Fulton County School System Has Most National Merit Semifinalists in Georgia The Fulton County School System announced that 128 students are semifinalists in the 64th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program, the highest number of any school system in Georgia. These scholastically talented high school seniors now continue in the national competition for more than 7,500 Merit Scholarship awards, a value of approximately $31 million. Announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, this is the first round of competition for students seeking the distinction of being named a National Merit Scholar and receiving the scholarship money associated with it. Finalists will be named in February, and the scholarship winners will be announced beginning in April. The students were identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. As semifinalists, the students now must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist round. They must have a record of high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school leadership, and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance. A detailed scholarship application, which includes the students self-descriptive essay and information about his or her participation and leadership in school and community activities, also must be submitted. Here are this years semifinalists from north Fulton high schools:Alpharetta High School Richard ChoRohit DasSidhesh S. DesaiAnushka DheerDheeraj EidnaniKaushal GokareSyed HaiderMatthew HolmquistJake HopkinsMarilyn KessingerManoj NiverthiSean RagerIda VaghefiAdam WangArthur YuJustin Zandstra Cambridge High SchoolAustin T. FarrChristopher M. FettesCaroline K. RedickNikita Savant Centennial High School Christine PangChattahoochee High SchoolAbhimanyu AurobindoJennifer BaiJames BischoffMarylyn ChenRidhi ChoragudiHannah DominguezMorgan GilesXuanming GuEmily GuoSung Mo HongVinnie K. KhannaAndrew KreitnerVanisha KudumuriAndy LuoMaanas PurushothapuNithyashree RajasekarAkash RudraTyler ShinRaj SrivastavaShyla TolaniNithilan VincentEllie WongHarrison ZhuJohns Creek High SchoolRajath BappanadTyler C. BierfreundAngie ChenVictoria ChenHyun ChoiJason GaoWilliam GoldsteinAlexander B. HayesVatan KapadiaHojung KimSarah C. McWhirterKatherine RoladerAndrew S. ShinSamuel SongNeha SubramaniyanYuma TanakaRhea VohraJulia WeiLily XieJacob YoungSarah Zhang Milton High SchoolPranav AthimuthuAnna BukowskiMaxwell GuoNiraj JinanErin JoyceSoham KarRithwik KoppakaKayleigh MonahanMira E. MutnickDavid Schertz Northview High School Safa AhmedKelsey AhnNathaniel AlemayehuAlina BaijuAmshumanth ChakragiriMallika ChimpiriSruti ChitluriOlivia L. ChoBrijal ChokshiConstantin ClaassenAlexandra DunnAnnie Z. FengShashank S. GaneshanSuraj S. GubbalaAniruddha GuptaLawrence L. HeMohammed F. JunejaSonia KaliaMichele KimPraneeth KolichalaRichard LeeYoungho LimNithya MahakalaPriun NagruAyush S. NeneEvan OuyangNidhi PaiMichelle L. PangTiffany L. PangPriya RajeevRicha SehgalAayush ShahMadhusudhan SrinivasanSylvia TangAmy TauLivia I. TibuleacVarun R. VangalaAnkita D. VayalapalliKevin WangSimon YanDevansh YerpudeGrace YuAlyssa ZhangSheri ZhangJonathan ZhengRoswell High School Sameer KhanLena KroneGrant RosenblumRachna Sahasrabudhe