50 San Ramon Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

SAN RAMON, CA — Fifty students who attend school in San Ramon were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced.

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 San Ramon received PSAT/NMSQT exam scores high enough to place them in the top one percent of US high school seniors:

California High School

1. Tobias Ding
2. Daven Ehrlich
3. Apoorva Gudisay
4. Kavin Jain
5. Ryan Kwan
6. Gleb Markovskii
7. Stephanie Moore
8. Dmitrii Morov
9. Avery Ngo
10. Sushrut Pola
11. Aariv Rawat
12. Vidhi Thakkar
13. Annalise Wedewer
14. Sophia Yin

Dougherty Valley High School

1. Anirudh Ayyadevara
2. Agastya Bhardwaj
3. Abir Bhatia
4. Kyle Chen
5. Vedanth Dala
6. Divya Gill
7. Felix Guo
8. Rishi Jain
9. Anushka Kabra
10. Rhea Karthik
11. Anjani Lal
12. Jiarong Liu
13. Timothy Liu
14. Patrick Lou
15. Aditya Maram
16. Ethan Nguyen
17. Varshaa Nuthi
18. Anshika Poruri
19. Avyay Ramaswamy
20. Nikhil Rao
21. Samarth Rao
22. Kavya Samudrala
23. Ishaan Savla
24. Abhinav Shah
25. Anuraag Shaligram
26. Prianca Sharan
27. Aaron Shen
28. Srishti Sripada
29. Aahna Thottempudi
30. Robert Wang
31. Nicholas Wong
32. Eric Wu
33. Julia Xiang
34. Victor Ying
35. Jerry Zhou

Homeschool / Online School

1. Joshua Tittiranonda

Nearby, 16 students in Danville were named semifinalists; 34 in Dublin, 65 in Pleasanton, and 10 in Livermore.