21 Northshore Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to the 21 Northshore seniors who were named National Merit semifinalists this fall. Nationally, about 16,000 students were named semifinalists this year. 

Bothell High School

Finnian Kemper, Nihanth Tatikonda

Inglemoor High School

Nathan Coy, Vera Fang, Jadie Hwang, Anastasia Makarevich, Kellen Trummer, Elsa Wang, Luke Zeng, Hankang Zhou

North Creek High School

Sacchit Boddapati, Jiya Gupta, Sahana Ramkumar, Manavi Shukla, Aditi Singh, Ryan Wang, Doris Xiong

Woodinville High School

Aiden Kim, Tim Lopez, Savannah Pengelly

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,700 National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $24 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 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2025 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.

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