• 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.


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • *This list includes students who have a publications consent and release form on file with the district.