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Oct. 11, 2018 - 191 Plano ISD Seniors Receive Commended Recognition in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program

Among 34,000 commended students throughout the nation, 191 Plano ISD seniors have received letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended students are named on the basis of a nationally applied selection index score that may vary from year to year. Although they will not continue in the 2019 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, commended students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2019 competition by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Some of these students do become candidates for special scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.
 
Congratulations to the following academically talented students:
 

Plano ISD Academy High School

  • Vaibhavi Hemasundar
  • Chinmaya Joshi
  • Gregory Kellmeyer
  • Nikhita Ramanujam

Plano East Senior High School

  • Hunter R. Akridge
  • Kaylie A. Ayres
  • Bryce S. Banks
  • Abigail L. Blasingame
  • Jeremiah H. Budiman
  • Suzie S. Chang
  • Gregory R. Colonescu
  • Teagan B. Downey
  • Alvern E. Dyer
  • Fenisha R. Franklin
  • Grace A. Geevarghese
  • Trent S. Haines
  • Matthew C. Hardy
  • Rakin Hasan
  • Hunter A. Helms
  • Brenna L. Hurley
  • Ahmed Iqbal
  • Shaurya Jain
  • Soneet Kapadia
  • Spencer Lee
  • Austin Li
  • Alexander Lin
  • Caroline G. Mott
  • Irika R. Nalla
  • Sindhu Nemanan
  • Dristi M. Patel
  • Nadeem J. Patel
  • Vandan L. Patel
  • Rachael Pham
  • Tanner M. Pullen
  • Natasha Raman
  • Snehith S. Rayavaram
  • Ishaaq M. Razack
  • Anna K. Richardson
  • Sharin Salam
  • George R. Sayre
  • Chinmay K. Senapathi
  • Ashay A. Shah
  • Ashna A. Shah
  • Haniya J. Siddiqui
  • Thomas A. Simms
  • Max A. Smith
  • Varad V. Thorat
  • Lauren N. Truong
  • Naveen Vimalathas
  • Rishi S. Virani
  • Andrew D. Vu
  • Ansley M. Whitley
  • Kaitlyn Yuan

 Plano Senior High School

  • SuraJ R. Bhat
  • Reet Bhujel
  • Eric L. Chen
  • Eshan J. Chhabra
  • Keri E. Christian
  • Alyssa M. Cuff
  • Abigail D. Decoursin
  • Saavni N. Desai
  • Jordan D. Doan
  • Mehr Hakim
  • Victoria J. Hall
  • Ariel Head
  • Ashlyn L. Hillyard
  • Pranav R. Jagada
  • Daniel Judy
  • Mijwad A. Kabir
  • Hsiang Chien Ko
  • Nicole P. Kuo
  • Kaleo C. Lee
  • Benjamin G. Li
  • Luke S. Li
  • I-Jung E. Lin
  • Austin D. Liu
  • Leon Liu
  • Lillian Marquis
  • Amanda M. Nguyen
  • Abigail K. Parnell
  • Anvith K. Potluri
  • Ryan A. Priest
  • Paul D. Romero
  • Anuhya R. Sandadi
  • Jacob A. Schmidt
  • Olivia P. Shih
  • Timothy W. Situ
  • Ammarita L. Sorenson
  • Aleena Syed
  • Kushaal K. Vaidya
  • Howard H. Yen
  • Everlee A. Yong
  • Caleb J. Yu
  • Jonathan Zhao
  • Steven Zhao

 Plano West Senior High School

  • Alexander Akomer
  • Alyssa N. Akomer
  • Victoria A. Ardelean
  • Jacob Bakhshian
  • Ayan Barua
  • Ryan Beeler
  • Shanmukha S. Bodapati
  • Ishan S. Brar
  • Jack T. Butler
  • Charles Cao
  • Lucia Carbajal
  • Alexander J. Carruth
  • Erica Chang
  • Neel S. Chavan
  • Dhruv Chawla
  • Albert Y. Chen
  • Xige M. Chen
  • Zachary H. Chin
  • Lamont Chu
  • Sukfil Chun
  • Eve S. Dauber
  • Thomas W. Dean
  • Madison Doran
  • Kaci Emrich
  • Max R. Fan
  • Madeleine A. Farmer
  • Dhruv Gaur
  • Sedona R. Giambalvo
  • Nathan R. Govindarajan
  • Aditya S. Guin
  • Pranay R. Gundam
  • Anusri Gunde
  • Anika B. Gupta
  • Chengzhi Han
  • Jenna L. Hart
  • Hannah M. Ho
  • Kendra H. Huang
  • Ayush G. Iyer
  • Hrithik Jha
  • Ryan J. Kafka
  • Riya Kattumenu
  • Anjala D. Katuri
  • Aarushi Khandelwal
  • Rohan Khera
  • Francis T. Khuong
  • Elliot Kim
  • Caroline E. Krape
  • Lauren Kung
  • Annette S. Kurian
  • Irena M. Lee
  • Yenna Lee-Gannon
  • Tiffany K. Li
  • Brian H. Liu
  • Malvika Manoj
  • Basir Mansoor
  • Hayden M. Mant
  • Emory J. McDowell
  • Ryan M. McSweeney
  • Nihal Mitta
  • Seyed Parsa Modareszadeh Esfahan
  • Sojung Moon
  • Shree Mukherjee
  • Soham Mukherjee
  • Rahul K. Naik
  • Vaibav Nandeesh
  • Novin E. Nekoui
  • Irene Y. Park
  • Varun Pasapula
  • Dhvani M. Patel
  • Shachi J. Patel
  • Rayyan Punjani
  • Nabeeha K. Qazi
  • Jessica L. Qiu
  • Andrei Racila
  • Viswajith Rajagopalan
  • Emiko L. Rinkliff
  • Manish Samson
  • Mark Schara
  • Joseph K. Servin
  • Shreyas Sharma
  • Jared D. Skoro
  • Nadav Spitz
  • Aahir Srinath
  • Daniel Sun
  • David L. Tallant
  • Jenny Tan
  • Anna Wakita
  • Derik H. Wang
  • Derex C. Wangmang
  • Sophia A. Warner
  • William J. Waters
  • Harrison J. Wu
  • Jennifer Xia
  • Benjamin Z. Xu
  • Hunter Zacha
  • Michelle W. Zhang