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.
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.
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
