Semifinalists named for National Merit Scholarship Program
Many area students are among roughly 16,000 semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
The high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring.
Here's a look at the semifinalists from DuPage County:
Aurora (IMSA): Zachary Andersen, Surya Cannon, Bert Cao, Allen Chen, Daniel Chen, Joshua Eberhardt. Matthew Feinberg, Audrey Gallier, Kaushal Gumpula, Hanson Hao, Nathanael Kim, Liana Koleva, Leon Li, Andy Liu, Eva Liu, Katie Lu, Kevin Mikos, Harshavardhan Nalam, Rebecca Osar, Prachi Patil, Devika Prasad, Chetan Reddy, Faris Shaikh, Bharath Sreemivas, Shvetail Thatte, Srivinay Tummarakota, Anthony Un, Tommy Vadakumchery, Abigail VanderPloeg, Tanmayee Vegesna, Shubha Verma, Mareike Western, Kristin Wolford, John Woods, Annie Xu.
Aurora (Marmion Academy): Michael Neff.
Aurora (Metea Valley): Ankitha Damisetty, David James, Olivia Jaudes, Katleen Pankow, Svanik Tandon, Andrew Wang, Kevin Yu.
Aurora (Waubonsie Valley): Connie Chen. Michael Chen, Pranav Jaikumar, Soomin Kim, Shruti Kolli, Samyag Madrecha, Charles Olson, Mihir Rao, Ryan Ruhde, Eshan Shah, Crista Thyvelikakath.
Aurora (West Aurora): Benjamin Cuga.
Darien (Hinsdale South): Tanner Booth, Jacob John, Jouzas Nakvosas.
Elmhurst (Timothy Christian): William Demey.
Elmhurst (York): Michael Bindeman, Joseph Black, Calvin Carta, Christian Glosner. William Phillips, Edward Ryan, Hayden Snyder, Cecilia Stumpf.
Glen Ellyn (Glenbard South): Molly Friedman
Glen Ellyn (Glenbard West): Peter Blatchford, Emilia Carlson, Samra Haseeb, Benjamin Kelleher, Ahalya Lettenberger, Eleanor Ostroff, Sarah Pasinski, Henry Stachowiak.
Hinsdale (Hinsdale Central): Annika Agrawal, Daren Chen, Grace DeAngelis, Hrishikesh Deshmukh, Denise Fischer, George Gao, James Giltner, Kyra Graeb, Angela Han, Alec Hill, Gerald Hughes, Emily Kizior, Melissa Li, Matthew Lorenz, Rehan Mehta, Lana Millman, Arjun Nair, Nasharr, Anthony, Aliza Panjwani, Reeya Patolawala, Nicholas Sutton, Zhengxin Tang, Joshua Terry, Gayatri Thirunarayanan, Emma Wang, Elaine Yan.
Hinsdale (Hinsdale Adventist Academy): Alexander Navarro.
Lisle (Benet Academy): Matteo Caulfield, Katherine Chism, Hannah Dougherty, Patrick Enochs, Grace Heaton, Connor O'Keefe, Charles Romenesko, Kaylie Scorza.
Lisle: (Homeschool): Rebecca DiCosola.
Lisle (Lisle High School): Mandy Kaiser.
Lombard (College Preparatory School of America): Sulaiman Sajed.
Lombard (Glenbard East): Graeme Leighton, Grace Schwieters, Eha Srivastava.
Naperville (Naperville Central): Alexa Bukowski, Daniel Clepper, Therese Deutsch, Prateek Dullur, Erin Fang, Katherine Ho, Ria Jha, Patrick Koh, Katherine Krupicka, Kenneth Li, Adarsh Mattu, Saagar Moradia, Ganesan Narayanan, Naraen Palanikumar, Shoshanna Perchanok, Jack Reicherts, James Royal, Ammaar Saeed, Lucy Schmid, Justas Stankevicius, Emma Susin, Alex Trickey, Max Walts.
Naperville (Naperville North): Kierra Beeson, Jack Boettcher, Denny Chuong, Emma Connelly, Clara Duan, Karen Ge, JustinGriffith, Ruan Guan, Tanya Iyer, Senthooran Kalidoss, Benjamin Kan, Jessica Lee, Maxwell Levitt, Grace Liu, Jason Liu, Aditya Ramachandran, Ryan Robbins, Nicole Serpico, Sonal Sethi, Sangita Setlur, Rachel Shen, Gregory Shobert, Anahita Tewatia, Leanne Wang, Joseph Yuan, Maxwell Richard Zhang, Sarah Zhou.
Naperville (Neuqua Valley): Achutha Balaji, Shalakha Bonthu, Akshay Dugar, Sean Fu, Christopher Guo, Leah Kunneth, Jessica Liu, Rishelle Manda, Claire Mikulcik, Nilesh Mukherji, Aaditya Nandakumar, Tejas Ogale, Indraneel Pai, Nate Passaro, Jennifer Pochyly, Bryan Qiu, Anuva Shandilya, Isha Sharma, Adam Song, Andrew Song, Christopher Song, Hari Sridhara, Vikram Sunderrajan, Jeffrey Tang, Philip Wang, Kevin Wu, Megan Wu, Eric Xu.
Roselle (Lake Park): Kevin Antony, Andelyn Granskog.
Villa Park (Willowbrook): Jackson Hathaway, Maxwell Polanek, Annie Ross.
West Chicago (Wheaton Academy): Brian Henry, William Lyon.
Wheaton (St. Francis): Nicholas Gulli, Ryan Martin.
Wheaton (Wheaton North): Hania Dziurdzik, Luke Mondia, William Richards, Scott Taylor.
Wheaton (Warrenville South): Connell Hecht, Daniel Hjellming, Stephen Parch, David Taullahu.