- Plano Independent School District
- 105 National Merit Semifinalists, 2023
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105 National Merit Semifinalists, 2023
September 23, 2022
Plano ISD joins with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) to congratulate 105 Plano ISD National Merit Program® semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Students entered the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of 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. 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. Published below are students with approved publication releases on file. Congratulations to the following students:
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Josephine A. Allred – Plano East Senior High
Otto Q. Beall – Plano East Senior High
Caroline M. Behnke – Plano East Senior High
Shriya P. Bhat – Plano East Senior High
Jeremiah Boban – Plano West Senior High
Kristina M. Boulos – Plano East Senior High
Avi Chaturvedi – Plano West Senior High
Bruce M. Chen – Plano West Senior High
Ian Y. Chen – Plano West Senior High
Aditi Choudhury – Plano West Senior High
Jeremy S. Chuah – Plano East Senior High
Christopher J. Chun – Plano West Senior High
Hannah Chung – Plano West Senior High
William Dai – Plano West Senior High
Anika P. Damle – Plano West Senior High
Adrian E. Flores – Plano East Senior High
Noya Gal – Plano Senior High
Ritwik Ganguly – Plano Senior High
Christopher D. Garfield Sebert – Plano West Senior High
Aashna M. Gautam – Plano West Senior High
Amrit Ghosh – Plano East Senior High
Jackson M. Graff – Plano West Senior High
Aaron W. Guo – Plano West Senior High
Katherine L. Han – Plano West Senior High
Audrey S. He – Plano West Senior High
Emma B. Hrasko – Plano Senior High
Fiona Huang – Plano West Senior High
Syed A. Husain – Plano West Senior High
Dhanush Jain – Plano East Senior High
Shriya Jain – Plano East Senior High
Akash P. Jape – Plano West Senior High
Jaeha Jung – Plano West Senior High
Swara S. Kale – Plano West Senior High
Benjamin D. Kellmeyer – Academy High School
Dana Kim – Plano West Senior High
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Renee Y. Kim – Plano West Senior High
Vikrant Kolli – Plano East Senior High
Amit R. Konda – Plano West Senior High
Neel Kondeti – Plano West Senior High
Yash A. Kukrecha – Plano West Senior High
Atharv G. Kulkarni – Plano West Senior High
Olivia J. Lauderback – Plano East Senior High
Anthony N. Le – Plano East Senior High
Gordon K. Lee – Plano West Senior High
Kyle S. Letterer – Plano West Senior High
Byron B. Li – Plano West Senior High
Eric W. Li – Plano West Senior High
Owen N. Liebnick – Plano West Senior High
Phoena Z. Lin – Plano West Senior High
Mansi Lohtia – Plano West Senior High
Patrick Y. Lu – Plano West Senior High
Thomas K. Luong – Plano West Senior High
Satvik Mahendra – Plano West Senior High
Zahra Mahmood – Plano East Senior High
Drake R. McAdams – Plano West Senior High
Pierce W. McAdams – Plano West Senior High
Rahi D. Mehta – Plano East Senior High
Ziye Mei – Plano West Senior High
Jude B. Meyer – Plano Senior High
Aditya S. Mishra – Plano East Senior High
Gauri Mittal – Plano East Senior High
Devika Nair – Plano West Senior High
Sanika P. Nandpure – Plano East Senior High
Karthik V. Nemana – Plano East Senior High
Sareen J. Patel – Plano West Senior High
Gautam Penna – Plano East Senior High
Preston S. Phillips – Plano West Senior High
Evelyn A. Pugliese – Plano East Senior High
Bennett L. Radtke– Plano Senior High
Adithi L. Rallapalli – Plano West Senior High
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Shakti Ramakrishna – Plano East Senior High
Tarunkrish Ramji – Plano West Senior High
Raghav A. Ramki – Plano East Senior High
Sanjana G. Rentala – Plano West Senior High
Matthew J. Rippin – Plano Senior High
Uzair A. Saeed – Plano East Senior High
Ashish Samson – Plano West Senior High
Tarun L. Sankar – Plano West Senior High
Sana Shahid – Plano East Senior High
Tianyu Shen – Plano West Senior High
Jeremy Sheng – Plano East Senior High
Nabeeha M. Siddiqui – Plano East Senior High
Jai Singh – Plano West Senior High
Srjana Srivatsa – Plano West Senior High
Srijan Sundar – Plano East Senior High
Matthew M. Tran – Plano East Senior High
Madeline L. Tsao – Plano West Senior High
Parthiv B. Varanasi – Plano East Senior High
Clint J. Wang – Plano East Senior High
Selina Wang – Plano East Senior High
Ian P. Wang – Plano West Senior High
Nathan J. Wang – Plano West Senior High
Colin S. Wong – Academy High School
Jessica Xu – Plano West Senior High
Allen Yan – Plano West Senior High
Angelina M. Yang – Plano West Senior High
Stephen Yang – Plano West Senior High
Alena Y. Zhang – Plano West Senior High
Ashley J. Zhang – Plano West Senior High
Eric H Zhao – Plano East Senior High
Avery B. Zhao – Plano West Senior High
Grace J. Zheng – Plano West Senior High
Alan Zhou – Plano West Senior High
Justin J. Zhu – Plano West Senior High