Alpharetta/Milton Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

ALPHARETTA/MILTON, GA — Thirty-five high school students from Alpharetta and Milton have been named semifinalists for a 2021 National Merit Scholarship.

The group are among about 16,000 high-school seniors nationwide who will go on to compete for National Merit scholarships worth more than $30 million to be offered next spring.

They are:

ALPHARETTA HIGH SCHOOL

• Akula, Nithya S.
• Chimmili, Chiranjeevi A.
• Cho, Erin S.
• Duggasani, Samir
• Eng, Megan L.
• Jin, Nathan X.
• Lu, Charles Z.
• Manchanda, Avya
• Nanji, Dhilan K.
• Peng, Ryan Y.
• Singh, Aditya
• Su, Jocelyn K.
• Tanzeem, Saad S.
• Vangapandu, Satvik
• Vemuri, Megha M.
• Venkatesan, Advik
• Wu, Jerry

FULTON SCIENCE ACADEMY PRIVATE SCHOOL

• Jasti, Shourya
• Watson, Holden E.

CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

• Amstutz, Kathryn A.
• Bowman, Claire V.
• Cotsman, Ashley B.
• Ho, Rebecca K.
• Mason, Rachel

MILTON HIGH SCHOOL

• Campbell, Nicole A.
• Chambers, Paige E.
• Dash, Akaash K.
• Dhingra, Aryan
• Gamba, Carl B.
• Nori, Divya V.
• Ram, Vishaal K.
• Shetty, Varun Y.
• Shivaiah, Shrey D.
• Soneji, Priya V.
• Viswanadha, Pranav

More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to become finalists, and more than half of those will win National Merit scholarships.

High-school juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in 2019.