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The National Merit Scholarship Program has announced its 2025 semifinalists in Orange County.
More than 16,000 high school seniors were selected across the nation to move forward in the running for the nearly $26 million the National Merit program will award in scholarships in the spring.
Next, the students will need to meet a number of requirements to compete for the scholarships, including submitting a detailed application, writing an essay and showing an “outstanding academic record” and leadership and service in the community. The nonprofit said about 95% are expected to advance to being finalists for the 6,870 scholarships that will be awarded in the spring.
The National Merit program is nearly 70 years old.
Here are the Orange County high school students named semifinalists according to this year’s announced list:
Danielle Halphide
Jackson Milby
Noah Selvan
Ian Song
Rohan Hassain
Alexandr Kim
Matthew Hoang
Shivali Sharma
Francis Hollis
Noelle Kim
Siheon Lee
Cheuk Fu Ian Pau
Ava Shvartsman
Evangeline Eng
Dominic M. Lee
Allison Kim
Emily Le
Janice D. Lee
Joseph J. Lee
Khanh K. Nguyen
Veronica Y. Shao
Rachel J. Yoon
Read also: See the 2024 National Merit semifinalists here.
Jack A. Miller
Benjamin Nguyen
Jaquelyn Nguyen
Bonnie Lynch
Kiheon Kim
Celerina Lee
Matthew Ma
Zayne Shah
Iman H. Babiker
Zoey C. Bahng
Addison B. Chan
Evan Y. Chen
Eric W. Choi
Stephen Eng
Elizabeth J. Fu
Andrew N. Her
Tristan L. Hwang
Eunjun Jang
Soham P. Kulkarni
Nathan J. Lim
Sophia L. Liu
Xiyue Ma
Bhavna Malladi
Bianca Z. Naranjo
Noah T. Nguyen
Justin K. Park
Sara M. Patel
Aditya R. Peddi
Derek Y. Peng
Anya Pramanick
Victoria M. Rhee
Cloris F. Shi
Jack R. Simmonds
Diya Sreedhar
Matthew Y. Takagi
Andrew W. Tsai
Ethan H. Wang
Stanley M. Wang
Patricia Q. Wu
Yuqi Yang
Zhuoran Zhao
Jacqueline R. Zhou
Jaydon H. Vu
Isaac T. Chikami
Minh T. Nguyen
Huntington Beach
Dylan Yong
Nicholas R. Ridout
Madeleine Chang
Swaroop Kamble
Tyler Ly
Rachel Nazareth
Andy Nguyen
Luke Owyang
Srishti Pradhan
Gabrielle Wang
Luke Goddard
Ethan Lai
Matthew Paek
Leo Ranalli
Ishaan Gaikwad
Madilyn Judd
Lauren C. Lai
Ryan J. Lee
Emily Liu
Sumanth Sriram
Shreya Aithal
Kelly K. Au
Aadya Batra
Daniel Chai
Yufei Chen
Shao-Yuan Chung
Arnav Dhar
Jocelyn Q. Dinh
Vidisha Dutta
Neil Godse
Riya Gupta
Cole L. Haydon
Viraj H. Kadakia
Nathan Kang
Jasmine T. Le
Minseo Lim
Michael Lin
Nirav Michelsen
Christine Y. Nam
Ethan H. Pan
Stanley Suen
Jinsi Wang
Jayden L. Wong
Sophia J. Yang
Gregory Y. Bank
Jongmin Chae
Vivian L. Chang
Luke D. Chau
Kyle Y. He
Tiffany Kim
Eric Y. Lee
Vivian M. Lu
Mourya Nunna
Aditi A. Salunkhe
Ruhi V. Samudra
NIrmit Shah
Jaehun Shin
Luke H. Shin
Leyu Xie
Zijing Xu
Aarnav Yedla
Minglin Zhang
Blake I. Baek
Urmila Barathan
Aaron Chao
Kenneth Chen
Yufei Chen
Sophia Y. Dai
Quinne S. Davis
Victoria W. Fang
Abel C. George
Miles K. Hexun
Sky Jafar
Niklaus Jafary
Annie Jiang
Ashaley Jiang
David Y. Kim
Jed Kim-Ozaeta
Amy R. Lantz
Handersen P. Lee
Victor G. Li
Ocean K. Liauw
Jingxuan Liu
Aleksandr Naganov
Anugrah Naranatt
Daniel E. Niktash
Jayden C. Peng
Kayla N. Piedad
Agam S. Randhawa
Jonathan D. Szeto
Ryan C. Villadelgado
Claire C. Wen
David Z. Zhang
Zhe Zheng
Evan Zhong
Matthew Chang
Layne Funston
Xiang Li
Alex C. Lim
Alyssa P. Lu
Sukruti Pamarti
Charlotte C. Pham
Derrick K. Wong
Andrey Rosita
Frederic Butler
Lyric Hagen
Charlotte Barkehanai
Warren C. Carruth
Jacob D. Leung
Daniel C. Li
Vivian M. Moore
Tracy A. Nguyen
Avery M. Yew
Mira Zacheis
Justice T. Grier
Donovan James
Jennifer Jain
Colin Kerns
Grace Regier
Sahil Shah
Gavin Smith
James E. Leehealey
Naiya E. Sapru
Camille A. Tauro
Madeleine Chao
Emily Chen
Anna Gabriel
Katelyn Gan
Justin Graham
Benjamin Haworth
Sophia Isakov
Wanlin Jiang
Ian Kim
Harriet Lai
Jesse Lew
Christine Li
Frank Lin
Sophia Lin
Jacob Lynn
Bo Pang
Raquel Rybakova
Claire Sueyoshi
Evelyn Wang
Mingyue Wang
Jiaming Zhang
Sophia Zhou
Ethan Ahn
Valencia High
Samuel Choi
Makayla Chung
Saebyeok Keum
Yoojun Park
Evelyn Weng
Tesoro High
Ayush Ganguly
Michelle Guo
Jessie Li
Bryson Bisuna
Jack H. Ebner
Sydney A. Huynh
Lauren T. Kiani
Sophie Polay
Adam Tong
Solange Youssef
Alexa Edwards
Andrew C. Rusli
Justin E. Tam
Gabriela M. Afable
Alexis Chew
Elle Doughty
Matthew Bay
Yeeun Chung
James Conroy
Estella Keyoung
Hennah Kim
Katherine Kim
Matthew Martono
Samuel Parigela
Kaya Sparnicht
Justice Cheng
Jaiden Lee
Christopher Byun
Tyler Huynh
Amelia Schroeder
Bryan B. Nguyen
Katelyn T. Tu
Yorba Linda
Krish Dutta
Basim Jamal
Chase Kim
Avery Seaman
Megan Tsou
Note: This list was updated to include Valencia High’s Makayla Chung.
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