39 Edison, Metuchen Students Up For National Merit Scholarship

EDISON, NJ — The 2019 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists were announced today, and 39 students from high schools in Edison and Metuchen were nominated for the honor.

The students are among 16,000 students honored nationwide. 7,500 scholarships will be awarded to the scholarship finalists next spring. Students qualify by scoring highly on the 2017 PSATs. They must them submit a scholarship application, and show that they have an outstanding academic record.

The students honored from Bishop George Ahr are:

• Bhavsar, Ishan B.

The students honored from Edison High School are:

• Chundi, Gnaneswar R.
• Prasad, Sanjiv
• Ramesh, Sandeep
• Zhou, Jeffery

The students honored from Middlesex County Academy for Science, Math, and Engineering Technologies are:

• Pathak, Yoganand
• Sreeni, Saneel
• Sun, Glenn S.
• Tang, Kevin
• Vemula, Sudheshna

The students honored from J.P. Stevens are:

• Bao, Kylen W.
• Behan, Stephanie K.
• Bhanushali, Sanjana P.
• Bhattacharya, Aditi
• Chang, Dylan P.
• Chen, Samuel M.
• Dublish, Nikha
• Jani, Ameel
• Jayaprakash, Nethra
• Jiang, Anna S.
• Jiang, Brian X.
• Kollu, Lekhya
• Li, Calvin F.
• Liu, Matthew S.
• Menon, Karan R.
• Nakhre, Arush
• Pamireddy, Shravani
• Pan, Kennice K.
• Park, Alison
• Patel, Arnav
• Selvakumar, Priyan
• Wang, Adrian
• Wang, Joshua M.
• Xie, Alex

The students honored from Wardlaw Hartridge are:

• Menon, Ayush
• Patel, Sanjna G.

• The students honored from Metuchen High School are:
• Lu, Sean Y.
• Walker, Liam M.

The students honored from St. Joe's High School are:

• Botting, Michael J.

Finalists will be announced in in February, and winners will be announced between April and July.

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