16 Northshore Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to the 16 Northshore seniors who were named National Merit semifinalists this fall. Nationally, about 16,000 students were named semifinalists this year. 

 

Bothell High School

Victoria Kraeva, Aviral Mishra, Kavya Tayal

 

Inglemoor High School

Taiyo Oishi, Petros Petrosyan, Emery Schultz, Franklyn Xue, Annabelle Yip, Joshua Zou

 

 

North Creek High School

Jeremy Antone, Nitya Kansal

 

Woodinville High School

Skylar Bogner, Eliza Dean, Arpit Garg, Angel Shibu, Bennie Storey

 

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,930 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

High school seniors entered the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Along with the semifinalists, National Merit honors additional high-scoring students as Commended Students. Although Commended Students will not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some may be candidates for Special Scholarships offered by corporate sponsors. From Northshore high schools, the following 88 students have been named Commended Students:

 

Bothell High School

Nathan Chiu, Anishka Gogoi, Arunim Goyal, Rishi Kompelli, Jonathan Long, Pranav Mullakkal, Akshay Mruthy, Meadow Reiber, Cliff Sun

 

Inglemoor High School

Nina Atkinson, Lilian Berrios, Anton Borisov, Ellina Chang, Nicole Chen, Elaina Dumaliang, Brady Fitch, Sam Hiller, Iris Huang, Varshni Iyer, Liam Kugler, Clara Lundberg, Oliver McElwee, Nareshatama Nainggolan, Shota Ogushi, Richa Roy, Bill Song, Paige Stewart, Callie Tse, Xander Tyler, Anoushka Vyas, Gaby Wang, Amy Zhao

 

Innovation Lab High School

Alex Tang

 

North Creek High School

Garv Agarwala, Naman Agrawal, Niteesh AJ, Ibrahim Ansari, Ritvik Bansal, Dhruv Charugundla, Yashaswi Gatla, Aadhya Goyal, Mahima Iyer, Rithin Karthik, Matthew Kokhan, Noah Lee, Jayden Lin, Indu Lingala, Eric Luo, Drew Martin, Tasmia Minhaz, Prisha Mundra, Esme Owen, Anika Parekh, Pradyun Pinapala, Sirisha Pyakurel, Aanya Rawal, Asmitha Samuthrakumar, Riley Sanderson, Akal Singh, Megan Song, Kirthana Srinivasan, Ayla Tamber, Jack Trepp, Shruti Vinodkumar, Benjamin Watts, Isabella Yu

 

Woodinville High School

Kieran Bayne, William Bowker, Nik Brusilovski, Rik Brusilovski, Edan Cohen, Torsten Dahlke, Mackenzie Debelak, Molly Hakkarainen, Jyotsna Jayasuryan, Wyatt Kindred, Varin Kulkarni, Jordan Medd, Ian Miller, Aadhavan Nandakumar, Vesna Parthiban, Alina Popovciuc, Maxim Rogozhkin, John Skelton, Ian Vache, Rui Yamasaki, Andrea Yandell, Teagan Yore

To learn more, visit National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s website.