Of the 16,000 semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship program about 15,000 of those students advanced to the finalist level. The names of the students with Cupertino connections are listed below.
More than half of the finalists will go on to compete for a Merit Scholar title and a portion of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) worth more than $32 million. Beginning in March the program will notify winners of the three types of scholarships: National Merit $2500 Scholarships; corporate-sponsored scholarships; and college-sponsored scholarships.
In April, May, and July, NMSC will release names of Merit Scholar designees to news media for public announcement.
Also in March 1,300 Special Scholarship recipients will be announced. Those students, who are not among the finalists, will be winners of corporate-sponsored scholarships. The sponsors themselves provide the information to news media.
About 1.5 million juniors at more than 22,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2013 competition. Honors for the award are based on “exceptional academic ability”, and “potential for success in rigorous college studies” the organization said in a statement.
*An asterisk indicated the student's name was added after the original publication of this article.
ST. FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN VIEW
*Carolyn McGuire
BELLARMINE PREP - SAN JOSE
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
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.
Sinha, Aakanksha
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
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
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 Cupertino Patch editor Anne Ernst at anne.ernst@patch.com.
