37 Ohio Students Are National Merit Scholarship Winners

OHIO — The National Merit Scholarship Program named 37 Ohio high school students winners of 2021 corporate-sponsored scholarships.

More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship and the program says that around 7,500 students will go on to win scholarships in 2021.

Winners of the first-round of scholarships, all corporate-sponsored, were announced Wednesday morning and include approximately 1,000 high-school seniors from across the U.S. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Program, the corporate scholarships are financed by about 140 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations.

The awards are renewable for up to four years of undergraduate study and students get a stipend that's anywhere between $1,000 - $10,000 each year. Some of the awards include a single payment between $2,500-$5,000.

Winners of the $2,500 scholarships and the college-sponsored scholarships will be announced later this year.

Here are the Ohio winners for the corporate-sponsored scholarships:

• Somin Jung — Beachwood High
• Grace Anne Bohl — Mariemont High
• Skandda Chandrasekar — Cincinnati Country Day School
• Aaditi M. Lele — Sycamore High
• Elizabeth X. Liu — Turpin High
• Shubhra Mishra — Walnut Hills High
• Ethan Schnettler — Walnut Hills High
• Samuel D. Tilford — Anderson High
• Elizabeth M. Volk — St. Ursula Academy
• Rena Y. Zhao — Upper Arlington High
• Ashwin Char — Dublin Coffman High
• Hrishi Kousik — Dublin Jerome High
• Himani S. Pattisam — Dublin Coffman High
• Owen Schultz — Dublin Coffman High
• Ethan F. Jiang — University Schools
• Joel M. Laudo — Hilliard Davidson High
• Abigail Swamidoss — Olentangy High
• Courtney J. Lyden — Lakota East High
• Amogh Iyanna — William Mason High
• Kevin Ren — William Mason High
• William C. Richards — Bishop Fenwick High
• Ayanav Roy — William Mason High
• Ann M. Vettikkal — William Mason High
• Isaac M. Brej — St. Ignatius High
• Julia R. Grady — Buckeye High
• Nathan Rolfes — Mentor High
• Gabriela I. Feinberg — Columbus School for Girls
• Sydney Fife — New Albany High
• Lucas Huang — Columbus Academy
• Danna C. Long — New Albany High
• William M. Distin — Olmsted Falls High
• Siddharth Khadkikar — Dublin Jerome High
• Emily Y. Qian — Hathaway Brown High
• Alexandru Sachelari — Strongsville High
• Vidushi Trivedi — Lakota West High
• Leah I. Vanasdale — St. Francis De Sales High
• Elliott N. Yoon — Willoughby South High