120 students named as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists in Fulton County

The 2017 National Merit Scholarship program is underway and Fulton County has 120 students from its school system listed as semifinalists.

Fulton County Schools recently announced the list of high school seniors who will continue on to the national competition, vying for one of 7,500 Merit scholarships — all worth a total of $33 million.

Northview High School had the most seniors recognized as semifinalists with 32. Chattahoochee and Johns Creek high schools followed behind Northview with 23 and 21 students respectively.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation selected area high school seniors as semifinalists based on their PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test results. To move on to the final round, students must maintain “high academic performance,” collect recommendations, earn high SAT scores and complete a detailed scholarship application.

See below the list of National Merit semifinalists from Fulton County Schools:

Alpharetta High School

• Veronica R. Bian
• Megha Desai
• Luke T. Heyerdahl
• Brian Hu
• Izaan Kamal
• Rohan Kansara
• Katelyn Lawrence
• Philip Paul N. Mantchev
• Anav Mittal
• Nitish Sood
• Anthony Zhang
• Jeffrey Zhang

Cambridge High School

• Cameron L. Chong
• Savannah C. Farr
• Madison A. Landis
• Jason X. Yang

Centennial High School

• Karl A. Jacobi
• Kyle Qian
• Justin Simard
• Caroline Wittschen

Chattahoochee High School

• John E. Arndt
• Amanda Y. Bao
• Sarah Chen
• Aditi Choudhury
• Christopher J. Chung
• Rachel Fitzgerald
• Ananya Ghose
• Matthew Green
• Saitej Guttikonda
• Pallavi K. Kenkare
• Dong M. Kim
• Abhinav Kumar
• Sofie K. Lehtikoski
• Rahil Manji
• Kalen Patton
• Ryan Peng
• Joaquin Ramas
• Ashwin Ramaswami
• Michael Sawchuk
• Harry D. Traub
• Eric Wang
• Sophia Yan
• Tigerwin Yang

Johns Creek High School

• Noor Abi Rached
• Madeleine E. Blair
• Brennen M. Blotner
• Daniel A. Bodea
• Cassie Chen
• Adam D. Davault
• Yasheen Gao
• Shalin G. Kapil
• Woohyun Kim
• Andrew W. Liang
• Achyutha Abhishek Mallemadugula
• Amy W. Mu
• Katherine Shin
• Christopher R. Sullivan
• Abhinav L. Tirath
• Anshul Tusnial
• Akhil R. Vaidya
• Jamie Wang
• Vivian L. Wang
• Michelle Yang
• Koosha Zendehrouh Kermani

Milton High School

• Roopsha Bandopadhyay
• Grace Cassidy
• Aditi Dhume
• Maya Eashwaran
• Niva Matcha
• Ankita P. Mohapatra
• Amulya Noone
• Gina Piazza
• Kate L. Reynolds
• Andrew D. Sauer

North Springs Charter High School

• Nathaniel L. Buffington
• Kevin A. Hopper
• Daniel A. Kane

Northview High School

• Ruth Austin
• Pragya Banerjee
• Ashna Bhardwaj
• Charles Cheng
• Jasmin Gao
• Felicia Guo
• Amy L. Jiang
• Minji Kim
• Judy Li
• Michelle Liu
• Calista Mei
• Prahathishree Mohanavelu
• Evan Moy
• Thomas Moy
• Soumil Nariani
• Sally L. Pan
• Keshav S. Pandiri
• Sidharth S. Potdar
• Nithin Raghavan
• Tarun Ramesh
• Omkara P. Rao
• Yashi Sanghvi
• Leonardo Tang
• Kavya Vrid
• Catherine Yang
• Starr T. Yang
• Amanda W. Zhang
• Bill W. Zhang
• Joseph Zhang
• Irene Zhou
• Patrick Zhou
• Raymond Zhu

Riverwood International Charter School

• Jeremy E. Colton
• Kendall Laws

Roswell High School

• Mary B. Bangs
• Ethan C. Cain
• Justin M. Cozzone
• Kyle M. Cozzone
• James K. Lewis
• Cynthia D. Roby
• Lily N. Rubin
• Davis Tardif

Westlake High School

• Elysia M. Tillman