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Plano ISD Congratulates Our 2024 National Merit Semifinalists*
September 15, 2023
Plano ISD joins with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) to congratulate our 74 National Merit Program® semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program*. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as an initial screen for program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
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.
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Vijay M. Avala, Plano West Senior High School
Jongwoo Beck, Plano West Senior High School
Ezyan A. Bhayani, Plano East Senior High School
Keran Chen, Plano Senior High School
Aalo B. Choudhary, Plano West Senior High School
David Cui, Plano West Senior High School
Hannah X. Gan, Plano West Senior High School
Randy W. Guo, Plano West Senior High School
Garima Gupta, Plano East Senior High School
Ethan Hao, Plano West Senior High School
Anish Hariharan, Plano West Senior High School
Jiaxi J. He, Plano West Senior High School
Cody X. Huang, Plano West Senior High School
William J. Huang, Plano West Senior High School
Agrim Jaimini, Plano West Senior High School
Manas Jain, Plano East Senior High School
Albert R. Jiang, Plano West Senior High School
Pranav R. Kalakuntla, Plano West Senior High School
Joshua Kambala, Plano West Senior High School
Joy H. Kim, Plano Senior High School
Ava E. Koehne, Plano Senior High School
Tejas R. Krishnan, Plano East Senior High School
Varun V. Kudva, Plano East Senior High School
Aaruush Kulkarni, Plano West Senior High School
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Isha S. Kurlekar, Plano East Senior High School
Saharsh S. Lavu, Plano West Senior High School
Hung K. Le, Plano Senior High School
Katherine Y. Lee, Plano West Senior High School
William A. Lee, Plano East Senior High School
Natalie Lei, Plano Senior High School
Jeremy R. Levine, Plano East Senior High School
Andrew Y. Li, Plano West Senior High School
Amy Z. Lin, Plano West Senior High School
Audrey J. Lin, Plano East Senior High School
Maddox E. Lin, Plano West Senior High School
Ryan E. Lin, Plano West Senior High School
Amitha N. Mandava, Plano East Senior High School
Siri Mokkala, Plano East Senior High School
Jayanth K. Muthu, Plano West Senior High School
Shruthi S. Nadathur, Plano West Senior High School
Jai Pal, Plano Senior High School
Ananshi P. Patel, Plano West Senior High School
Krish M. Patel, Plano West Senior High School
Alexandria Pinto, Plano West Senior High School
Suden Prashar, Plano West Senior High School
Andy E. Qin, Plano West Senior High School
Tessa Radke, Plano Senior High School
Zayd Rizwan, Plano East Senior High School
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Kaaviya Shenbaharaman, Plano West Senior High School
Justin B. Simms, Plano East Senior High School
Harini Soundar, Plano West Senior High School
Natalie G. Tan, Plano East Senior High School
Samanyu Tatineni, Plano West Senior High School
Aaryan Tomar, Plano West Senior High School
Sweta R. Valisammagari, Plano East Senior High School
Noel Varghese, Plano East Senior High School
Vivek Venkataraman, Plano West Senior High School
Prisha Vithalani, Plano West Senior High School
Kyra N. Vo, Plano East Senior High School
Yijin J. Wang-Bai, Plano West Senior High School
Caden D. Warner, Plano East Senior High School
Ryan L. Watson, Plano East Senior High School
Eve Yang, Plano East Senior High School
Melody S. Yang, Plano West Senior High School
Allison Zhang, Plano West Senior High School
Raymond S. Zhang, Plano West Senior High School
Alysa Zhao, Plano East Senior High School
Alex Zheng, Plano West Senior High School
Landon J. Zheng, Plano Senior High School
Aaron Zhou, Plano West Senior High School
Grace Zou, Plano West Senior High School
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*This list includes students who have a publications consent and release form on file with the district.