Wisconsin’s National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced

WISCONSIN — Hundreds of students from Wisconsin are semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship Program.

About 16,000 students from across the country are semifinalists and will go on to compete for some 7,500 scholarships that will be awarded in the spring. According to the scholarship program, about 95 percent of students will make it to the finalist round and about half of all finalists will win a scholarship.

There are three different types of scholarships awarded in the spring as part of the program, including scholarships financed by corporations and colleges. The scholarships total $30 million.

The program says semifinalists must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn either an SAT or ACT score that confirms their earlier performance on the qualifying test.

See The Semifinalists Across Wisconsin Patches:

• Greendale's National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced
• Franklin National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced
• 7 Shorewood Students Are National Merit Semifinalists
• New Berlin's National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
• Whitefish Bay National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced
• Wauwatosa's National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced
• Waukesha's National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced
• Brookfield's National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Announced

Here are the Wisconsin semifinalists:

Appleton:
Appleton North High School

• Julia Hartlep
• Kyoungmin Lee
• Zachary Munson
• Ryan Nahm
• Mihir Uberoi

Green Bay:
Ashwaubenon High School

• Natalia Schiegg

Bay Port High School

• Connor Behrend
• David Decker
• Rohan Gala
• Jadyn Wenner

East High School

• Peter Kiernan

Notre Dame Academy

• Triston Behren
• Alan James
• Nicholas Massabni
• Christopher Mitchell
• Alexander Prikockis

Preble High School

• Samantha Hoefs

Southwest High School

• Elana Heiser

Hudson:

Hudson High School

• Manon Field
• Ella Quiney

Madison:

East High School

• Samuel Rickert

Edgewood High School

• Sarah Cook
• Hudson Gehrke
• Isaac Thelen

James Madison Memorial High School

• Regan Banaszak
• Thavida Johnston
• Jacob Kennedy
• Ananya Krishna
• Clarissa Kuster
• Amy Qiao
• Felipe Rey
• Julia Votava

West High School

• Madeleine Ehlenbach
• Simon Johnson
• Madeline Arpaci-Dusseau
• Sorin Caldararu
• Emma Elsdon
• Alice Hegeman
• Chaunjie Jin
• Simon Kissel
• Abby Lin
• Emilia Nicometo
• Nana Osaki
• Eliza Siebers
• Anna Wang
• Bailey Wieland
• Phoebe Wrycha
• Simon Yang
• Rohan Yethiraj

Menomonee Falls:

Menomonee Falls High School

• Siya Mahajan

Milwaukee:

Divine Savior - Holy Angels High School

• Adela Grogan
• Grace Organ

Rufus King International School

• Renee Harris

Marquette University High School

• David Arthur
• Benjamin Deguire
• Keegan Doyle
• Adit Gupta
• Owen Ledger
• Zachary Ostrand
• Nathan Petrucci
• Thomas Rose
• Patrick Walsh
• John Wood
• Luke Wronski

University School

• Buwei Chen
• Christian Ford
• Zadan Mason
• Ibrahim Motlani
• Shaan Sharma
• Logan Walls
• Joseph Zimmerman

Wisconsin Lutheran High School

• Benjamin Doerr
• Nicholas Johnston
• Kwangje Sa

Muskego:

Muskego High School

• Tyler Fischer
• Jessica Miron
• Katherine Olson

Sussex:

Hamilton High School

• Dhruv Ahuja
• Alayna Fry
• Aayush Iyengar
• Nicolas Vera Paez

To make it to the finalist stage, students have to submit details about their academic record, participation in school and community activities, leadership abilities and more