26 Northshore Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to the 26 Northshore seniors who were named National Merit semifinalists this fall. Nationally, about 16,000 students were named semifinalists this year. 

 

Bothell High School

Jack Gu, Saksham Singh, Saanvi Subramanian

Inglemoor High School

Christopher Cao, Derek Chang, Kairui Cheng, Sanika Datar, Matthew Epshtein, William He, Claire Meng, Monica Spassova, Vaishnavi Subramanian, Weiju Wang
 

Innovation Lab High School

Qiyuan Song

 

North Creek High School

Joseph Boschee, Caitlyn Chang, Tien-Chern Woon

 

Woodinville High School

Dan Baerwald, Bianca Bensen, Calder Davis, Cindy Liang, Jishnu Mehta, Ryan Pascual, Elisa Reed, Daniel Reinholdtsen, Ava Wahl

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 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 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 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 108 students have been named Commended Students:

Bothell High School

Ryan Agate, Jackson Blakeney, Rahi Dhoke, Kaustubh Grama, Shivani Kulandaivel, Pherell Layanto, Emily Long, Apurv Srirangapatnam, Grant Trier, Aiden Whitlock, Lucas Wong

Inglemoor High School

Ishitha Arekapudi, Hannah Beaver, Amanda Cai, Franklin Carter, Micah Chan, Emma Choi, Samuel Hurchalla, Jacqueline Jones, Shirene Khandpur, Sriakhila Lankalapalli, Grace Mills, Rayan Rizwan, Zane Rubenstein, Morgan Schmitter, Daniel Su, Julia Swiatek, Oliver Thornton, Elizabeth Wang, Eric Wang, Tatev Yeghiazaryan

North Creek High School

Arushi Chigurupati, Smilangi Dasari, Kaustub Dattkaya, Mahir Emran, Audrey Han, Wyatt Hurey, Israfel Ibrahim, Shaezel Khan, Joshua Koh, Shravya Kotha, Archini Koushik, Tarun Krishnamurthy, Tarun Naveen, Anish Pamuru, Srisha Prasanna, Alexander Samuel, Anvitha Suresh, Shannon Victor, Max Wang

Woodinville High School

Ria Agarwal, Adrian Avadanei, Naren Bala, Kevin Check, Annika Colman, Thomas Cooper, Devon Gordon, Niobe Guilanians, Jiya Joshi, Tyler Kennedy, William Klein, Daniel Mun, Rithvik Palepu, Raghav Puri, Joy Song, Ishaan Srivastava, Ani Tamhankar, Audrey Tudor, Yeehahn Wang-Liu

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