Fremont Students Awarded Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships

FREMONT, CA — Five Fremont students received corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 94 corporations, foundations, and business organizations. Finalists are either children of employees, residents of the communities served by the companies, or plan to pursue college majors or careers the companies wish to encourage.

The students were among 830 high school seniors nationally who received scholarships funded by 124 companies. In September, more than 16,000 semifinalists were selected on the basis of their PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores. To advance to the finalist round, semifinalists needed to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed or recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm their qualifying test performance.
The awards range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year, and most are renewable for up to four years at an accredited college or university.

Below are the finalists’ names, schools, scholarship names, and probable career fields:

• Mihir S. Gadre, Irvington High School, NVIDIA CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP; Probable career field: Bioengineering
• Shamak Gowda, Basis Independent School, JOHNSON & JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP;
  Probable career field: Electrical Engineering
• Advait Sankaran, Washington High School, NVIDIA CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP;
  Probable career field: Software Engineering
• Raina Wu, Mission San Jose High School, NVIDIA CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP;
  Probable career field: Healthcare
• Alexander Zhao, Mission San Jose High School, AMETEK SCHOLARSHIP;
  Probable career field: Electrical Engineering

  
  Winners of the National Merit $2500 Scholarships will be announced May 7, and the winners of college-sponsored Merit Scholarships will be announcedJune 4 and July 14. By the end of the 2025, more than 6,930 students nationwide will have earned National Merit Scholarships totaling approximately $26 million, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.