55 Aurora Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
AURORA, IL — Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program competition include more than 50 students from Aurora schools.
The city’s 55 semifinalists include 31 students from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 12 at Waubonsie Valley High School, nine at Metea Valley High School, two at Marmion Academy and 1 at Aurora Christian Schools.
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The nationwide pool of 16,000 semifinalists, which represents less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state, according to a news release.
Semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth a total of more than $30 million that will be awarded next spring.
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Over 1.5 million juniors entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants, the release states.
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National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April 2021. Recipients will join more than 353,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
AURORA SEMIFINALISTS
Aurora Christian Schools
Rachel B. Klumpp
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Muyiwa Arowolo
Brooke R. Bolsinger
Delicia L. Chen
Archan Das
Zachary S. Eness
Isabella G. Foes
Chandra L. Gangavarapu
Jonathan Gao
Rachna Gupta
Shrutika Gupta
Ellyn Y. Hu
Yaejoon Hyoung
Eugene Y. Lim
Cynthia X. Mu
Siva Nalabothu
Krisha T. Patel
Philip N. Paulson
Akul S. Prakash
Prarthana Prashanth
Emily Shao
Fania A. Si
Heldanna Solomon
Kodai Speich
Devraj Thakkar
Michael A. Trombetta
Eva H. Tuecke
Sachin Vijayaraj
Arthur Wang
Benjamin Weber
Wyatt O. Wren
Hannah L. Xu
Marmion Academy
Ryan M. Bennett
Nicholas M. Wilson
Metea Valley High School
Vinay Agrawal
Chinmay C. Bhogilal
Rhea S. Joshi
Sean Lu
Thomas R. Maxon
Sannidhi Mohan
Kishor N. Moorthy
Udit U. Pai
Yash S. Telang
Waubonsie Valley High School
Subul Ahmad
Juliana N. Canham
Manav Davis
Krish V. Desai
Nabeeha S. Khan
Arnav Khanna
Vinay Pai
Amogh Parmeswaran
Christopher M. Portanova
Brindet Socrates
Karthikeyan Srinivasan
Daniel R. Treuhaft
This article originally appeared on the Aurora Patch
