2025 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists announced

Students from five high schools in East Cobb are among the more than 16,000 semifinalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholarships.East Cobb National Merit Scholarship Program

It’s the first phase of a multi-step process to award college scholarships to 6,870 high school seniors totalling more than $26 million.

According to a release, “semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

“To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.

“A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.”

JOHNSON FERRY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

  • Abigail Fisher

LASSITER H. S.

  • Ella Arnett, Elizabeth Ballenger, Obadia Cao, Wilson Coombs, Samuel Garrow, Elizabeth George, Jack Hansen, Isaac Hoshide, Andrea Joya; Annika Le, Vikram Sharma, Nanea Trask, Caroline Young

POPE H. S.

  • Aanchal Acharya, Elizabeth Jones, Ariel Sadan, Duncan Wilson, Anna Wright

WALTON H. S.

  • Vipul Bansal, Adam Bethea, Jack Brawner, Christopher Chen, Michelle Gu, Madeline Halloran, Nathan Hsu, Sean Jiao, Medha Krishna, Navya Kumar, Hung Le, Eugene Li, Spencer Lieth, Eric Mo, Owen Murphy, Madeline Painter, Chloe Park, Connor Park, Dhriti Raguram, Carter Ray, Riley Rice, Sanjeev Shankar, Yaocen Shen, Siddhant Singh, Grayson Snow, Tyler Sprague, Nikhil Srinivasan, Christina Strakes, Rashidul Sultan, Ryan Tan, Simon Teh, Rishab Thiyagarajan, Theodore Thomas; Ella Tse, Isha Varughese, Adam Wang, Owen Wu, Grace Xie, Edward Yao, Tiffany Yao, William Zhao

WHEELER H. S.

  • Declan Amerault, Adele N. Ballantyne, Chauhan Abhay, Jaden Choi, Shachi Deo, Aishi Dev, Prisha Dev, Dagmawi Fasika, Jackson Frangos, John Hovsepian, Nathan Kiesel, Prajna Malla, Sidhartha Malla, Dhriti Naik, Fiona Peterson, Kavin Prabhakar, Aarnav Sadaria, Akash Singh, Kaushik Valiveti, Arshiya Vyas, Fredrick Wu, Julia Yu, Ethan Zhang

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