nizam, Syed S.

Patil, Anushka B.

Patil, Mihir

Raghuram, Vivek S.

Reddy, Maya P.

Singh, Alok

Song, Christopher I.

Srinivas, Shanmukha

Tsai, Michelle Y.

Venkatakrishnan, Yashvant

Wang, Angela

Wang, Calley S.

Wang, Stephanie T.

Wang, Vincent

Wong, Kathryn S.

Xu, Larry

Ye, Karen E.

Yuan, Ted A.

Zhang, Grace Z.

Zhang, Victor S.

Zhang, William

Zhu, Yanbing


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