East Cobb students named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

UPDATED, 10:16 a.m. Friday: The CCSD has provided the names of an additional 12 students from Wheeler to its original release that were initially omitted. The figures in the story reflect those changes. — WP

A total of 71 East Cobb students have been named semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarships, the Cobb County School District announced today (a per-school list follows below).

Of the East Cobb students named semifinalists, 33 come from Walton High School, and 19 more are students at Wheeler High School. According to the CCSD, Walton has the second-highest number of semifinalists for any school in Georgia. Kell, Lassiter and Pope all had semifinalists, and Cobb schools overall had 82 semifinalists.

A CCSD release explains the program and process from here:National Merit Scholarships, East Cobb students

“These academically-talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $32 million that will be offered next spring. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.”

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Here are the East Cobb students named as semifinalists, listed by school:

Kell High School

Mitchell Q. Gacuzana

Lassiter High School

Radhesh D. Amin, Christopher L. Butcher, Christopher W. Clark, Justin Q. Coleman, Jerry J. Harrison, Virginia J. Langmaid, Seth A. Nye, Anastasia A. Onyango, Oliver J. Park, Samuel R. Quiroz, Brenna Salkin, Kyle T. Waldner, Seo Y. Yoo

Pope High School

Francesca Burke, Ellie R. Coe, Caleigh A. Cullinan, Suzanna A. Jiwani, David A. Reingold

Walton High School

Kento M. Arendt, Jiwoo Bae, Harper S. Barbaree, Eli M. Burstiner, Carlson L. Chiles, Daniel Cho, Andrew H. Chyong, Clayton J. Eshleman, Catherine Fan, Kaylynn L. Hiller, Daniel C. Hudadoff, John C. Hults, Elaine S. Hwang, Bita Jadali, Tiffany N. Jeng, Gina J. Kang, Laura K. Key, Hyunjin A. Kim, Lucas Y. Kuan, Jayanth Kumar, Luke H. Lavin, Eileen W. Law, Cecelia I. Lu, Harsimran Minhas, Jacob H. Moore, Robert A. Morgan, Siddharth J. Natham, Wesley D. Nourachi, Adarshini Raja, Akshat V. Sistla, Wendy Yao, Wooju R. Yim, Grace K. Zhou

 Wheeler High School

Andrew R. Benecchi, Shawn M. Doss, Chibuzor I. Eduzor, Kevin Fan, Rohan R. George, Nikhil I. Jindia, Dhananjay Khazanchi, Jeet Kothari, Erin Z. Leydon, Alexander Madison, Melam Master, Colin T. McMillen, Anusha Moudgal, Arvin T. Poddar, Suyash Rajesh, Amithav B. Reddy, Michael A. Shible, Sofiya Vyshnya, Charles A. Wood

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