Nearly 90 high school seniors in Cobb County have been named semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
These 88 Cobb, Marietta City and private school students are among the 16,000 students across the country who’ve earned the chance to compete for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million set to be offered in the spring, the program said.
In all, 1.5 million juniors from about 21,000 high schools entered the National Merit program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT, or PSAT.
The group said the number of national semifinalists amounts to less than 1% percent of all high school seniors across the country. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to how many seniors graduated from that state compared to the rest of the nation.
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A semifinalist must have an “outstanding academic record throughout high school” along with a recommendation by a high school official, an essay and high SAT/ACT scores.
Nearly 90% are expected to move to the finalist round, which requires a detailed scholarship application with their academic record, participation in school/community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors/awards received. Finalists will be notified of their status in February.
Here are the Cobb County semifinalists:
Campbell High School
Dorr-Kapczynski, Natasha
Hong, Samantha A.
Jaafar, Youssef
Jaramillo Celis, Isabella
Lin, Damon
Rowe, Eden O.
Harrison High School
Delfausse, Leah M.
Enow, Bessem
Hillgrove High School
Montoya, Evan R.
Smith, Andrew J.
Kennesaw Mountain High School
Hester, Braden R.
Johnson, Jayden R.
Omoma, Sasamon B.
Patel, Evani N.
Regier, Elaina R.
Lassiter High School
Froula, Eleanor B.
Halloran, Claire M.
Kramer, Joseph P.
Levitt, Gabrielle P.
Mitchell, Anna K.
Pereira, Catherine L.
Tegethoff, Paul H.
Marietta High School
Askins, Kailyn
Baglivio, Oscar D.
Goodwin, Rebecca R.
Mount Paran Christian School
Vaughan, Alison A.
North Cobb Christian School
Baek, Seungju
Durity, Aidan R.
Pope High School
Burris, Ada R.
Harry, Sanjeet C.
Myers, Andrew M.
Pivnik, Yelizaveta I.
Sprayberry High School
Misra, Reilly S.
The Walker School
Carruth, Karoline
Haynes, Andrew D.
Kaczynski, Erika A.
Sheikh, Shanzeh M.
Wetherington, Kalieann I.
White, Lauren R.
Walton High School
Bae, Chanwoo
Bass, Jordan
Berger, Alec
Cameron, Andrew
Catanese, Daniel
Chareddy, Anjali
Chiles, Taylor
de Cleir, Sinead
Denning, Judith
Dierker, Julia
Emerine, Russell
Jacobson, Reagan
Kemelmakher, Guy
Lakdawala, Aleem
Li, Andrew
Lu, Viviana
Manikkoth, Nidhi
McKinley, Kara
More, Rushil
Newton, Russell
Pitts, Erik
Raja, Neeraj
Rajan, Anant
Rajbhandari, Pranav
Rieck, Aaron
Saligrama, Arvind
Shabazaz, Tara
Simon, Eric
Sun, Bill
Thomas-Wilkinson, Shiloh
Tong, Qilin
Uppalapati, Ria
Vemana, Akshin
Venkatesan, Tharun
Zhang, Madeline
Zibran, Zaim
Wheeler High School
Abunyewa, Ann-Marie A.
Alapati, Kruthik S.
Autera, Ava R.
Bishop, Charlie E.
Chen, Patrick G.
Cullinan, Alessa L.
Jewel, Rose
Kent, Brian
Mason, Emma G.
Nedumpurath, Pranav J.
Payne, Jeremy L.
Wan, Morris I.
Yao, Eric W.
