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Semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program
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 through-
out 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.
From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance
to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notified 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.
National Merit Scholarships
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2020. 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 4,100 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the
sponsor institution.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2020 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than
345,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
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Semifinalists: 2020 National 940
303
Kim, Yuri
Lee, Jackson
GALLOWAY
ABSEGAMI H. S.
209 Mi, Steven 303 Rupsee, Alexander A.
Merit Scholarship Program 870
171
Zhang, Belinda
Zou, Lucy GLEN RIDGE
GLEN RIDGE H. S.
EAST HANOVER 454 Pine, Haleigh
HANOVER PARK H. S.
451 Har, Benson B.
161 Matton-Conover, Benjamin L. GLEN ROCK
NEW JERSEY 770 Meng, Sheena EDISON GLEN ROCK H. S.
628 Nuli, Shreya S. 455 Blake, Colin T.
EDISON H. S.
740 Patel, Shivam 000 Meka, Ashwin
ABERDEEN 000 Pfaff, Ella HACKENSACK
MATAWAN REGIONAL H. S. 450 Schueler, Nicholas E. BERGEN COUNTY ACADEMIES
161 Gardell, Norman R. MIDDLESEX COUNTY ACADEMY
164 Shah, Naomi H. FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND 000 Anchipolovsky, Samuel N.
300 Sommers, Teddy C. ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES 000 Bogdanowitsch, Tycho J.
ALLENDALE 204 Viswanath, Manu D. 000 Cai, Tom K.
300 Hingorani, Meher P.
NORTHERN HIGHLANDS 303 Wu, Ethan X. 000 Chacar-Palubinskas, Rimas
160 Kumar, Avinash A.
REGIONAL H. S. 209 Zhou, Allen L. 000 Chan, Zachary D.
450 Li, Jason S.
946 DeAngelo, Mia G. 303 Zhu, Ganqiu 000 Chen, Carrie J.
209 Pogaku, Sharanya
870 Lim, Yena 000 Cho, Samuel S.
000 Pataki, Kasey E. BURLINGTON 000 Huh, Alex
710 Singh, Sandli
JOHN P. STEVENS H. S.
FLORENCE TOWNSHIP 450 Anna, Akshath Shvetang O. 000 Iasinovschi, Niki
303 Zheng, Ashlynn MEMORIAL H. S. 000 Jeon, Sebastian J.
000 Banerjee, Soham
303 Moody, Raymond E. 960 Cao, Cynthia 000 Jethani, Mehek
ANNANDALE 999 Epstein, Ethan G. 000 John, Rachel R.
NORTH HUNTERDON H. S. CALDWELL 301 Ghosh, Kushagra 000 Joshi, Sunay
160 Caso, Elizabeth A. MOUNT ST. DOMINIC ACADEMY 301 Jog, Neel A. 000 Kim, Annette
628 Stagg, Isabella A. 160 Pathil, Melissa 999 Kang, Jada E. 000 Kim, Ashley J.
185 Wiegand, Lilian 628 Mudigati, Vihitalasya 000 Kim, Daniel
CHATHAM 600 Patel, Ishan S. 000 Kim, Kaitlyn
BASKING RIDGE CHATHAM H. S. 451 Patil, Arya V. 000 Lee, Hye In
PINGRY SCHOOL 450 Hearne, Margot A. 904 Saini, Saransh 000 Lee, Sue J.
907 Clark, Stuart C. 160 Iizuka, Erica 628 Shah, Rishi 000 McFadden, Maeve C.
628 Kapoor, Anjali K. 461 Khan, Ahmer S. 301 Singh, Rahul 000 Ming, Charles
185 Kumar, Ashna J. 999 Roy, Aditya V. 301 Singh, Swapneil 000 Moon, Mia
999 Li, Brian 740 Rozhkov, Ivan C. 999 Tam, Rachel 000 Pai, Sameer
218 Lu, Ashley 999 Trivedi, Divyesh N. 000 Ping, Jason
457 Wen, Collin A. CHERRY HILL 630 Wang, Selena J. 000 Tobing, Andrea M.
301 Yu, Robert H. CHERRY HILL H. S. EAST 600 Xu, Cindy 000 Wei, Alexander
999 Brooks, Jake E. 000 Xu, Ryan
RIDGE H. S. 600 Goel, Arnav WARDLAW - HARTRIDGE SCHOOL 000 Yang, Peiyu
300 Agrawal, Vikram M. 628 Wu, Claire A. 999 Fang, Camila 000 Yuan, Angela
301 Gupta, Arul 999 Yoon, Grace
160 Hariharan, Kaivalya ENGLEWOOD HADDONFIELD
943 Helgeson, Annika M. CHESTER DWIGHT - ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL HADDONFIELD MEMORIAL H. S.
160 Ho, Claire A. WEST MORRIS CENTRAL H. S. 000 Mueller, Kirin D. 161 Griffin, Carly E.
999 Iselborn, Hans C. 712 Booth, Olivia 000 Popa, Anthony 300 Yan, Pierre
161 Jin, Meghan X. 628 Chen, John Y.
209 Kannan, Shiam 555 Cooley, Jenna L. FAIR LAWN
454 King, Katelyn M.
HAMILTON
FAIR LAWN H. S. NOTTINGHAM H. S. NORTH
162 Kong, Blisse X. COLTS NECK 455 Garval, Max 459 Dogariu, Evan
904 Krohn, Mason S. COLTS NECK H. S. 723 Mach, Jordan
450 Kundargi, Rishi 000 Blitstein, Ty 455 Shamis, Anna
628 Lan, Anthony STEINERT H. S. EAST
904 Liu, David 605 Dong, Andy
CRESSKILL FLEMINGTON
999 Lou, Meredith J.
CRESSKILL H. S. HUNTERDON CENTRAL
459 Madabushi, Sreekar R.
999 Huh, Nicole Y. REGIONAL H. S. HIGHLANDS
303 Namjoshi, Tanvi K. MARINE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
908 Jiang, Isabella S. 000 Bruhl, Lauren
161 Sha, Caroline AND TECHNOLOGY
628 Kogan, Daniel 000 Serrao, Danielle
950 Skrobala, Anna R. 160 Fuentes, Isabela
000 Shreiber, Bowie
461 Sundram, Adith R.
628 Tang, Kevin P.
DEMAREST
NORTHERN VALLEY FORT LEE HIGHTSTOWN
REGIONAL H. S. FORT LEE H. S. HIGHTSTOWN H. S.
BAYONNE 628 Cha, Russell W. 463 Shi, William W. 209 Dalia, Diya H.
BAYONNE H. S. 833 Fang, Darin L.
000 Banerjee, Arsh 836 Kim, Jacqueline S. PEDDIE SCHOOL
FRANKLIN LAKES
946 Kim, Taehoon RAMAPO H. S. 455 Drake, Alexandra M.
MARIST H. S. 000 Lee, Youngeun 450 Cannizzo, John D. 303 Glas, Evan J.
303 Singh, Armandeep 161 Dash, Camille A. 454 Jusuf, Orion
DENVILLE 450 Maytin, Jason P. 209 Kwon, Isaac O.
BERNARDSVILLE THE ACADEMY FOR
BERNARDS H. S. MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE FREEHOLD HILLSBOROUGH
907 Manathara, Ritika M. AND ENGINEERING BIOTECHNOLOGY H. S. HILLSBOROUGH H. S.
451 Hwang, Michael Y. 160 Agarwal, Annika 450 Ji, Alan J.
BORDENTOWN 833 Nibhanupudi, Rohith 164 Aplash, Kirti 904 Liu, Alicia Y.
BORDENTOWN REGIONAL H. S. 000 Reehal, Kerrn S. 171 Chaudhari, Kush 900 Parthasarathy, Shweta
451 Kanamarlapudi, Suhas 000 Tang, Jessica Y. 209 Fitzgerald, Dylan J. 628 Ramaswamy, Swara
000 Varma, Vikaas V. 605 Gu, Oliver S. 300 Xu, Yinuo
BRIDGEWATER 000 Wickramasinghe, Kithmy P. 454 Kalyanraman, Nikhil
ACADEMY FOR HEALTH AND 000 Yeditha, Merwan A. 999 Kraus, Caroline T.
MEDICAL SCIENCES 000 Zhang, Theresa
HILLSDALE
450 Liao, Emily PASCACK VALLEY H. S.
000 Gangavaram, Abiram 999 Liu, Gloria 000 Lee, Rachel J.
000 Gershater, Elizabeth MORRIS CATHOLIC H. S. 162 Nguyen, Theodore H. 700 Tjan, Isabella
000 Gupta, Ruhyak 250 Hoving, Nicholas M. 999 Pan, Ethan J.
161 Mavathaveedu, Adarsh 161 Samuel, Reina M.
MORRIS COUNTY SCHOOL 999 Shushkovsky, Max C. HOLMDEL
BRIDGEWATER - RARITAN OF TECHNOLOGY 870 Swinchoski, Benjamin A. HOLMDEL H. S.
REGIONAL H. S. 907 Singh, Ananya 000 Teza, Cameron O. 999 Levonas, Emily
160 Bhandarkar, Saumya 303 Zhang, Bridget Y. 999 Lin, Hannah
300 Chandrashekhar, Ritvik EAST BRUNSWICK 303 Yuan, Daniel
168 Holz, Julia A. EAST BRUNSWICK H. S. FREEHOLD H. S. 162 Zhang, Claudia S.
218 Huang, Michelle S. 628 Adams, Sarah 000 Chinni, Rohan
990 Jin, Ashley 742 Brown, Sophie 000 Cleary, Bryan ISELIN
303 Krishna, Vaishak 454 Galkin, Maria 000 Hsueh, Sophia JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL H. S.
303 Mankikar, Meher 171 Han, Jeffrey 000 Sun, Laura 000 Borkhetaria, Pranati
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MARLBORO MORRISTOWN 000 Mishra, Nishant
New Jersey (continued) MARLBORO H. S. DELBARTON SCHOOL 185 Pithani, Meghna S.
000 Steinberg, Hailey 160 Amin, Rohan M. 455 Sharma, Ria S.
301 Majmudar, Adam K. 710 Singer, Daniel N.
MATAWAN 999 Styrkas, Yuri K.
LAWRENCEVILLE 999 Su, Rongbai
LAWRENCE H. S. OLD BRIDGE H. S. MOUNT HOLLY
000 Maevsky, Daniel RANCOCAS VALLEY 999 Trenholm, Nicholas S.
300 Wang, Ian
000 Peng, Izi REGIONAL H. S. 200 Yan, Andrew
742 Burns, Nicholas J. 301 Zammit, Victoria S.
LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
710 Annamaneni, Shriya MEDFORD WILBERFORCE SCHOOL
742 Cai, Miranda J. LENAPE H. S. MOUNTAIN LAKES
MOUNTAIN LAKES H. S. 999 Baldwin, Katherine G.
628 Chakraborty, Praneel 450 Cao, Olivia
628 Chen, David 450 Barnett, Daniel J.
628 Cui, Aileen Z. RAMSEY
451 Mohnacs, Jacob 628 Harpale, Mitra
522 Duraiswamy, Ashley DON BOSCO PREPARATORY H. S.
467 Huang, Vincent J. 161 Pattar, Antara 300 Bele, Aidan M.
999 Kim, Dami NEPTUNE
ACADEMY OF ALLIED HEALTH 830 Montalvo-Zotter, Gabriel M.
999 Kinney, Deven P. MENDHAM 302 Moynihan, Jeremy P.
999 Raguso, Liana L. AND SCIENCE
WEST MORRIS MENDHAM H. S. 628 Amin, Rudra B.
000 Zhou, Nicholas 999 Lau, Tiffany W. RAMSEY H. S.
NEWTON 000 Edelson, William N.
NOTRE DAME H. S. METUCHEN KITTATINNY REGIONAL H. S.
185 Hart, Molly C. METUCHEN H. S. RANDOLPH
907 Amorim, Alyssa N.
000 Li, Joy RANDOLPH H. S.
LINCROFT 303 Syed, Ibrahim M.
NORTH BRUNSWICK
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY ST. JOSEPH H. S. 908 Wu, Josephine
NORTH BRUNSWICK
450 Valsamedis, Drew C. 457 Jain, Ojas TOWNSHIP H. S.
628 Subers, Brett 628 Bejugama, Sidharth S. RIDGEFIELD
HIGH TECHNOLOGY H. S. 712 Jha, Kunal A. RIDGEFIELD MEMORIAL H. S.
450 Chen, Kevin 450 Peddi, Rima 843 Kim, Justin D.
MILLBURN
303 Diament, Justin N. MILLBURN H. S.
450 Echezona, Chukwuemekalum K. OAKLAND RIDGEWOOD
167 Baker, Charles
303 Florendo, Katrina C. INDIAN HILLS H. S. RIDGEWOOD H. S.
999 Dimov, Nicholai
459 Hansen, Gustav 204 Kupferberg, Elijah A. 000 An, Jongyun
209 Goel, Varun
303 Jain, Aruj 900 An, Taeseok
000 Huang, Amanda
302 Jain, Sana 000 Chang, Christy S.
000 Jiang, Rockie OLD TAPPAN 000 Donnelly, Nora G.
999 Jiang, Emily S. 303 Liu, Elizabeth NORTHERN VALLEY
204 Kalanther, Addison G. 168 Jerdee, Olivia N.
100 Maguire, Livia REGIONAL H. S. 999 Lee, Choong Jae
459 Kumar, Amiya 945 Shan, Qi 999 Singh, Aayush K.
303 Kumar, Aparna 000 Mendoza, Annabel S.
160 Song, Isabella
459 Li, Karen X. 000 O'Keefe, Edward P.
185 Wang, Kevin PARAMUS
628 Liu, Katherine G. 301 Patllollu, Sidharth
451 Weiss, Alexander FRISCH SCHOOL
457 Menon, Arjun C. 628 Zhao, Baiyue
723 Yuan, Allison 000 Bleiberg, Ezra J.
904 Raghavan, Ravi 999 Zhang, Ethan
301 Sarma, Abhijat ROBBINSVILLE
PARSIPPANY ROBBINSVILLE H. S.
303 Thalasila, Akhil S. PARSIPPANY H. S.
302 Wang, Lawrence
MONMOUTH JUNCTION 628 Glassband, Zachary R.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK H. S. 301 He, Evan 160 Gondal, Hammad
450 Yan, Jason H.
161 Alphons, Malaika G. 000 Suresh, Brinda
999 Yao, Brianna S.
303 Yu, Adrienne
161 Ansari, Kashif PENNINGTON
303 Zhang, Sophie S.
451 Bhalla, Rahul HOPEWELL VALLEY CENTRAL H. S. ROCKAWAY
459 Fu, Evelyn L. 999 Parker, Lindsey K. MORRIS HILLS H. S.
999 Hang, Emily V. 121 D'Souza, Chryslyn A.
LIVINGSTON 628 Kunamneni, Sruthi R. PENNINGTON SCHOOL 461 Shah, Tej P.
RAE KUSHNER YESHIVA H. S. 451 Laud, Mihir P. 000 Patel, Deep M.
501 Mendelsohn, Isaac J. 303 Li, Allison W. MORRIS KNOLLS H. S.
160 Narahari, Srihith R. PENNSAUKEN 830 Cedzidlo, Helen A.
LIVINGSTON H. S. 628 Parthasarathy, Praveen S. BISHOP EUSTACE
303 Brustein, Dina 301 Peddinti, Rajat V. PREPARATORY SCHOOL SCOTCH PLAINS
628 Chan, Jacqueline S. 450 Seshadri, Sudarshan 450 Pasco, Andrew H. ACADEMY FOR ALLIED
185 Chang, Erin 209 Shah, Isha HEALTH SCIENCES
185 Desai, Aditi A. 999 Taneja, Samarth PISCATAWAY 999 Obiajulu, Deborah C.
830 Ding, Kenneth M. 160 Vedula, Sreekar PISCATAWAY H. S.
303 Liao, Jeffrey X. 501 Yin, Franklin 301 Patel, Rishi T. SCOTCH PLAINS - FANWOOD H. S.
000 Patel, Nirav H. 999 Tsuchiya, Christopher S.
254 Pham, Katrina T. MONROE TOWNSHIP PLAINSBORO
907 Reiter, Ethan MONROE TOWNSHIP H. S. WEST WINDSOR - PLAINSBORO UNION CATHOLIC REGIONAL H. S.
999 Wei, Angela 467 Barsa, Paul V. H. S. NORTH 830 Coyne, Jacquelyn N.
303 Xiong, Ian 160 Musale, Atharwa 164 Bhimavarapu, Ishita
627 Zhang, Emily 454 Shukla, Avani K. 628 Damle, Ruhee UNION COUNTY MAGNET H. S.
302 Huang, Daniel 836 Edekar, Omay T.
NEWARK ACADEMY MONTCLAIR 999 Jian, Stanley 454 Karacasu, Lara
000 Bu, Grace MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY 209 Liu, Eric Y. 303 Li, Raymond Z.
000 Lieberman, Eric D. 900 Medawar, Michelle V. 904 Narayan, Neha 999 McKenna, Max P.
000 Lu, Kira 700 Okun-Dubitsky, Julian P. 300 Srinivasan, Kripa 000 Setia, Rohan
000 Sun, Lori 301 Xian, Jasper 450 Yee, Isabella B.
000 Sunada-Wong, Warren R. 302 Yalla, Namitha
MONTVILLE SECAUCUS
MONTVILLE TOWNSHIP H. S. POMPTON LAKES HIGH TECH H. S.
MADISON 999 Gudimella, Srikar S.
MADISON H. S. POMPTON LAKES H. S. 741 Mangat, Eshaan G.
999 Moon, Kiara
999 Nevias, Allison H. 457 Squicciarini, Dominick
202 Mulay, Jay S.
121 Quinn, Hailey
SEWELL
MAHWAH 171 Sapozhnikov, Mira PRINCETON WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP H. S.
PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL 000 Basu, Sreeta
MAHWAH H. S. 300 Sun, Christine W.
999 Lee, Daniel 907 Chang, Julia R.
830 Suman, Thomas C. 999 Thomas, Megha E. SKILLMAN
MOORESTOWN MONTGOMERY H. S.
MOORESTOWN H. S. PRINCETON H. S. 890 Amladi, Arjun S.
MANALAPAN 906 Miller, Jonah W. 454 Bhatia, Anushka 120 Deshmukh, Parth P.
MANALAPAN H. S. 628 Park, Matthew S. 000 Deng, Leon Y. 209 Elez, Andrej
000 Liang, Jiebin 301 Eaton, Anna C. 200 Gong, Melinda
MORRIS PLAINS 999 Guo, Michaela Y. 454 Liu, Colin X.
MAPLEWOOD PARSIPPANY HILLS H. S. 162 Lee, Samuel H. 162 Liu, Ethan R.
COLUMBIA H. S. 300 Kuo, Nicholas Y. 302 Lieb, Anna S. 628 Ma, Audrey
454 Barrett, Ryanne M. 161 Liu, Amy Y. 999 Lin, Jonathan 162 Ma, Charles
000 Glynn, Alexander 450 Wang, Harvey 999 Liu, Lauren 164 Nanney, Catrina S.
467 Kremer Guha, Zubin J. 209 Zhang, Alex J. 000 Marabello, Jordan C. 000 Patel, Richa J.
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VOORHEES
New Jersey (continued) EASTERN REGIONAL H. S.
160 Devadiga, Sudhish A.
TETERBORO
BERGEN COUNTY
TECHNICAL H. S.
843 Agarwal, Rohit R.
999 Caichen, Alicia Y.
712 Chang, Walter S.
946 Gil, Emily C.
209 Lau, Darren
999 Park, Sungjoon
451 Shore, Kenji M.
209 Song, Colin
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON
IMMACULATE HEART ACADEMY
836 Mendolia, Grace E.
628 Ryu, Kang Hyun
200 Sciubba, Ava M.