semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe semifinalists, announced on Sept. 9, 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 Cupertino High School semifinalists are Ayush Bansal, Avyukt R. Bharadwaj, Laura J. Chen, Sanvi V. Desai, Ella J. He, Soyoung Jee, Anuraag N. Kabe, Vedangh S. Kamath, Prisha Kaushik, Ishan Khosla, Rosa S. Lee, Qinzhao Li, Stephen Y. Lin,Mingxin Liu, Harish Loghashankar, Eunho Namkoong, Nilesh Parasar, Sharvil N. Phadke, Aneesh Raghavan, Niranjan S. Rao, Izumi R. Rubin, Arnav R. Sabbella, Max Y. Shi , Aditya Singla, Hyeyeon Song, Connor F. Wang, Justin C. Wong, Anthony N. Xavier, Eric Yan, Kayce Yan and Celine Zhang.<\/p>\n
The Homestead High School semifinalists are Yana H. Astardjieva, Naveen L. Badrinath, Sachin N. Chandran,\u00a0 Rachel R. Chen, Naomi L. Chi, Allison C. Chuang, Spencer K. Diep, Hayden I. Floyd, Sunnie D. Gao, Advait Ghosh, Siddhartha S. Gokhale, Benjamin B. Hansen, Jason G. Ip, Sufee N. Kathane, Charles Y. Komatsu, Alexander Lau, Jonah A. Lin, Elliot Y. Lu, Alessandro Montesi, Anushree A. Ogale, Varun Rajkumar, Anoushka P. Rathi, Sree Vemuri, Claire Xu, Ethan D. Xue, Cailin Yeh and Stanley Z. Yen.<\/p>\n
The Monta Vista High School semifinalists are Rehan Babu, Jonah H.Chang, Aeshna Chatterji, Sophia Chen, Joyce R. Chou, Atharv S. Dirisala, Soham Dwivedi, Chloe Y. He, Chenghao Hu, Danica Huang, Xinhui Huang, Nimal Kumar, Harvey Lei, Erin Liu, Harly L. Liu, William K. Liu, Naomi P. Lyn, Elaina Y. Pan, Vibha Raghvendran, Shreyas R. Rajalingari, Ananya K. Rao, Rishabh R. Rathi, Simha S. Satoor, Yashasvi Sehgal, Leo M. Shih, Sridhar Shivashankar, Jihoo Won, Yuan Xing, Audrey E. Yin and Kaiyu Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in the Fremont Union High School District made a strong showing in this year\u2019s National Merit Scholarship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-477499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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