Here is the list of the National Merit Semifinalists for 2027 from Orange County that was released Wednesday, Sept. 9, by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. They are among the approximately 16,000 students nationally – less than 1% of U.S. seniors – who earned the designation.

The semifinalists qualified based on their scores on the Preliminary SAT. About 95 percent are expected to attain finalist standing on the strength of an application detailing academic performance, participation in activities, employment and leadership.

About half the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, to be announced in the spring.

The semifinalists are listed by city and then school.

ALISO VIEJO

ALISO NIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL

Chan, Alison
Patel, Rohan

ANAHEIM

CANYON HIGH SCHOOL

Fernandez, Aidan
Lim, Aaron

ESPERANZA HIGH SCHOOL

FAIRMONT PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Long, Yun
Lunde, Elijah
Roh, Kayla
Shen, Yulin
Sun, Sidney

SERVITE HIGH SCHOOL

CYPRESS

CYPRESS HIGH SCHOOL

Lee, Elizabeth S.
Pham, Jonathan H.
Shin, Eric H.

OXFORD ACADEMY

Chang, Jason
Chau, Han G.
Lee, Audrey K.
Lee, Daniel J.
Lee, William H.
Nguyen, Nicholas D.
Park, Celine
Yamachika, Yuri L.
Zhao-Ye, Alexander S.

DANA POINT

DANA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

FOUNTAIN VALLEY

FOUNTAIN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

Dinh, Christopher
Mehta, Mishri
Nguyen, Cayden
Phan, Dawson
Tran, Valerie

FULLERTON

FULLERTON UNION HIGH SCHOOL

SUNNY HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

Hwang, Ellen
Kim, Oliver
Lee, Chaelin
Luo, Kevin
Moon, Benny
Ramirez, Ethan
Wang, Brandon
Yun, Leonardo

TROY HIGH SCHOOL

Ardaya, Dylan
Chen, Ian J.
Chen, Katie
Choi, Jeongmin
Dang, Jayden T.
Donn, Audrey
Fan, Claire H.
Feng, Chenghao
Gong, Qian
Gupta, Lakshya
Hoang, Matthew D.
Hong, Kathleen
Huang, Hanyu
Huang, Joyce
Jain, Rohan
Kim, Elise
Kim, Jeremy J.
Kim, Joshua J.
Li, Yongjing
Murzello, Shaun S.
Park, Sunghyun D.
Pham, Katelyn N.
Rao, Kush D.
Shah, Shaan
Tan, Joshua
Truong, Kaileo J.
Wang, Claire W.
Wang, Sydney H.
Xiong, Yiyan
Yao, Xuanzhe
Yoo, Caleb
Zhu, Liran
Zhu, Ruilin

GARDEN GROVE

SANTIAGO HIGH SCHOOL

HUNTINGTON BEACH

EDISON HIGH SCHOOL

HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL

Lam-Chan, Logan
Nguyen, Aiden
Shaiyen, Zane M.

IRVINE

ARNOLD O. BECKMAN HIGH SCHOOL

Anesi, Brian A.
Bui, Jill A.
Bunya, Braeden J.
Chen, Ryan
Chia, Claire W.
Choi, Heechan
Hsia, Emily Y.
Hsieh, Lucas B.
Khan, Aminah M.
Kim, Ian
Kim, James M.
Lu, Caleb J.
Lu, Irene J.
Patel, Ayush P.
Shah, Sophie S.
Wong, Chloe P.
Yakovlev, Alexander M.

CREAN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL

Akrawi, Brielle
Choi, Cosette
Lim, Josephine
Zhou, Sophia

IRVINE HIGH SCHOOL

Catanus, Charissa F.
Chuang, Jaz
Hoggan, Graham B.
Kim, Taeho
Lee, Cara Y.
Ning, Houcheng
Shah, Shreeya J.
Sy, Vera L.
Yang, Callie J.

NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Bae, Hannah N.
Berryman, Olivia G.
Bhattacharyya, Ishaan
Chen, Tyler K.
Cheng, Madeline S.
Dee, Brandon L.
Hong, William B.
Jain, Alisha
Koo, Hyungmo
Lai, Sierra L.
Liu, Jack J.
Nguyen, Dan Thanh
Pravin Mahil Kumar, Davina
Sachdeva, Sejal
Thirupathi, Vidhur S.
Uuganbayar, Indra
Yang, Isabelle Y.
Yang, Lilin

PORTOLA HIGH SCHOOL

Ahn, Taegyu
Akula, Arya
Chang, Zoe
Chen, Katelyn M.
Holland, Francesca Y.
Kim, Joanne T.
Low, Zephyr
Pan, Jiayi
Raj, Prathmesh
Sultan, Ehan
Tang, Lucas S.
Vankamamidi, Pranav
Wu, Bowen
Wu, Sophie
Yoon, Chanoo
Yu, Angela

UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL

Ashar, Niyam G.
Cao, Jiahao
Chen, Timothy
Cheung, Marcus
Dym, Isabella
Huang, Audrey C.
Huang, Dominic
Jain-Rastogi, Dhruv
Jessen, Hector M.
Jian, Michael C.
Kamat, Shloke S.
Ke, Hannah
Ke, Jenna
Lee, Suho
Pabbaraju, Hemanth
Pham, Khang M.
Sardar, Krrish Singh
Shih, Emily P.
Wu, Neel T.
Wu, Youjia
Zheng, David C.
Zhou, Chenyue
Zhu, Daniel

WOODBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

Ahn, Thomas Y.
Ikarashi, Hikaru
Kim, Yong Han
Pandian, Nivedha S.
Ricks, Olivia
Xu, Lois L.

LAGUNA BEACH

LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL

LAKE FOREST

EL TORO HIGH SCHOOL

LOS ALAMITOS

LOS ALAMITOS HIGH SCHOOL

Bai, Asher P.
Bai, Kyler P.
Harman, Hossegor T.
Ly, Julianne S.

MISSION VIEJO

MISSION VIEJO HIGH SCHOOL

Sandefur, Liam
Trinh, Lam T.

TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

NEWPORT BEACH

CORONA DEL MAR HIGH SCHOOL

SAGE HILL SCHOOL

Brar, Nicole
Chen, Chelsea
Du, Gavin
Huang, Isabella
Hubbard, Zack
Kang, Jiayu
Keirstead, Connor
Kong, Alexander
Lee, Doyoung
Lee, Maxwell
Li, Yuheng
Lin, Jack
Liu, Justin
Prokopuk, Alexis
Sha, Jindong
Song, Natalie
Walbridge, Andrew
Wen, Alexander
Yeh, Ellie
Zhang, Yutong
Zhou, Jonathan

PLACENTIA

VALENCIA HIGH SCHOOL

Chang, Eric
De Silva, Nika
Kim, Grace
Lee, Dahee

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA

SANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Baren, Miles
Choi, Ethan
Hickson, Reid
Ho, Stone
Park, Sangmin

TESORO HIGH SCHOOL

Gettman, Kristin
Huang, Yihao
Huo, Huiran
Pushadapu, Akhil

SAN CLEMENTE

SAN CLEMENTE HIGH SCHOOL

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO

CALIFORNIA ONLINE SCHOOLS

JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Clarke, Naomi
Mossman, Caden T.
Taylor, Cayden P.
Wadman, Daniel P.

SAN JUAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

Han, Jaden H.
Nguyen, Celine D.
Yang, Hajoon

ST. MARGARET’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

Bredall, Riley
Kothari, Kenji
Liao, Heng-Yi

SANTA ANA

FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL

Kaye, Amy H.
Tantamjarik, Chloe B.

ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Choi, Elise
Diwan, Armaan
Hong, Henry
Kim, Jayden
Kim, Zachary
Ly-Pang, Sophie
Ngo, Adyson
Nguyen, Lindsay
Phanco, Tyler
Sharma, Aryan
Song, Angela
Tran, Sterling

WESTMINSTER

LA QUINTA HIGH SCHOOL

Le, Annie
Pham, Quynh-Anh B.

WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL

YORBA LINDA

HOMESCHOOL / ONLINE SCHOOL

YORBA LINDA HIGH SCHOOL