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 \u2013 less than 1% of U.S. seniors \u2013 who earned the designation.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
About half the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, to be announced in the spring.<\/p>\n
The semifinalists are listed by city and then school.<\/p>\n
ALISO VIEJO<\/p>\n
ALISO NIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Chan, Alison
\nPatel, Rohan<\/p>\n
ANAHEIM<\/p>\n
CANYON HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Fernandez, Aidan
\nLim, Aaron<\/p>\n
ESPERANZA HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
FAIRMONT PREPARATORY ACADEMY<\/p>\n
Long, Yun
\nLunde, Elijah
\nRoh, Kayla
\nShen, Yulin
\nSun, Sidney<\/p>\n
SERVITE HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
CYPRESS<\/p>\n
CYPRESS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Lee, Elizabeth S.
\nPham, Jonathan H.
\nShin, Eric H.<\/p>\n
OXFORD ACADEMY<\/p>\n
Chang, Jason
\nChau, Han G.
\nLee, Audrey K.
\nLee, Daniel J.
\nLee, William H.
\nNguyen, Nicholas D.
\nPark, Celine
\nYamachika, Yuri L.
\nZhao-Ye, Alexander S.<\/p>\n
DANA POINT<\/p>\n
DANA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
FOUNTAIN VALLEY<\/p>\n
FOUNTAIN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Dinh, Christopher
\nMehta, Mishri
\nNguyen, Cayden
\nPhan, Dawson
\nTran, Valerie<\/p>\n
FULLERTON<\/p>\n
FULLERTON UNION HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
SUNNY HILLS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Hwang, Ellen
\nKim, Oliver
\nLee, Chaelin
\nLuo, Kevin
\nMoon, Benny
\nRamirez, Ethan
\nWang, Brandon
\nYun, Leonardo<\/p>\n
TROY HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Ardaya, Dylan
\nChen, Ian J.
\nChen, Katie
\nChoi, Jeongmin
\nDang, Jayden T.
\nDonn, Audrey
\nFan, Claire H.
\nFeng, Chenghao
\nGong, Qian
\nGupta, Lakshya
\nHoang, Matthew D.
\nHong, Kathleen
\nHuang, Hanyu
\nHuang, Joyce
\nJain, Rohan
\nKim, Elise
\nKim, Jeremy J.
\nKim, Joshua J.
\nLi, Yongjing
\nMurzello, Shaun S.
\nPark, Sunghyun D.
\nPham, Katelyn N.
\nRao, Kush D.
\nShah, Shaan
\nTan, Joshua
\nTruong, Kaileo J.
\nWang, Claire W.
\nWang, Sydney H.
\nXiong, Yiyan
\nYao, Xuanzhe
\nYoo, Caleb
\nZhu, Liran
\nZhu, Ruilin<\/p>\n
GARDEN GROVE<\/p>\n
SANTIAGO HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
HUNTINGTON BEACH<\/p>\n
EDISON HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Lam-Chan, Logan
\nNguyen, Aiden
\nShaiyen, Zane M.<\/p>\n
IRVINE<\/p>\n
ARNOLD O. BECKMAN HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Anesi, Brian A.
\nBui, Jill A.
\nBunya, Braeden J.
\nChen, Ryan
\nChia, Claire W.
\nChoi, Heechan
\nHsia, Emily Y.
\nHsieh, Lucas B.
\nKhan, Aminah M.
\nKim, Ian
\nKim, James M.
\nLu, Caleb J.
\nLu, Irene J.
\nPatel, Ayush P.
\nShah, Sophie S.
\nWong, Chloe P.
\nYakovlev, Alexander M.<\/p>\n
CREAN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Akrawi, Brielle
\nChoi, Cosette
\nLim, Josephine
\nZhou, Sophia<\/p>\n
IRVINE HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Catanus, Charissa F.
\nChuang, Jaz
\nHoggan, Graham B.
\nKim, Taeho
\nLee, Cara Y.
\nNing, Houcheng
\nShah, Shreeya J.
\nSy, Vera L.
\nYang, Callie J.<\/p>\n
NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Bae, Hannah N.
\nBerryman, Olivia G.
\nBhattacharyya, Ishaan
\nChen, Tyler K.
\nCheng, Madeline S.
\nDee, Brandon L.
\nHong, William B.
\nJain, Alisha
\nKoo, Hyungmo
\nLai, Sierra L.
\nLiu, Jack J.
\nNguyen, Dan Thanh
\nPravin Mahil Kumar, Davina
\nSachdeva, Sejal
\nThirupathi, Vidhur S.
\nUuganbayar, Indra
\nYang, Isabelle Y.
\nYang, Lilin<\/p>\n
PORTOLA HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Ahn, Taegyu
\nAkula, Arya
\nChang, Zoe
\nChen, Katelyn M.
\nHolland, Francesca Y.
\nKim, Joanne T.
\nLow, Zephyr
\nPan, Jiayi
\nRaj, Prathmesh
\nSultan, Ehan
\nTang, Lucas S.
\nVankamamidi, Pranav
\nWu, Bowen
\nWu, Sophie
\nYoon, Chanoo
\nYu, Angela<\/p>\n
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Ashar, Niyam G.
\nCao, Jiahao
\nChen, Timothy
\nCheung, Marcus
\nDym, Isabella
\nHuang, Audrey C.
\nHuang, Dominic
\nJain-Rastogi, Dhruv
\nJessen, Hector M.
\nJian, Michael C.
\nKamat, Shloke S.
\nKe, Hannah
\nKe, Jenna
\nLee, Suho
\nPabbaraju, Hemanth
\nPham, Khang M.
\nSardar, Krrish Singh
\nShih, Emily P.
\nWu, Neel T.
\nWu, Youjia
\nZheng, David C.
\nZhou, Chenyue
\nZhu, Daniel<\/p>\n
WOODBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Ahn, Thomas Y.
\nIkarashi, Hikaru
\nKim, Yong Han
\nPandian, Nivedha S.
\nRicks, Olivia
\nXu, Lois L.<\/p>\n
LAGUNA BEACH<\/p>\n
LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
LAKE FOREST<\/p>\n
EL TORO HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
LOS ALAMITOS<\/p>\n
LOS ALAMITOS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Bai, Asher P.
\nBai, Kyler P.
\nHarman, Hossegor T.
\nLy, Julianne S.<\/p>\n
MISSION VIEJO<\/p>\n
MISSION VIEJO HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Sandefur, Liam
\nTrinh, Lam T.<\/p>\n
TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
NEWPORT BEACH<\/p>\n
CORONA DEL MAR HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
SAGE HILL SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Brar, Nicole
\nChen, Chelsea
\nDu, Gavin
\nHuang, Isabella
\nHubbard, Zack
\nKang, Jiayu
\nKeirstead, Connor
\nKong, Alexander
\nLee, Doyoung
\nLee, Maxwell
\nLi, Yuheng
\nLin, Jack
\nLiu, Justin
\nProkopuk, Alexis
\nSha, Jindong
\nSong, Natalie
\nWalbridge, Andrew
\nWen, Alexander
\nYeh, Ellie
\nZhang, Yutong
\nZhou, Jonathan<\/p>\n
PLACENTIA<\/p>\n
VALENCIA HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Chang, Eric
\nDe Silva, Nika
\nKim, Grace
\nLee, Dahee<\/p>\n
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA<\/p>\n
SANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Baren, Miles
\nChoi, Ethan
\nHickson, Reid
\nHo, Stone
\nPark, Sangmin<\/p>\n
TESORO HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Gettman, Kristin
\nHuang, Yihao
\nHuo, Huiran
\nPushadapu, Akhil<\/p>\n
SAN CLEMENTE<\/p>\n
SAN CLEMENTE HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO<\/p>\n
CALIFORNIA ONLINE SCHOOLS<\/p>\n
JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Clarke, Naomi
\nMossman, Caden T.
\nTaylor, Cayden P.
\nWadman, Daniel P.<\/p>\n
SAN JUAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Han, Jaden H.
\nNguyen, Celine D.
\nYang, Hajoon<\/p>\n
ST. MARGARET\u2019S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Bredall, Riley
\nKothari, Kenji
\nLiao, Heng-Yi<\/p>\n
SANTA ANA<\/p>\n
FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Kaye, Amy H.
\nTantamjarik, Chloe B.<\/p>\n
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS<\/p>\n
Choi, Elise
\nDiwan, Armaan
\nHong, Henry
\nKim, Jayden
\nKim, Zachary
\nLy-Pang, Sophie
\nNgo, Adyson
\nNguyen, Lindsay
\nPhanco, Tyler
\nSharma, Aryan
\nSong, Angela
\nTran, Sterling<\/p>\n
WESTMINSTER<\/p>\n
LA QUINTA HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
Le, Annie
\nPham, Quynh-Anh B.<\/p>\n
WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n
YORBA LINDA<\/p>\n
HOMESCHOOL \/ ONLINE SCHOOL<\/p>\n
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