Update: After first receiving an incomplete list from the Cobb County School District, this story now correctly reflects the county’s semifinalists.
One Cobb County school has 33 new reasons to brag.
That's how many Walton High School students were just named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists of the county's 85 total honorees.
Three are from The Walker School, a private school in Marietta, and the rest are from the Cobb County School District.
The district announced on Thursday that the seniors were some of the 16,000 semifinalists across the nation.
Cobb schools said that the 33 at Walton, the newest high school building in the district, puts it at second place in Georgia for most semifinalists.
About 1.6 million juniors from more than 22,000 high schools took the qualifying test. The semifinalists were picked from the highest-scoring students in each state.
To become a finalist, students have to submit an application including their academic record, an endorsement from a school official and an essay.
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About 7,500 scholarships will be given out, for a total of $32 million.
There are different kinds of National Merit scholarships — some sponsored by colleges, others by companies — that will be announced at different times throughout 2018.
Below are the 85 Cobb semifinalists.
Allatoona High School
James C. Matalenas
Kennesaw Mountain High School
Daniel H. Chu
Mary K. Gale
Hannah K. Gregory
Gwendolyn B. Henry
Meredith B. Johns
Erin E. Morrow
Kathleen M. Tanner
Kell High School
Mitchell Q. Gacuzana
Lassiter High School
Radhesh D. Amin
Christopher L. Butcher
Christopher W. Clark
Justin Q. Coleman
Jerry J. Harrison
Virginia J. Langmaid
Seth A. Nye
Anastasia A. Onyango
Oliver J. Park
Samuel R. Quiroz
Brenna Salkin
Kyle T. Waldner
Seo Y. Yoo
Pope High School
Francesca Burke
Ellie R. Coe
Caleigh A. Cullinan
Suzanna A. Jiwani
David A. Reingold
Walton High School
Kento M. Arendt
Jiwoo Bae
Harper S. Barbaree
Eli M. Burstiner
Carlson L. Chiles
Daniel Cho
Andrew H. Chyong
Clayton J. Eshleman
Catherine Fan
Kaylynn L. Hiller
Daniel C. Hudadoff
John C. Hults
Elaine S. Hwang
Bita Jadali
Tiffany N. Jeng
Gina J. Kang
Laura K. Key
Hyunjin A. Kim
Lucas Y. Kuan
Jayanth Kumar
Luke H. Lavin
Eileen W. Law
Cecelia I. Lu
Harsimran Minhas
Jacob H. Moore
Robert A. Morgan
Siddharth J. Natham
Wesley D. Nourachi
Adarshini Raja
Akshat V. Sistla
Wendy Yao
Wooju R. Yim
Grace K. Zhou
Hillgrove High School
Emma L. Barron
Caleb T. Partin
Campbell High School
Parrish L. Studebaker
Wheeler High School
Andrew R. Benecchi
Shawn M. Doss
Chibuzor I. Eduzor
Kevin Fan
Rohan R. George
Nikhil I. Jindia
Dhananjay Khazanchi
Jeet Kothari
Erin Z. Leydon
Alexander Madison
Melam Master
Colin T. McMillen
Anusha Moudgal
Arvin T. Poddar
Suyash Rajesh
Amithav B. Reddy
Michael A. Shible
Sofiya Vyshnya
Charles A. Wood
The Walker School
Chloe A. Champagne
Lauren N. Fischer
Brett D. Morrison
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