Sixty-Six Lake Washington School District Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

Press release from the Lake Washington School District:

September 16, 2021

Redmond, Wash. – Sixty-six Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. That is the most ever for LWSD. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists yesterday.

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. More than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $30 million.

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Lake Washington School District National Merit Semifinalists*:

Eastlake High School

• Anika Arugunta (Sammamish)
• Anjana Begur (Redmond)
• Abhimanyu R. Bondre (Sammamish)
• Aadi S. Dalia (Sammamish)
• Medhy Goel (Sammamish)
• Ryan Huang (Sammamish)
• Jaeden D. Kapur (Sammamish)
• Preksha Mittal (Sammamish)
• Natasha S. Murugan (Sammamish)
• Suhani Nog (Sammamish)
• Hayden J. Rundle (Sammamish)
• Sheshank Shankar (Sammamish)
• Kseniya Tokareva (Sammamish)
• Christine X. Ye (Sammamish)
  

International Community School

• Kaylee L. Allen (Kirkland)
• Hoda Ayad (Redmond)
• Kristian S. Bridgeb (Kirkland)
• Sophia I. Dettweiler (Bellevue)
• Jasmine T. Herri (Sammamish)
• Julia G. Lee (Sammamish)
• Anna Nguyen (Redmond)
• Benjamin T. Yu (Redmond)
  

Juanita High School

• Dhruv Ashok (Kirkland)
• Ron Dubinsky (Woodinville)
• Esther M. Liu (Kirkland)
• Ivan Maykov (Kirkland)
• Anaya Pandit (Kirkland)
  

Lake Washington High School

• Helena A. Kaikkonen (Redmond)
• Maria E. Strathy (Redmond)
  

Redmond High School

• Maya W. Adelman (Redmond)
• Sayan Bhatia (Redmond)
• Saidhruv Chittamuri (Redmond)
• Krish Jain (Redmond)
• Ronak Jaisalmeria (Redmond)
• Conor Kennedy (Redmond)
• Siya Kulkarni (Redmond)
• Ana A. Letca (Redmond)
• Carmen Lopez-Munoz (Redmond)
• Conan Lu (Redmond)
• Jason Miller (Redmond)
• Brianna J. Odle (Redmond)
• Anish M. Pal (Redmond)
• Sahana Sateesh (Redmond)
• Sameeksha Sharma (Redmond)
• Dhruv K. Srinivasan (Redmond)
• Cindy X. Su (Redmond)
• Christopher M. Wang (Redmond)
• Everett W. Wang (Redmond)
• Maximilian Y. Wang (Redmond)
• Andrea Y. Wu (Redmond)
• Eric Zhou (Redmond)
• David S. Zhu (Redmond)

Nikola Tesla STEM High School

• Ryan W. Chan (Kirkland)
• Saketh Dhulipalla (Sammamish)
• Shivank Dutt (Redmond)
• Jennifer Hu (Sammamish)
• Rohan Iyer (Woodinville)
• Evan F. Li (Redmond)
• Yuchen Li (Sammamish)
• Julia Z. Liu (Redmond)
• Gavin R. Pai (Kirkland)
• Alexander Potra (Redmond)
• Aaditya V. Prasad (Sammamish)
• Pauline Saveliev (Redmond)
• Maxwell J. Soh (Redmond)
• Catherine Yu (Kirkland)

* Note: Photos available on request.

This press release was produced by the Lake Washington School District. The views expressed are the author's own.