East Cobb National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced its initial batch of semifinalists for the 2022-23 school year, and Walton and Wheeler high schools lead the way for the Cobb County School District.

Of the 60 students, 44 come from high schools in East Cobb, including 18 from Walton and 16 from Wheeler.

National Merit Scholarships are awarded to high school seniors across the country based on academic performance, test scores and other requirements. This year, a total of $28 million in scholarship funding will be awarded.

Finalists will be chosen in the spring and will be eligible for scholarship aid in a variety of sources. Participants submit detailed applications and they must be endorsed and recommended by a high school official.

Students also write essays and are assessed on factors such as leadership abilities and honors and awards received.

“Merit Scholar designees are selected based on their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference,” the Corporation states.

Lassiter High School

• Kate Burke
• Matthew Cargill
• Erin Cooney
• Steven Murley
• Kathryn Rozboril

Pope High School

• Shaunak R. Karnik
• Amy E. Kokan
• Yujin Lim
• Sara B. Strobeck

Sprayberry High School

• Thomas A. George

Walton High School

• Amala Arun
• Samiha Bala
• Peter Fink
• Grace Hoyte
• Faith Huang
• Brian Kuang
• David Liu
• Ethan Liu
• Maayah Jameel
• Abhai Padiyar
• Owen Pumpian
• Ashley Rice
• Caleb Rieck
• Rohan Singh
• Tianyu Xu
• Tianyue Xu
• Alexander Xue
• Chaitanya Yetukuri

Wheeler High School

• Madison P. Bohm
• Charles M. Brubaker
• Ethan N. Chen
• Jack H. Fleishman
• Grace E. Gentner
• Maia G. Gillen
• Misha S. Gupta
• Rithu A. Hegde
• Tanvi S. Kamat
• Pooja J. Kanyadan
• Kabir A. Maindarkar
• Adetoun S. Oderinde
• Simran N. Patel
• Lakshmi A. Valliyappan
• Hanif A. Zaman
• Angie Zhu

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The first batch of National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for the 2021-22 school year have been announced, and they include quite a few students from Walton and Wheeler High schools in East Cobb.

The full list of East Cobb students is below; here’s some background on the program, which has 16,000 semifinalists nationwide:

These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.

To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and a high school offi cial 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.

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2022. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2022 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 362,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

INDEPENDENT STUDIES AT JOHNSON FERRY

• William L. Reese

LASSITER H. S.

• Faaris Hussain

POPE H. S.

• Patrick M. Astorga; Oluwaseminire A. Oloyede; Madeleine M. Stewart

SPRAYBERRY H. S.

• Bradley Scott

WALTON H. S.

• Zain M. Akram; Mark Arshavsky; Stephanie Bergman; Lawrence J. Cai; Wonho Choi; Fevin Felix; Fiona P. Guo; Sahil J. Handa; Katelyn L. Henry; Ryann A. Jacobson; Saloni Jain; Chinmay P. Joshi; Aadi Kadi; Sungwon Kim; Abhinav Kona; Abhishek Kona; Maxwell E. Leamy; Daniel Y. Liu; Vikas Malepati; Ana E. Mocklar; Cynthia Peng; Imaan A. Pirani; Neerav Ravirala; Aryan Roy; Advaith Shivaram; Jonathan Shu; Nairita S. Siddiqui; Lawrence A. Thomas; Kunling Tong; Abhay R. Vittal; Joseph M. Walter; Asad Yamin; Emma L. Zeng; Franklin S. Zhao

WHEELER H. S.

• Rhea Baghel; Evan Bauer; Smera V. Bhatia; Pranav R. Devarinti; Arjun J. Dewan; Carson D. Felton; Angela M. Francis; Archishma V. Goli; Kyle A. Hampton; Samyukta S. Iyer; Sujit Iyer; William P. Jewel; Charlie J. Jin; Kavita Kar; Nelitha E. Kulasiri; Nishka Mirkhelkar; Achyutan T. Narayanan; Vijay Shastri; Chirag Shetty; Emma G. Teng; Satya S. Tetali

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The first round of the National Merit Scholarship process for a new school year is underway, and a number of students from East Cobb high schools have been named semifinalists.

They’re among 16,000 nationwide vying for a variety of college scholarships whose recipients will be announced in the spring:

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, and write an essay.

From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notifi ed of this designation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.

LASSITER H. S.
Victoria Dutkiewicz
Aidan Payne
William Shutt

POPE H. S.
Allison D. Gentry
Ryan J. Meredith
Greg K. Park.
William G. Whitaker

SPRAYBERRY H. S.
Allison D. Mawn

WALTON H. S.
Sai Anoop Avunuri
Avi Balakirsky
Vedika Bhatnagar
Eric Brewster
Caroline Brooks
Tia Chacko
Jamison Clark
Emily Feren
Joseph Fisher
Cole Francis
Michael Fu
Nicholas Ge
Kathryn Gilk
Kamen Iliev
Alexander Krupp
Steven Liberman
Taneecia Natarajan Thirulokac
Aditya Palliyil
Emory Paul
Ronak Rana
Manuel Roglan
Shveta Shah
Banglue Wei
Grace Yan
Emily Yang

WHEELER H. S.
Vishaal Ganesh
Matthew House
Caroline Hugh
Anushka Jain
Vishaal Kareti
Dmitry Kozhanov
Oliver Long
David MacDonald
Samuel Maloney
Alexander Mena
Aryaman Mukherji
Michelle Namgoong
Nikki Nobari
Adetomi Oderinde
Elijah Reyelts
Manav Shah
Sanjay Srihari
Wesley Swanson
Aniketh Tadepalli
Rachel Toole
Erica Wu
Julie Yan
Charles Yu

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