More than 100 of the 16,000 students nationwide named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are from non-Atlanta parts of Fulton County.
According to the numbers released Wednesday, there are 124 high school seniors in Fulton.
They are are in the running for the 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million set to be offered in spring.
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.
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The pool of national semifinalists amounts to less than 1% of American high school seniors, the group said. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to how many seniors graduated from that state compared to the rest of the nation.
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.
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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 are set to be notified in February.
Here are the semifinalists:
ALPHARETTA (16 students in total)
Alpharetta High School (14)
Bhardwaj, Palin
Bokil, Suchetas
Colburn, Olivia M.
Gangal, Madhura
Jaganathan, Nikhil
Joshi, Priya
Karadsheh, Dara
Kasibhatla, Varun
Kosaraju, Harika
Lung, Vivia
Plimpton, Zachary T.
Sastry, Abhayasimha
Xie, Kaci
Zhao, Kevin
Fulton Science Academy (1)
Furniss, Charlie R.
Homeschool (1)
Oladeji, Adunola E.
COLLEGE PARK
WOODWARD ACADEMY (4)
Daly, William M.
Ghanate, Nishita
Gore, William R.
Wombough, Samuel A.
JOHNS CREEK (69 in total)
Chattahoochee High School (12)
Amaro, Brian
Ames, Alexandra
Armstrong, Jillian
Chung, Anna
Dutta, Adiva
Kim, Hyoungjin
Kwon, Yoonseo
Liu, Charles
Peramanu, Suraj
Seo, Jaehun
Sharman, Lindsay
Zhou, Bryan
Johns Creek High School (15)
Buntin, Catherine L.
Buntin, Elizabeth Z.
Chen, Andrew A.
Chen, Catherine G.
Cheng, Christine L.
Dong, Yuzhu
Hong, Ashley Y.
Hu, Bradley
McPherson, Jenna H.
Nagula, Harshita R.
Parker, Luca N.
Qi, Heng
Shen, Jeffery J.
Xue, Ivy
Zendehrouh Kermani, Kian
William and Reed Academy (1)
Fowler, Faith M.
Northview High School (41)
Addis, Abdumamad
Atluri, Venkata
Birla, Aditya
Chen, Joanna
Chung, Sihyun
Desai, Atharva
Dhillon, Aditi
Gong, Melinda
Her, Sarah
James, Christina
Jung, Jun-Ha
Kang, Randy
Karanwal, Ishan
Kim, Junkyu
Manne, Anish K.
Martinez, Daniel
Mohan, Maitraiyee
Nadella, Aneet
Ning, Haotong
O'Neal, Sean
Pan, Rory
Patil, Akshay
Potula, Kapish
Rallabhandy, Aishwarya J.
Rao, Neha M.
Sachde, Adit R.
Sang, Cherie J.
Smith, Arjun
So, Dylan
Sydow, Mira
Tang, Steve
Virani, Arish
Wang, Andrew
Wang, Patrick
Xie, Samuel
Xu, Amy
Yang, Ian
Yuan, Chelsea
Zhang, Albert
Zhang, Megan
Zou, Jason
MILTON (18 in total)
Cambridge High School (8)
Baglodi, Nishant
Jones, Darcy
Kang, Rachael
May, Taelyn
Olejniczak, Joseph J.
Sechrest, Ashley
White, Ethan
White, Jacob
Milton High School (10)
Kochhar, Neil
Kumar, Shreya
Lin, Nicole
Maan, Saad
Mohapatra, Aryaman
Ortwein, Ryan
Patel, Zoey
Ramesh, Shreya
Salyer, Alexandra T.
Wang, Christina
ROSWELL (13 students in total)
Blesse Trinity Catholic High School (2)
DeWalt, Jamie L.
Thompson, Matthew C.
Centennial High School (3)
Favorito, Crystal
Floyd, Eleri
Htay, Mabel
Roswell High School (8)
Ashmead, Maclaen
Esposito, Edward
Firoj, Saima
Frank, Noah
Gandhi, Rohan
Li, Zekun L.
Singer, Samantha
Vrolijk, Robert
SANDY SPRINGS (4 in total)
Homeschool (1)
Brons, Edmund D.
North Springs Charter High School (3)
Goldberg, Ethan
Pearlman, Aviel E.
Speck, Joline
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