Sixty LWSD students named National Merit Semifinalists


Sixty LWSD students named National Merit Semifinalists

Redmond, Wash. – Sixty Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists yesterday. 

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. Nearly half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,250 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $28 million. 

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Lake Washington School District National Merit Semifinalists*:

Eastlake High School

  • Akshita Amarnath (Sammamish)
  • Sreshta Appalabattula (Sammamish)
  • Dylan T. Cajigas (Sammamish)
  • Elizabeth A. Fein (Sammamish)
  • Seohee Jeon (Redmond)
  • Tanvi Kale (Sammamish)
  • Kelly J. Lin (Sammamish)
  • Sean X. Lin (Sammamish)
  • Arjun Menon (Redmond)
  • Jaysheel S. Pandya (Sammamish)
  • Nancy L. Qu (Sammamish)
  • Avni Rao (Redmond)
  • Ankhita R. Sathanur (Sammamish)
  • Noah Shi (Sammamish)
  • Vaishnavi Sistla (Sammamish)
  • Bianca T. Timofte (Duvall)
  • Mahima D. Vadlamani (Sammamish)
  • Karan A. Vishwamitran (Sammamish)
  • Yan Zhu (Sammamish)

International Community School

  • Aubrey S. Jacob (Redmond)
  • Ann C. Li (Redmond)
  • Santoshi Pisupati (Redmond)

Juanita High School 

  • Nam H. Dao (Kirkland)
  • Anat Dubinsky (Woodinville)
  • Aidan Y. Liu (Kirkland)
  • Qing Yang Sun (Kirkland)

Redmond High School

  • Colin Cai (Redmond)
  • Castor Chen (Redmond)
  • Ishan Goel (Redmond)
  • Joseph D. Kaim (Redmond)
  • Sreshta I. Kalisi (Redmond)
  • Akshita Kikkuru (Redmond)
  • Felix Ulysses Niko Knowlton (Redmond)
  • Keerthana Kurapati (Redmond)
  • Sriram S. Kutty (Redmond)
  • Lora Kwon (Redmond)
  • Jason C. Lev (Redmond)
  • Griffin W. Maes (Redmond)
  • Isha Mehta (Redmond)
  • Mukta Mishra (Redmond)
  • Tony Wu (Redmond)
  • Cady Xia (Redmond)
  • Toprak B. Yildirim (Redmond)
  • Allen Zheng (Redmond)

Nikola Tesla STEM High School

  • Keshav Acharya (Sammamish)
  • Samiullah Khan Badal Khan (Redmond)
  • Druhin Bhowal (Sammamish)
  • Steven S. He (Redmond)
  • Min-Xuan Jyi (Kirkland)
  • Thanushree Karunagaran (Redmond)
  • Evan E. Kim (Redmond)
  • Harish Krishnakumar (Redmond)
  • Sebastian N. Kumar (Sammamish)
  • Hitesh Mantha (Sammamish)
  • Shreya Pandey (Redmond)
  • Siddhant Porwal (Redmond)
  • Gauri Raman (Sammamish)
  • Arihant K. Singh (Sammamish)
  • Anjali M. Sreenivas (Sammamish)
  • Anya Vaish (Kirkland)

* Note: Photos available on request.

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About Lake Washington: Lake Washington School District is a high-performing public school district serving Kirkland Redmond and Sammamish Washington. It is the second largest district in the state of Washington with over 30,000 students in 57 schools.
 


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