16 Cupertino Students Named National Merit Scholars

CUPERTINO - The 2016 National Merit $2500 scholarship winners were announced Wednesday, and Santa Clara Valley students are well represented on the list.

16 students from Cupertino were honored by a panel of judges to have the "strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies."

12 students from Saratoga were named to the list, while Sunnyvale had 11 students honored.

Palo Alto honors were given to 10 students. Los Altos had five students honored, Santa Clara and Mountain View had three, and Los Gatos and Milpitas each claimed two National Merit scholars.

One student was honored from Campbell.

Here is the complete list of students named from Cupertino:

• Jeremy Chen CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Tiffany Ann Chien CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Software Engineering - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Julia H. Cho CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Medicine - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Allana A. Evans CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Computer Science - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Irene Fu CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Economics - CUPERTINO H. S., CUPERTINO
• Kirthi R. Gomatam CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Business - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Joseph Hsiung CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Medicine - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Karen Qi CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Medicine - HARKER SCHOOL, SAN JOSE
• Ayush Sangari CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Undecided - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO
• Anin Sayana CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Neurobiology - BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, SAN JOSE
• Kedar H. Thakkar CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Computer Science - CUPERTINO H. S., CUPERTINO
• Maya Varma CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Bioengineering - PRESENTATION H. S., SAN JOSE
• Vrinda D. Vasavada CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Engineering - ST. FRANCIS H. S., MOUNTAIN VIEW
• Manogna Vemulapati CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Computer Science - ST. FRANCIS H. S., MOUNTAIN VIEW
• Kevin H. Yang CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Computer Science - CUPERTINO H. S., CUPERTINO
• Albert S. Zeng CUPERTINO 95014 - Probable career field: Entrepreneurship - MONTA VISTA H. S., CUPERTINO

Here is the complete list of students named from California.

The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.

According to officials, the number of winners named in each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the nation’s graduating high school seniors.

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