Schools
47 LWSD Students Make National Merit Semifinals
About half of the 16,000 semifinalists around the nation will earn a National Merit scholarship.
LWSD: Forty-seven Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. That is the most ever for LWSD. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists today.
Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. More than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $31 million.
Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2018 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.
Find out what's happening in Redmondfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Lake Washington School District National Merit Semifinalists*:
Eastlake High School:
Find out what's happening in Redmondfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Bobby Aiyer (Redmond)
- Isabel Burney (Sammamish)
- Neha Dalia (Sammamish)
- Matthieu Le (Sammamish)
- Megan Mattappally (Sammamish)
- Shanmugam Meyyappan (Sammamish)
- Victoria Raggi (Sammamish)
- Rohit Ramesh (Sammamish)
- Emma Trueba (Sammamish)
- Bridget Wilson (Sammamish)
- Nathan Zeng (Sammamish)
International Community School:
- Alex Chang (Sammamish)
- Cheryl Li (Kirkland)
- Annalisa Mueller-Eberstein (Kirkland)
- Aneesha Ramesh (Redmond)
Lake Washington High School:
- Carlos Alvarez (Kirkland)
- Mark Hilwa (Redmond)
Nikola Tesla STEM High School:
- Hyunjin Cho (Kirkland)
- Annie Denton (Kirkland)
- Aryo Karai (Sammamish)
- Isha Murali (Sammamish)
- Sowmya Pratipati (Redmond)
- Devesh Sarda (Redmond)
- Amrutha Srikanth (Sammamish)
- Anusha Srivastava (Redmond)
- David Stanko (Sammamish)
- Aditi Subramanyam (Sammamish)
- Rishika Veeramachaneni (Sammamish)
- Maxwell Wang (Sammamish)
- Callie Wharton (Kirkland)
Redmond High School:
- Jennifer Chou (Woodinville)
- Collin Dang (Redmond)
- Kaan Ingec (Redmond)
- Sathvik Kakanuru (Redmond)
- Tejas Kalyan (Redmond)
- Yuhui Li (Redmond)
- Ashley Luty (Redmond)
- Abhignya Mantha (Redmond)
- Sofiya Mitchell (Redmond)
- Maneesh Rajagopal (Woodinville)
- Deepti Ramani (Redmond)
- Arpit Ranasaria (Redmond)
- Sunidhi Ranganathan (Redmond)
- Jordan Rothkowitz (Woodinville)
- Mukil Shanmugam (Redmond)
- Ananya Srivastava (Redmond)
- Eileen Zhang (Redmond)