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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2011

NATIONAL MERIT® SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
September 15, 2010 Announcement

Contact: Eileen Artemakis Phone: (847) 866-5100

Public Information E-mail: mediainfo@nmerit.net
Website: www.nationalmerit.org

Advance: For Release on Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Note to editors: Semifinalists in your state are listed alphabetically

by city and high school, following this press release.
This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names
of Semifinalists; its use for any other purpose is prohibited.

Caution: Using numbers of Semifinalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or states will
result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit® Scholarship Program honors individual students
who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The program
does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within a school, system, or state. For more
information about the competition, please visit NMSC’s website at www.nationalmerit.org.

Semifinalists Named in the 2011 National Merit® Scholarship Program

(Evanston, Illinois) Today the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 56th
annual National Merit Scholarship Program were announced by officials of National Merit
Scholarship Corporation (nmsc). These academically talented high school seniors have an
opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more
than $36 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.
About 90 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.

nmsc, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was
established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Scholarships are underwritten by nmsc with its own funds and by approximately 450 business
organizations and higher education institutions that share nmsc’s goals of honoring the nation’s
scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program

Steps in the Competition

About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2011 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2009 Preliminary sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test (psat/nmsqt®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool
of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the
highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the
state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout

high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn sat scores that
confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The Semifinalist and a high school
official must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes the student’s essay and
information about the Semifinalist’s participation and leadership in school and community activities.

Approximately 15,000 Semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level and it is
from this group that all National Merit Scholarship winners will be chosen. 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.

National Merit Scholarships

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2011.
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 250 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 200 colleges and
universities are expected to finance some 4,900 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards
for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2011 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more
than 275,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

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Merit Scholarship Corporation. psat/nmsqt is a registered trademark of National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the College Board.
Semifinalists: 2011 National
Merit Scholarship Program
WASHINGTON
ADNA
ADNA H. S.
462 Carter, Nicholas J.
ANACORTES
ANACORTES H. S.
999 Dunlap, Alexander J.
AUBURN
THOMAS JEFFERSON H. S.
200 Pu, Jason
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
BAINBRIDGE H. S.
520 Biencourt, Madeleine Y.
160 Hartmann, Abby A.
999 Minson, Rachel C.
628 Pearl-Sacks, Elliot N.
770 Reiter, Nicholas H.
907 Schmidt, Lina G.
628 Skotheim-Hillis, Julian
999 White, Nora M.
999 Wiggins, Eve M.
BATTLE GROUND
PRAIRIE H. S.
833 Senchyna, Peter E.
BELLEVUE
BELLEVUE H. S.
520 Hassler, Alan S.
FOREST RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE
SACRED HEART
870 Nicols, Samantha F.
HILLSIDE STUDENT
COMMUNITY H. S.
902 Spens, Amy E.
HOME SCHOOL
950 Mar, Timothy S.
INTERLAKE H. S.
459 Badshah, Akash A.
501 Bhardwaj, Rakshit
457 Black, Benjamin L.
999 Butrim, Matthew J.
999 Crenshaw, Meredith M.
907 Gu, Shanyi
555 Hammond, Kayla R.
628 Hsiao, Victor Y.
200 Hu, Victoria J.
160 Jang, Diane H.
169 Kato, Nathan C.
830 Khen, Daphna
300 Lee, Christina
450 Lee, Michael M.
999 Reifel, Austin E.
870 Rivers-Moore, Elsa T.
628 Ruan, Alex
900 Schilling, Nicole R.
417 Spurgeon, Mira E.
160 Teegan, Lydia K.
214 Tian, Peter S.
999 Tsang, Derek W.
303 Woo, David J.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
870 Joo, Gloria
870 Moore, Jeffrey K.
628 Szafer, Dafna G.
NEWPORT H. S.
303 Davis, Austin W.
906 Garrett, Alyssa O.
904 Gibson, Burke F.
628 Huang, Angela A.
450 Ju, Melody Y.
870 Ni, Lisa
836 Phelps, Hannah J.
990 Wang, Andrew K.
628 Yi, Minkyung
628 Yu, Jeannette J.
628 Yuan, Alice N.
BELLINGHAM
BELLINGHAM H. S.
450 Read, Benjamin J.
SEHOME H. S.
520 DeLaHunt, Caitlin T.
303 Nulle, Matthew G.
175 Osborne, Teresa Rose
999 Sloane, Matthew J.
450 Ypma, Menko P.
BOTHELL
BOTHELL H. S.
772 Cholvin, Tucker D.
250 Floberg, Dana J.
836 Fredrickson, Rebecca L.
999 Michael, Audrey H.
628 Payne, Bjorn E.
162 Peterson, Brendan A.
BREMERTON
BREMERTON H. S.
943 Rice, Ivy A.
CAMAS
CAMAS H. S.
628 Lim, Nicholas S.
999 Rakoski, Alexa I.
451 Sullivan, Connor M.
UNION H. S.
303 Cauligi, Sunjay R.
999 Mulderink, Bradley A.
COUPEVILLE
COUPEVILLE H. S.
999 Verble, Bryan D.
COVINGTON
TAHOMA H. S.
200 Rothschilds, Thomas G.
DUVALL
CEDARCREST H. S.
946 Hill, Sam P.
EASTSOUND
ORCAS ISLAND H. S.
999 McCormick, Halley P.
EDMONDS
EDMONDS - WOODWAY H. S.
742 Daranciang, Joshua R.
833 Schmitz, Denise M.
EVERETT
ARCHBISHOP THOMAS J.
MURPHY H. S.
770 Nguyen, Elaine H.
455 Purdy, Amy A.
FEDERAL WAY
TODD BEAMER H. S.
946 Onorati, Michael L.
DECATUR H. S.
628 Kim, Jennifer
FEDERAL WAY H. S.
946 Madonna, Katherine E.
450 Tang, Samuel
HOME SCHOOL
742 Starkey, Joshua A.
FERNDALE
FERNDALE H. S.
455 Mensing, Kaitlyn S.
GIG HARBOR
GIG HARBOR H. S.
550 Fox, Victoria
GRAHAM
GRAHAM - KAPOWSIN H. S.
461 Blount, Andrew R.
3
ISSAQUAH
ISSAQUAH H. S.
906 Brunette, Katarina A.
450 Chin, Elliott
833 Crocker, Jeff D.
600 Hanna, Sarah M.
742 Herrmann, Tyler J.
303 Repp, Andrew J.
999 Yu, Eric H.
KENMORE
INGLEMOOR H. S.
160 Berfield, Katherine F.
450 Billett, Sam H.
160 Briggs, Michelle A.
628 Chang, Natalie T.
450 Grabowski, Ben L.
454 Kato, Yuta C.
999 Patrick, Tyler
833 Pflager, Robin A.
710 Rinaldi, Ryan S.
455 Rosner, Michaella R.
740 Whittington, Zachary E.
KENNEWICK
KENNEWICK H. S.
450 Baskaran, Akshai
SOUTHRIDGE H. S.
870 Ravindranath, Orma
KENT
KENT - MERIDIAN H. S.
000 Duke, Zane A.
KENTRIDGE H. S.
843 Jones, Payton J.
712 Shamaprasad, Nachiketha K.
KIRKLAND
EASTSIDE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
999 Bain, Marcie C.
000 Beckerman, Conor J.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
SCHOOL
450 Antono, Erin M.
830 Backstrom, Ian D.
160 Hwang, Dorris Y.
906 Nagar, Sana R.
175 Saxby, Julia L.
JUANITA H. S.
700 Burt, Alexander J.
303 Kichline, Joseph C.
400 Piper, James P.
999 Tsai, Dorothy
522 Veltkamp, Anna K.
LAKE WASHINGTON H. S.
459 Wu, Joseph
LACEY
NORTH THURSTON H. S.
710 Ahn, Joonhae
TIMBERLINE H. S.
999 Hardebeck, Emerson J.
LYNNWOOD
PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
550 Grotte, Rachael E.
999 Jekel, David A.
MARYSVILLE
GRACE ACADEMY
843 Sleppy, Josiah D.
MEAD
MOUNT SPOKANE H. S.
843 Whitfield, Benjamin R.
MERCER ISLAND
MERCER ISLAND H. S.
907 Adler, Steven J.
160 Chang, Elizabeth J.
160 Chung, Kevin M.
455 Cox, Tyler S.
462 Goelz, Nicholas L.
843 Guinee, Kathleen
742 Hildebrandt, Eleanor H.
950 Lepp, Haley M.
742 Stewart, Jennifer M.
792 Suhm, Alyssa N.
843
162
Wingerson, Andrew A.
Zawadzki, Miriam E.
MILL CREEK
HENRY M. JACKSON H. S.
906 Cho, Jason Y.
628 Choi, Rachel J.
999 Haeger, Michael T.
455 Lim, Joshua
204 Yoo, Daniel S.
MONROE
MONROE H. S.
160 Meeus, Tom
MOUNT LAKE TERRACE
NORTH SOUND CHRISTIAN H. S.
619 Wiederspan, Emily R.
MUKILTEO
KAMIAK H. S.
770 Braa, Connor W.
999 Sullivan, Blake E.
NACHES
NACHES VALLEY H. S.
450 Clausing, Zachary A.
NORTH BEND
HOME SCHOOL
904 McDevitt, Max J.
OAK HARBOR
NORTH WHIDBEY CHRISTIAN H. S.
628 Dailey, Rachel E.
OAK HARBOR H. S.
790 Lauzen, Larajean S.
OLYMPIA
CAPITAL H. S.
522 Burgess, Jackson T.
454 Haughton, Alex N.
740 Nelson, Aaron S.
450 Zhao, Karen L.
OLYMPIA H. S.
161 Benson, Valkyrie L.
843 Dunsmore, Anita N.
742 Graham, Cole A.
450 McCullough, Erin A.
303 Moreland, Andrew J.
999 Mou, Yuchen
833 Wiktorek, Michael P.
PORT ANGELES
PORT ANGELES H. S.
837 Blonde, Michael N.
628 Rogers, Louisa I.
PORT TOWNSEND
PORT TOWNSEND H. S.
720 Levy, Madeline J.
PULLMAN
PULLMAN H. S.
999 Chen, Dongyang
450 Paxson-Tarnai, Berit
900 Tinney, Riley F.
PUYALLUP
GOVERNOR JOHN R.
ROGERS H. S.
900 Olmstead, Griffin D.
REDMOND
BEAR CREEK SCHOOL
303 Chittenden, Thomas H.
HOME SCHOOL
999 Reed, Robert J.
THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL
999 Adcock, Stephanie M.
605 Radich, Quinn P.
999 Stockdale, Kathleen G.
REDMOND H. S.
624 Dougherty, Logan M.
999 French-Owen, Darien D.
999 Hussin, Ryan M.
450 Ifrim, Raluca I.
999 Lim, Chris S.
450 Lyon, John M.
843 McNerney, Jeffrey A.
450 Mercer, Joseph
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303 Narayanan, Arjun V.
830 Wright, Benjamin M.
RENTON
OLIVER M. HAZEN H. S.
946 Zimmer, Jacob C.
LIBERTY H. S.
164 Chakravarty, Jay R.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH H. S.
999 Wright, Anastasia M.
RICHLAND
HANFORD H. S.
162 Bader, Sydney P.
943 Coppock, Robin
160 Hatchell, Kayla E.
160 Hu, Rebecca
162 Oostrom, Leonie
459 Reddick, Ian T.
RICHLAND H. S.
627 Chen, Emily Z.
162 Vukelich, Philip
SAMMAMISH
EASTLAKE H. S.
843 Pitt, Nicholas S.
EASTSIDE CATHOLIC H. S.
999 Boyle, Benjamin T.
303 Mahan, Matthew D.
904 Orehek, Michael C.
SKYLINE H. S.
628 Copparam, Saumya L.
712 Huang, Benjamin C.
160 Maulik, Dipanwita
457 Puvvadi, Praveen
833 Richardson, James A.
SEATAC
SEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
254 Bowen, Jessica
SEATTLE
BALLARD H. S.
771 Cope, Olivia L.
946 Miller, Dylan R.
BISHOP BLANCHET H. S.
741 Melvin, Andrew
906 Price, Amelia E.
THE BUSH SCHOOL
907 Felsenstein, Zach R.
940 Merrill, Hanna H.
999 Steig, Andrea G.
628 Williams, Grace E.
GARFIELD H. S.
741 Corwin, Benjamin E.
999 Davids, Joshua T.
000 Floor, Theodore F.
169 Franklin, Cordelia J.
450 Godbe, William T.
123 Jonlin, Alexander R.
303 Levy, Tal A.
999 Manber, Devon S.
450 Nguyen, Alisa H.
303 Nguyen, Qui T.
742 Proulx, Michael G.
774 Saether, Lucie M.
946 Shack, Emily R.
168 Singer, Jane
907 Stansell, Adam M.
200 Than, Summer
821 White, Jesse
999 Zhang, Angela Y.
NATHAN HALE H. S.
999 Way, Natasha
HOLY NAMES ACADEMY
900 Hahn, Donna D.
450 Hendrix, Rose M.
520 Kusters, Emma C.
628 Mockett, Amelia R.
INGRAHAM H. S.
792 Kern, Madeline C.
904 Smith, Rachel L.
450 Tugadi, Bailey
LAKESIDE SCHOOL
457 Appleton, Carter W.
999 Augusciak, Peter K.
950 Bennion, Connor S.
999 Blumstein, Ben G.
999 Gandham, Manu V.
943 Gaylord, Weston A.
843 Harvey, Andrew
999 Hoge, Michelle H.
430 Howe, Benjamin A.
000 Hussey, Winifred C.
742 Kaluzny, Andrew K.
712 Kerr, Logan R.
999 Kjos, Nils M.
712 Knapp, Max H.
999 Koski, Helen M.
999 Krengel, Oliver J.
451 Leet, Donna E.
999 Lessler, Peter B.
712 Lieu, Tiffany J.
000 Little, Garrett D.
999 Luche, Nicole M.
999 Mahoney, Yohan
000 Morikubo, Mie K.
999 Neilson, Susan C.
999 Ossman, Preston W.
450 Pai, Nitin
710 Paterra, Frank H.
999 Ramsey, Rich R.
303 Rinearson, Tess M.
999 Schlaepfer, Chris P.
870 Smith, Ross A.
999 Wade, Elizabeth C.
628 Wong, Christine Y.
161 Xie, Marjorie
628 Xu, Alex J.
628 Zhang, Laura
THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL
999 Baum, Misa M.
214 Chao, Grayson
710 Curry, John O.
821 Haynor, Sarah A.
ROOSEVELT H. S.
999 Arian, Morelle S.
256 Courtney, Tenaya
999 Dankel, Sophie C.
999 Houston, Nancyrose
999 Lang, Celia A.
561 Myers, Lily R.
454 Vogeli, Stephanie F.
SEATTLE ACADEMY
999 Stewart, Daniel J.
836 Tsang, Sophia W. R.
SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
450 Mallick, Matthew J.
600 Penuelas, Michael M.
TRANSITION SCHOOL FOR EARLY
ENTRANCE PROGRAM
628 La, Michelle A.
904 Van Cleve, David I.
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY
ACADEMY
999 Ehrenberg, Henry R.
465 Rifkin, Daniela A.
550 Swan, Hannah R.
SEDRO WOOLLEY
SEDRO WOOLLEY H. S.
450 Butterfield, Nicholas P.
SHORELINE
SHORECREST H. S.
712 Wagner, Alec T.
SHORELINE CHRISTIAN H. S.
629 Korf, Rebecca A.
SHOREWOOD H. S.
450 Delaney, Matthew E.
720 Lewis, Victoria A.
999 Matthews, Nathaniel Z.
550 Van Horne, Jessica M.
SILVERDALE
CENTRAL KITSAP H. S.
303 Flaherty, Mitchell G.
559 Harris, Carolyn N.
175 Holdren, Lindsey F.
999 Lubetich, Shannon N.
SNOQUALMIE
MOUNT SI H. S.
550 McMillan-Major, Angie Y.
555 Rehm, Stephanie M.
SOUTH HILL
EMERALD RIDGE H. S.
628 Yap, Ching W.
SPOKANE
JOEL E. FERRIS H. S.
630 Nielsen, Grant J.
LEWIS AND CLARK H. S.
774 Brow, Teddy G.
MEAD H. S.
843 Acharya, Nripendra D.
821 Coles, Taylor B.
OAKS CLASSICAL
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
710 Lewis, Sydney L.
ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL
522 Kerschen, Jackson R.
UNIVERSITY H. S.
870 Hess, Caitlin H.
SPOKANE VALLEY
CENTRAL VALLEY H. S.
250 Kuest, Shannen M.
999 Shellhorn, Ivvie L.
999 Zhang, Penny X.
STEILACOOM
STEILACOOM H. S.
450 Donor, Micah T.
TACOMA
BELLARMINE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
450 Emery, Kevin P.
457 Goodson, Toshiro C.
457 Mullen, Gabriel B.
STADIUM H. S.
999 Flodin, Larkin H.
450 Snape, Zoe A.
CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY
836 Kohnen, Nicholas A.
600 Pan, Kate
ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOL
214 Saudagaran, Mina S.
906 Vora, Sonia D.
200 Yeh, Stacy K.
TUMWATER
TUMWATER H. S.
454 Monson, Joshua
VANCOUVER
COLUMBIA RIVER H. S.
999 Bashkatova, Mariya D.
950 Hess, Maya K.
454 Lucero, Rachel V.
999 White, Oktobrianna M.
MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S.
999 Pan, Nicole
870 Ueng, Peter J.
162 Yan, James L.
946 Yu, Daniel
VASHON
VASHON ISLAND H. S.
870 Spencer, James R.
WALLA WALLA
DE SALES CATHOLIC SCHOOL
833 Vander Griend, Peter G.
WASHOUGAL
WASHOUGAL H. S.
303 Maxa, Alexander S.
WENATCHEE
WENATCHEE H. S.
204 Mulhall, Emily J.