Redmond, Wash. – Sixty Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists on Wednesday, September 13.

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 14,500 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. A little less than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,140 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $28 million. 

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2022 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

• Aaditya Agnihotri 
• Rushil Arun 
• Arjun Balaji 
• Aarna Chowdhary
• Maanit Goel 
• Angela He 
• Riddhi S. Joshi
• Sulaimaan Khurrum 
• Brendan C. Lloyd
• Medha Mittal 
• Max Qu 
• Arjun S. Rao 
• Michael Z. Sheng 
• Chaeyoung Yoon 
• Ethan Yoon 

International Community School

• Kunal Duggal 
• Selin Filiz

Juanita High School 

• Ameya N. Bhide

Lake Washington High School

• Ashar Ahmad
• Rishi Cherian
• Logan Chu 
• Amish Patra
• Sitara Ravishankar 
• Vikram Srinivansan 
• Kaelin Wang Hu

Redmond High School

• Aadit Ambadkar
• Shruti Badrish 
• Vyakhya Bhargava
• Divya E. Gatta 
• Richa Jayanti
• Alvin Liu
• Dhyana Magesh
• Sidharth K. Rajagopal 
• Sanjay Rajesh
• Aadhav Saravanan
• Joseph D. Sigall
• Nandini Sinha 
• Akshath Srinivasan 
• Jackson C. Sutton
• Grace Tan
• Bryan H. Xu
• Ailee Yoshida
• Xinping Yuan 

Nikola Tesla STEM High School

• Chegu Vijay Aashray
• Anshu Aggarwal
• Saraswathy Amjith 
• Nimai S. Belur
• Shauryan Deb 
• Aparna P. Iyer
• John Karaca 
• Rithvik Koppolu 
• Chris Ma 
• Varsha Mantravadi 
• Vasudha S. Narayanan 
• Aylin Ozdemir 
• Anusha Pandey 
• Divya Ramu 
• Saathvik Somujayabalan 
• Colin Xie 

* 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 56 schools. For more information, visit www.lwsd.org.