March 28, 2023

Plano ISD is excited to announce the names of 102* finalists in the 2023 National Merit® Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,250 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered this spring. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Plano ISD Academy High School

Benjamin Kellmeyer
Colin Wong

Plano East Senior High School

Josephine A. Allred
Otto Q. Beall 
Caroline M. Behnke
Shriya P. Bhat
Kristina M. Boulos 
Jeremy S. Chuah
Adrian E. Flores
Amrit Ghosh
Dhanush Jain
Shriya Jain
Vikrant Kolli
Olivia J. Lauderback
Anthony N. Le
Zahra Mahmood
Rahi Dipesh Mehta
Aditya S. Mishra
Gauri Mittal
Sanika P. Nandpure
Karthik V. Nemana
Gautam Penna
Evelyn A. Pugliese
Shakti Ramakrishna
Raghav A. Ramki
Uzair A. Saeed
Sana Shahid
Jeremy Sheng
Nabeeha M. Siddiqui
Srijan Sundar
Parthiv B. Varanassi
Clint J. Wang
Selina Wang
Eric H. Zhao

Plano Senior High School

Noya Gal
Ritwik Ganguly
Emma B. Hrasko
Jude B. Meyer
Matthew J. Rippin

Plano West Senior High School

Bruce M. Chen
Ian Y. Chen
Aditi Choudhury
Christopher J. Chun
Hannah Yong-Ai Chung
William Dai
Anika Damle
Christopher D. Garfield Sebert
Aashna M. Gautam
Jackson M. Graff
Aaron W. Guo
Audrey S. He
Fiona Huang
Syed Adil Husain
Akash P. Jape
Jaeha Jung
Swara S. Kale
Dana Kim
Renee Y. Kim
Amit R. Konda
Neel Kondeti
Yash A. Kukrecha
Atharv G. Kulkarni
Gordon K. Lee
Kyle S. Letterer
Byron B. Li
Eric W. Li
Owen N. Liebnick
Phoena Z. Lin
Mansi Lohtia
Patrick Y. Lu
Thomas K. Luong
Satvik Mahendra
Drake R. McAdams
Pierce W. McAdams
Devika Nair
Sareen J. Patel
Preston S. Phillips
Adithi L. Rallapalli
Tarunkrishna Ramji
Sanjana G. Rentala
Ashish Samson 
Tarun L. Sankar
Tianyu Shen
Eric Shi
Jai Singh
Srjana Srivatsa
Madeline L. Tsao
Ian P. Wang
Nathan J. Wang
Jessica Xu
Allen Yan
Angelina M. Yang
Stephen Yang
Alena Y. Zhang
Ashley J. Zhang
Avery B. Zhao
Grace J. Zheng
Alan Zhou
Justin J. Zhu

*2 Students unlisted due to publication restrictions