Area Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

Here are the area's semifinalists for the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. These students are among about 16,000 semifinalists who will go on to compete for the title of "finalists," which will afford the students scholarship opportunities.

For a full list of Michigan's semifinalists, click here.

•  Buchanan, Cailin A.
•  Gollapudi, Sheba
•  Harding, Kendra L.
•  Holtsclaw, Conrad R.
•  Jang, Hyeyoun
•  Micklas, Madison D.
•  Morgan, Nicholas C.
•  Neoh, Dyanne
•  Qi, Xuanxin
•  Wang, Stephen A.

•  Inturi, Soumith K.
•  Yu, Alexander T.

•  Ahlborn, Joshua D.
•  Davis, Zachary B.
•  Kogut, Kaitlin R.
•  Lupusoru, Adrian

NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL

•  Dorazio, Palmer J.
•  Siatczynski, Matthew P.
•  Stuart, Sean C.

CRANBROOK KINGSWOOD

•  Davis, Bryan C.
•  Hotchkiss, Victoria C.
•  Kernosek, Kyle R.
•  Kim, Eric
•  Liu, Vivian Y.
•  Maripudi, Snehaa
•  Mooney, Isaac A.
•  Park, Sanghoon
•  Rocher, Evan A.
•  Ross, Adam S.
•  Strauss, Hannah I.
•  Wilson, Andrew J.
•  Zucker, Sophie R.

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

•  Borders, Veronica
•  Chang, Catherine H.
•  Chen, Daniel
•  De Souza, Annika L.
•  Ege, Cansu
•  Gaur, Mehul
•  Gu, Kangling
•  Hu, Brian
•  Jena, Siddhartha G.
•  Karra, Saratteja
•  Kumar, Deepak
•  Lee, Brian H.
•  Liang, Linda Y.
•  Liu, Alice Y.
•  Liu, Jordan M.
•  Mahajan, Deepti
•  Mohammed, Saara A.
•  Mubeen, Majid
•  Mukundan, Ananya
•  Ojo, Gabriel
•  Patankar, Harshavardha Y.
•  Rahman, Tahsin M.
•  Rajachudamani, Samrudh
•  Seetharaman, Yogesh
•  Sriranga, Preethi U.
•  Stannard, Blaine
•  Sulibhavi, Anita
•  Suresh, Raagini
•  Tsai, Brendan
•  Walrad, Veronica R.
•  Wang, Frank A.
•  Wang, Ying
•  Yan, Derick

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation is an organization that is designed to honor academically talented U.S. high school students. Since its inception more than 50 years ago, it has recognized 2.9 million students and provided more than 360,000 scholarships worth more than $1.4 billion.