Gwinnett High-School Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Seventy-nine high-school students from Gwinnett County and one from Loganville have been named semifinalists for a 2021 National Merit Scholarship.

The group of 80 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:

Archer High School, Lawrenceville: Morgan J. Bell

Brookwood High School, Snellville: Andrea F. An, William R. Bray, Kaylee W. Fang, Syed W. Ghaus, Grace L. Guo, Sandeed S. Sikandar, Trang ThanhThuy Vu

Collins High School, Suwanee: Wells W. Bussey

Duluth High School: Ria Iyengar, Srikar Narayan and Gopesh Singal

Grayson High School: Christopher T. Rhine

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Lawrenceville: Theodora T. Alese, Aryan Ashraf, Connor G. Burrell, Chelsea B. Campbell, Jianwei Chen, Zachariah F. Dawood, Avani R. Dhuri, Jordan S. Hammond, Ryan Z. Li, Cynthia Lin, Joshua G. Mellott, Vidur J. Saigal, Anne G. Wang, Grace S. Wang, Colton W. Woodring, Leo Xu and William T. Yoon

Lambert High School, Suwanee: Skyler S. Feng, Ruth E. Hong, Kayla M. Howard, Justin Kim, Noah M. Kim, Krishi Kishore, Jacob M. Lee, Jonathan Liu, Sindhura Mettupalli, Apoorva P. Palled, Varun Pateel, Soumya N. Patel, Sudipta Rath, Justin Ryu, Patrick Soo, Kevin H. Sun, Michelle C. Wu, John Zhang, Nina L. Zhao and Elin Zhou

Lanier High School, Sugar Hill: Veronica N. Roberson

Loganville High School: Anderson H. Holcomb

Mill Creek High School, Hoschton: Zachary B. Shapiro

Mountain View High School, Lawrenceville: Katie S. Shin

Norcross High School: Cooper H. Allen, Aidan C. Dealy, Elliott J. Januzelli, Martin T. Lachev, Abigail S. Lewis and Eric J. Van Ness

North Gwinnett High School, Suwanee: Madeline C. Busse, Jingrou Chen, Caren H. Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, Sophie M. Lee, Megha Mishra, Sarah W. Park and Steven Z. Vacha

Parkview High School, Lilburn: Havishkrit Arya, Sydney R. Walker, Anna M. Wang, Velda S. Wang, Shihao Xu and Heyi Zhang

Peachtree Ridge High School, Suwanee: Nikita R. Dandekar, Isaac Y. Hwang, Brian S. Ji and Brian J. Lee

Wesleyan School, Peachtree Corners: Jacob L. Price

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.