Professional Documents
Culture Documents
23 PA Semifinalists-NatlMeritProgram
23 PA Semifinalists-NatlMeritProgram
23 PA Semifinalists-NatlMeritProgram
1560 Sherman Avenue, Suite 200, Evanston, Illinois 60201-4897 (847) 866-5100
-more-
Add one
Semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program
To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed
scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalist’s academic record,
participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment,
and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record
throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and
earn SAT ® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
From over 16,000 Semifinalists, more than 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist
level, and in February they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit Scholarship
winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the
basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without
regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
National Merit Scholarships
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2023. Every
Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded
on a state-representational basis. About 950 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be
provided by approximately 180 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their
specified criteria, such as children of the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where
sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 160 colleges and universities are expected
to finance some 3,800 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the
sponsor institution.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2023 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join nearly
368,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
# # #
NMSC, National Merit, Merit Scholarship, Merit Scholar, and the corporate “Lamp of Learning” logo are federally registered service
marks of National Merit Scholarship Corporation. PSAT/NMSQT is a registered trademark of National Merit Scholarship Corporation and College
Board. SAT is a registered trademark of College Board. ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc.
Semifinalists: 2023 National COLLEGEVILLE
PERKIOMEN VALLEY H. S.
628
454
Groff, Christopher M.
Johnson, Daniel B.
830 Bonner, Kevin R. 302 Kim, Sean Y.
Merit Scholarship Program 000 Marks, Benjamin I. 451
451
Liang, Alice Y.
Liu, Victor X.
VALLEY FORGE 450 Lu, Anna J.
BAPTIST ACADEMY 837 O'Leary, Shannon R.
628 Adedokun, Hope I. 999 Panda, Sameeksha
628 Tirumalareddy, Srikrishna R.
Iyer, Arun CORAOPOLIS 789 Wang, Lucy Y.
PENNSYLVANIA 000
000 Iyer, Jan OUR LADY OF THE SACRED
302 Jiang, Jason S. HEART H. S. EASTON
ABINGTON 000 Kaushik, Sejal 000 Planinsic, Lorin J. EASTON AREA H. S.
ABINGTON H. S. 000 Krishna, Chaitanya 303 Li, Emma B.
000 Cleary, Anna W.
999 Liang, Sarah M. DALLASTOWN
999 Cossrow, Benjamin I.
000 Liedtka, Anneliese F. DALLASTOWN AREA H. S. HOMESCHOOL
999 Farzaneh, Romina
000 Lu, Evan T. 628 Nicholson, Robert J. 907 Ugochuku, Chizaram A.
000 Kim, Kaileb H.
000 Luo, Renkai 000 Satheesh, Adithy P.
303 Lowery, Robert S.
000 Martin, Anne L. 303 Zhang, Daniel Z. EBENSBURG
450 Moore, Audrey H.
000 Ong, Ryan Z. CENTRAL CAMBRIA H. S.
000 Slotter, Jeremy T.
999 Pu, Yuting DANVILLE 450 Westrick, Jenna M.
301 Radhakrishnan, Ved A. DANVILLE AREA H. S.
999 Rao, Maya 791 Sabol, Paige E. ELLIOTTSBURG
ALLENTOWN 628 Rowe, Isabella C. 161 Weng, Angela WEST PERRY H. S.
PARKLAND H. S. 000 Samdani, Hiba
836 Gandhi, Reva 457 Wilt, Joseph T.
162 Serinsky, Zachary N. DEVON
628 Hanumaihgari, Vishruth R. 311 Smith, Henry
000 Hill, Andrew C. DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL ELLWOOD CITY
999 Steigerwald, James R. 301 Delucca, Matthew J. LINCOLN H. S.
218 Kothari, Sanika 000 Stewart, Aidan M.
000 Oxfeld, Noah A. 000 Weir, Andrew A. 000 Slade, Hayden
000 Stienes, Ava C.
743 Roth, Mitchell Q. 742 Tandon, Kovid
628 Tariq, Daud DOUGLASSVILLE ERIE
000 Tian, Catherine S. HOMESCHOOL
628 Yang, Taehyuk 000 Tu, Daniel R. MERCYHURST PREPARATORY
000 Yoon, Joshua Y. 000 Sotomayor, Judah I. SCHOOL
302 Vijayakrishnan, Niranjan
999 Wolters, Elizabeth Y. 000 Chambers, Robert F.
ALLISON PARK DOWNINGTOWN
000 Xiang, Michael Q. DOWNINGTOWN H. S. WEST
HAMPTON H. S. 000 Yan, Jacob C. NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
000 Girard, William S. 303 Bajpai, Rachit COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
200 Yao, Vincent Z. 000 Beebe, Matthew N.
000 Hutton, John N. 000 Yu, Evelyn 000 Cui, Eric
999 Johnson, Amiya O. 209 Jain, Sahil
DOWNINGTOWN STEM ACADEMY
BETHLEHEM 000 Annagiri, Shreyas EXTON
AMBLER LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER H. S. 451 Bhargava, Devanshi
WISSAHICKON H. S. DOWNINGTOWN H. S. EAST
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 628 Bommareddy, Yasaswini 450 Attarde, Rishi R.
454 Chen, Tiffany 000 Owens, Samuel F. 300 Cheeti, Geeta 000 Gill, Ryan A.
990 Kim, Rachel
000 Choudhary, Yaduraj P. 000 Gupta, Yajat
742 O'Farrell, Ryan
LIBERTY H. S. 000 Dang, Leon X. 000 Jimmy, Jinson A.
300 Puenpatom, Napat
160 Ganguly, Surjo M. 000 Fleckser, Mark B. 000 Judkins, Noah V.
830 Suhas, Anuhya
000 Tekumalla, Siddhardh 000 Gao, Melody F. 000 Pakkerakari, Sai Pradhi
162 Wang, Andy
185 Tekumalla, Sruti 821 Hu, Oak E. 000 Pan, William L.
450 Zhang, Vincent
457 Jammula, Taarana 000 Patel, Rohan
999 Zhao, Lily
185 Julkipli, Wafiza 000 Pherwani, Rohan A.
BOYERTOWN 999 Kadiyala, Aditya
ARDMORE BOYERTOWN AREA H. S. 000 Soma, Nidhi
000 Kamana, Lineesha 000 Zhu, Helen
LOWER MERION H. S. 999 Klass, Dylan M.
000 Menon, Sidanth V.
000 Aizenberg, Michael 000 Pathipati, Tejasvi
000 Angelov, Stoyan BRIDGEVILLE 000 Raparla, Aneesh S.
FAIRLESS HILLS
000 Dubnoff, Julia D. CHARTIERS VALLEY H. S. 000 Salmon, Timothy J.
PENNSBURY H. S.
000 Fang, Katherine 000 Maddix, Sean 000 Franklin, Henry D.
000 Saravanarajan, Hitaesh
000 Ge, Angela 000 Pedersen, Liam 302 Mackey, Avery B.
000 Satish Umare, Kashti
000 Hachadoorian, Kallista 202 Papshev, Robert M.
000 Snyder, Madeleine R.
000 Huang, Amy 455 Patel, Varun S.
BRYN MAWR 451 Srivastava, Shashwat
000 Kelly, Michelle BALDWIN SCHOOL 200 Suryapalam, Ruthvik H.
000 Lancaster, Mark 870 Brose, Julie A. 628 Tan, Charlotte FAIRVIEW
000 Liu, David 628 Cai, Christina Y.
FAIRVIEW H. S.
000 McCann, Andrew HOMESCHOOL 743 Cimino, Anthony J.
160 Kaplan, Batya M.
000 Stanger, Sarah 162 Li, Eugenia 000 Spradau, Mary
000 Wagner, Poppy 000 Lin, Yuru FLOURTOWN
000 Wang, Claire 161 Pang, Zibei BISHOP SHANAHAN H. S. MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY
000 Yu, Nathan 000 Walko, Makenna J. 999 Kolimago, William P. 000 Cherico, Veronica B.
214 Zhang, Wanying
BANGOR DOYLESTOWN FORT WASHINGTON
BANGOR AREA H. S. JACK M. BARRACK CENTRAL BUCKS H. S. EAST GERMANTOWN ACADEMY
000 Pysher, Braiden D. 454 Baker, Joshua W. 000 Amorosi, Melinda
HEBREW ACADEMY
430 Bates, Sonya A. 000 Chadda, Yash
000 Cohen, Niva P.
BENTLEYVILLE 000 Loukedis, Leah 000 Gadre, Adhiraj A.
000 Zelnick, Benjamin N.
BENTWORTH H. S. 999 Sexton, James F. 999 Sasson, Jacob M.
000 Schreiber, Reagan M. 450 Torres, Francis M. 000 Wang, Samuel
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL 000 Weidemoyer, Luke
000 Brenan, Finnegan K.
BERWYN CENTRAL BUCKS H. S. WEST
000 Israeli, Graham H. UPPER DUBLIN H. S.
CONESTOGA H. S. 432 Acosta-Morales, Mila
000 McCarthy, Andrew J. 999 Cai, Alex
000 Angelides, Scott K. 742 Magalio, Olivia M.
185 Velamuri, Srijan S. 161 Chaudhuri, Sneha
000 Braswell, Olivia K. 000 Maher, Ethan H.
999 Zheng, Haoyang 000 Deng, Thomas
000 Chelur, Vivek 628 Xu, Lance Y.
000 Chen, Nathanael X. 160 Zhang, Jonathan T. 000 Gong, Hannah
000 Cho, Isabella CENTER VALLEY 000 Kang, Arden
000 Chuss, Thomas R. SOUTHERN LEHIGH H. S. DU BOIS 000 Kullmann, Landon D.
907 Costas, Alexis N. 000 Desai, Cyrus D. DU BOIS AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL 000 Lim, Megan
000 Dong, Alvin 000 Desai, Sam D. 162 Gupta, Neel D. 000 Serafin, Ben
300 Dora, Aditya 000 Morrison, Liam D.
743 Gan, Alexander H. 999 Patel, Alaina K. DU BOIS AREA H. S. GETTYSBURG
712 Ganesan, Asha 000 Sumner, Jeremy N. 906 Wirths, Julia T. GETTYSBURG AREA H. S.
270 Garimidi, Anish 000 Wen, Yanfei S. 999 Reber, Malina
303 Gong, Yiwen 000 Woods, Lauren R. EAGLEVILLE
161 Han, Ina METHACTON H. S. GIBSONIA
000 Han, Matthew J. COAL CENTER 450 Bapat, Chinmay H. PINE - RICHLAND H. S.
999 Haque, Marla C. CALIFORNIA AREA H. S. 160 Chung, Haley E. 000 Kastner, Luke
000 Huang, Ethan J. 999 Vanderlaan, Kai V. 999 Dandibhotla, Shrinija 000 Lukez, Jacob
3
Semifinalists: 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program
HUNTINGDON VALLEY LEETSDALE NEW HOPE
Pennsylvania (continued) LOWER MORELAND H. S. QUAKER VALLEY H. S. NEW HOPE - SOLEBURY H. S.
000 Abraham, Noam 000 Currier, Keira M. 000 Li, Adrian Y.
000 Ciuciu, Adriana N. 940 Weicht, Eric V. 000 Wiseman, Nathaniel C.
000 Rishel, Benjamin 000 Duarte, Phillip M.
628 Salvadore, Andrew 000 Guntsadze, Nicholas G. LEOLA NEW WILMINGTON
000 Porotov, Daniel M. VERITAS ACADEMY WILMINGTON AREA H. S.
GLEN MILLS 000 Spead, John B. 790 Shelenberger, Micah R.
GARNET VALLEY H. S. KENNETT SQUARE
200 Bhat, Anirudh KENNETT H. S. LITITZ NEWTOWN
160 Dantu, Tejasvi 000 Burns, Sarah E. WARWICK H. S. COUNCIL ROCK H. S. NORTH
000 Hua, Andrew 000 Duckworth, Lydia G. 302 Hain, Carter T. 450 Bloechl, Thomas A.
168 Palmer, Emilia 000 Ondik, Maxwell P.
000 Singh, Sanya UNIONVILLE H. S. MALVERN 303 Tian, Sean
000 Wu, Benjamin 000 Bomberger, Elias GREAT VALLEY H. S. 000 Ye, Grace R.
000 Bonato, Thomaz F. 303 Bendre, Shreeniket V. 000 Yuan, Jessica Y.
522 Bundes, Brody J. 000 Khot, Nikhil R. 999 Yucel, Sinan
GLEN ROCK
SUSQUEHANNOCK H. S. 000 Chai, David A. 000 Law, Ved
000 Han, Clifford 870 Samant, Vyoma GEORGE SCHOOL
743 Brusse, Colin A.
000 Heilman, Aydan G. 000 Traynor, Jada E. 160 Denoon, Derek H.
999 O'Brien, Matthew R.
000 Liu, Maggie Y. 000 Xu, Dylan T. 161 Gorby, Sarah E.
4
Semifinalists: 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program
RADNOR SPRINGFIELD WESTTOWN SCHOOL
Pennsylvania (continued) GRAYSON SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD H. S. 000 Baker, Chloe C.
000 Joseph, Stocke A. 999 McGovern, Connor T. 000 Dong, Zihan
467 Ochis, Eric S.
999 Shirodkar, Kethan RADNOR H. S. STATE COLLEGE 789 Salvucci, Milo D.
999 Sulea, Luiza 160 Chen, Leon HOMESCHOOL
000 Trinh, Evan 000 Cheung, Alexander 000 Moeny, Michael W. WEST GROVE
000 Yuen, Christopher 000 Eraso, Sabina AVON GROVE H. S.
300 Goldstein, Alexander STATE COLLEGE AREA H. S. 000 Enache, Rachel
000 Holtz, Emily 000 Adu, Elijah B. 455 Gerwig, Bradley
NAZARETH ACADEMY H. S.
161 Johnstone, Elizabeth 000 Briscoe, Owen B.
467 Diprimeo, Sophia L.
742 Le, Skyler 160 Guo, Quiana Z. WEST LAWN
833 MacKenzie, Edith 000 Haar, Isaac A. WILSON H. S.
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL 450 Oh, Jason 999 Conzaman, Zachary C.
454 Huang, Sarah
000 Frank, Jack E. 000 Rayer, Anne-Aurora 303 Peacock, Jack D.
209 Ikenberry, Samuel L.
628 Simone-Dobin, Zoe 000 Jegla, Max C. 450 Senthilvel, Sidharth
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT 000 Skvortsov, Anton 000 Jones, Avery T. 000 Xie, Jodie
HILL ACADEMY 870 Tyburski, Christopher 000 Li, Kevin
000 Cai, Shangchen 000 Wang, Jessica 168 Reid, Connor H. WEXFORD
999 O'Connor, Daniel 000 Xie, Mia 000 Shu, Audrey NORTH ALLEGHENY H. S.
200 Song, Qimou 000 Yoo, Lauren 204 Wittrig, Jacob M. 166 Ahmed, Noor B.
999 Zhao, Christopher 000 Wright, Elena D. 000 Chalifoux, Jacqueline J.
ST. JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY 843 Zhang, Emily R. 883 Goyal, Daksh
SCHOOL RED LION 463 Gudapati, Samhita
000 Holden, Liam J. RED LION AREA H. S. UNIONTOWN 303 Hulver, Amanda L.
185 O'Brien, Connor P. 450 Lynch, Liam P. UNIONTOWN AREA H. S. 999 Mi, Kathryn P.
000 Vacha, Benjamin A. 742 Patton, Malcolm J. 454 Mkandawire, Tabo L.
ROSEMONT 870 Mu, Maggie Y.
PHOENIXVILLE HARRITON H. S. UPPER ST. CLAIR 000 Nagarajan, Vikram
PHOENIXVILLE AREA H. S. 000 Bacine, Meredith UPPER ST. CLAIR H. S. 000 Nie, Victoria
000 Forte, Ailill E. 000 Boulware, Hana 000 Chui, Carter L. 999 Palagani, Satvik Reddy
000 Rein, Ezekiel 000 Chen, Hannah 454 Dietiker, Jasmine F. 000 Park, Dahyun
000 Fan, Francis 628 Earley, Matthew O. 161 Patel, Naiya
PITTSBURGH 000 Gao, Hannah 454 Goyal, Ansh 000 Peng, Katharine
BALDWIN H. S. 000 Gomes, Sonia 906 Khan, Peer Abdul-Qadir 000 Reddy, Rohan S.
450 Ochs, Stephany 000 Kallen, Leah 999 Lu, Jason 628 Setya, Himanshu
000 Ma, Ray 455 Markovitz, Phillip T. 000 Shah, Anshul J.
000 Mahoney, Tessa 450 Starr, Lauren E. 000 Solai, Pradyun L.
CENTRAL CATHOLIC H. S. 772 Sun, William
883 Sabo, Jack R. 000 Mezey-McMahon, Norah 200 Wasson, Benjamin G.
000 Patel, Sofia 303 Wang, Grace Y.
000 Potts, Christian 000 Zhang, Daniel G.
THE ELLIS SCHOOL VILLANOVA 870 Zimmer, Ella C.
000 Pratsos, Alexandros ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME
311 Haggerty, Viola C. 000 Shen, Kevin DE NAMUR
000 Shenoy, Sridhar 000 Jackson, Rebecca
WILLIAMSPORT
FOX CHAPEL AREA H. S. 000 Toikka, Veikko WILLIAMSPORT AREA H. S.
834 Conklin, Elijah M. 000 McBride, Lindsay
000 Zhu, Clara 000 Manetta, Benjamin
301 Dorneich, Aiden 000 Pinto, Emmanuelle
000 Zhuang, Benjamin
455 Golla, Arjun A. WRIGHTSVILLE
301 Liu, Lawrence WALLINGFORD EASTERN YORK H. S.
AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL STRATH HAVEN H. S.
254 Owens, Silas Z. 000 Johnson, Maya S. 743 Guillaume, Nathan F.
000 Ramachandran, Mahitha 161 Bi, Justin
000 Press, Lillian T.
303 Seshan, Arvind 000 Cardi, Nicholas
000 Chen, Alexander
WYNCOTE
000 Srodes, Dylan M. CHELTENHAM H. S.
ROYERSFORD 302 Clow-Mclaughlin, Atticus
162 Tan, Ethan C. 773 Bosniak, Kai S.
SPRING - FORD H. S. 999 He, Sarah
628 Mokonchu, Vania 303 John, Gavin
MOUNT LEBANON H. S. 300 Nakkella, Samyan S. WYNDMOOR
463 Kaplinsky, Eden
451 Dustevich, Chase T. 160 Pallem, Arnav S. LA SALLE COLLEGE H. S.
000 Manaker, Ava
000 Green, Amanda L. 788 Srinivas, Sunidhi H. 450 Barnes, Sebastian C.
999 Maqbool, Dania
000 Matros, Constantin 204 Cohen, Evan G.
303 Rastogi, Jai
870 Sinar, Hayden Z. SCHUYLKILL HAVEN 450 Giordano, Matthew J.
300 Zhang, Danny
710 Tan, Amy Y. BLUE MOUNTAIN H. S. 451 Glover, Harrison J.
000 Venugopal, Vishnu M. 000 Magdeburg, Sarah E. 300 Ippoliti, Alexander V.
WARMINSTER
NORTH HILLS H. S. WILLIAM TENNENT H. S. WYNNEWOOD
SCOTLAND 000 Dadlani, Rishi M.
455 Boyle, Andrew D. GLOBAL VISION FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 000 Rice, Alexander V.
PITTSBURGH CREATIVE AND WARRINGTON
175 Lee, Faith Y. CENTRAL BUCKS H. S. SOUTH
PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL HOMESCHOOL
000 Fee, Jaimin Q. 000 Sheard, Samuel
455 Leon, Graciela P. SELINSGROVE 160 He, Katherine F.
SELINSGROVE AREA H. S. 000 Kim, Benjamin J.
PITTSBURGH SCIENCE AND 457 Parker, McKenna R. WYOMISSING
000 Kim, Ethan H. WYOMISSING AREA H. S.
TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY 000 Schmidt, Brian M.
457 Tatarinov, Alexey A. 743 Young, Cooper J.
SEWICKLEY 160 Sethukarthy, Akhil 628 Zobian, Benjamin S.
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY 740 Strobel, Claire K.
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY 000 Armutat, Grace E. 000 Sureddy, Namrata
000 Gardner, Ella 000 Jiao, Leon
YORK
000 Gardner, Emma 628 Miner, Jayne A.
CENTRAL YORK H. S.
WELLSBORO 000 Ilko, Joshua S.
000 Gombos, Elaine 160 Silvaggio, Maria T. WELLSBORO AREA H. S.
000 McCoy, Michael 836 McClure, Peyton L.
000 Thompson, Savita YORK SUBURBAN H. S.
SHILLINGTON 000 Yao, Steven H.
000 Todd, Alexander GOVERNOR MIFFLIN H. S. WEST CHESTER
904 Detwiler, Brady L. B. REED HENDERSON H. S.
WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL 843 Schoenen, Jay R. 303 Devpura, Aansh
000 Kochupura, Daniel 999 Shigeno, Elan
000 Sayette, Alexander SOUDERTON 000 Singhania, Sanjana
185 Simhan, Uma SOUDERTON AREA H. S.
000 Benner, Renae E. BAYARD RUSTIN H. S.
POTTSTOWN 000 Smith, Marcus J. 161 Chaudhary, Anika
THE HILL SCHOOL 000 Jacquette, Nicole
000 Gupta, Aman SPRING CHURCH 836 Park, Ji Sung
000 Zhu, Jifan APOLLO - RIDGE H. S. 628 Venkatesan, Gayatri
455 Smoyer, Madelyn B.
OWEN J. ROBERTS H. S. WEST CHESTER EAST H. S.
000 Dulay, Maxwell C. SPRING GROVE 883 Bhatia, Saanvi
100 Ewing, Sarah L. SPRING GROVE AREA H. S. 303 Cheng, Daniel
161 Komera, Vaishnavi 455 Krill, Piper M. 300 Cooper, Jefferson