65 Pleasanton Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

PLEASANTON, CA — 65 students who attend school in Pleasanton were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced. This marks the highest number in the Tri-Valley and one of the highest in the Bay Area.

The students joined more than 16,000 students in the running to be named a National Merit Scholar, and receive a $2500 scholarship to help them further their educations. Students from this same list may be offered scholarships from colleges, universities and their parents' employers.

The following semifinalists in Pleasanton received PSAT/NMSQT exam scores high enough to place them in the top one percent of US high school seniors:

Amador Valley High School

1. Karthik Anbazhagan
2. Yash Balaji
3. Rishab Burli
4. Emily Choe
5. Jayden Choi
6. Anna Clark
7. Riana Das
8. Enakshi Devasarma
9. Allen Ding
10. Asher Ding
11. Lydia Frey
12. Ryan Fu
13. Rohan Garg
14. Nathan Han
15. Samuel Han
16. Nathaniel Hong
17. Thomas Iordache
18. Pradeep Kadaba
19. Brendan Kim
20. Anjali Kukkamalla
21. Shravani Kurapati
22. Jio Lee
23. Isabel Lim
24. Erick Liu
25. Michael Liu
26. Yilin Liu
27. Cindy Long
28. Ella Min
29. Daniel Nie
30. Hanyu Niu
31. Jerry Peng
32. Bryce Riegels
33. Jacob Rosler
34. Aaron Shaffer
35. Siddhan Shah
36. Stella Short
37. Daniel Su
38. Amy Sun
39. Yitong Tang
40. Daniel Wang
41. Victor Yang
42. David Zhou
43. Reese Zhou

Foothill High School

1. Yichen Cai
2. Derek Chang
3. Joshua Dai
4. Athithan Elamaran
5. Aarnav Gupta
6. Zachary Ho
7. Soham Jani
8. Allen John
9. Hasini Kumar
10. Brandon Kong
11. Nikhil Martha
12. Vivian Miller
13. William Peng
14. Gia-Linh Phan
15. Ryan Pushkarna
16. Saumya Raval
17. Abhigyan Sarkar
18. Laksh Sharma
19. Jonah Wen
20. Saahas Yamsani
21. Katherine Yoo

Nearby, 16 student in Danville were named semifinalists; 50 in San Ramon, 34 in Dublin, and 10 in Livermore.