103 Round Rock ISD students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists, following the annual announcement by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selects the highest achieving students for its program. Approximately 15,000 students across the nation were selected as finalists. All winners of the National Merit Scholarship award are chosen from the finalist group based on their abilities, skills and accomplishments. A variety of information is available for National Merit Scholarship selectors to evaluate including the finalist’s academic record, information about the school’s curricula and grading system, two sets of test scores, the high school official’s written recommendation, information about the student’s activities and leadership, and the finalist’s own essay according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Approximately 7,600 National Merit Scholarship awards winners will be announced by June, according to the organization.
The following students were named National Merit Scholarship finalists:
Cedar Ridge High School
- Vincent Tran
- Ian Kennedy
McNeil High School
- Truman Arthur
- Anshul Gulati
- Carissa Keng
- Darshan Koushik
- Polina Lee
- Manav Lund
- Kanthi Makineedi
- Prithvi Menon
- Aniruddh Mishra
- Saket Mugunda
- Zayd Nadir
- Uzair Nawaz
- Elizabeth Pieper
- Carter Poore
Round Rock High School
- Nathaniel Autry
- Sean Chang
- Madison Chapman
- Heonjae Cheong
- Hiya Dattani
- Sucharitha Gotham
- Krishna Grandhe
- Nicolas Hermoza
- Mallika Jade
- Karina Kosheleva
- Morris Lin
- Keira Padavil
- Kashvi Panjolia
- Kripa Philip
- Parul Sadasivuni
- Toby Saunders-Acourt
- Diya N. Shrawagi
- Risha Vankalapati
- Prajith Velcheti
Stony Point High School
- Anand Swami
Westwood High School
- Lasya Adivi
- Amoli Agarwal
- Manika Aggarwal
- Adarsh Ambekar
- Sanjay Amirthraj
- Jyotsna Arunkumar
- Anandatheertha Bapu
- Luke Brandes
- Emilia Cichocki
- Vijay Dagupati
- Aditi Dalal
- Venthan Dinesh
- Akshay Gaitonde
- Aaditya Ganesan
- Shreya Ganti
- Alice Guo
- Arsh Gupta
- Susan Hamilton
- Kevin Han
- Benjamin He
- Steven He
- Aanika Hirode
- Anna Irmetova
- Ashish Jacob
- Brian Jeon
- Pranav Katragadda
- Kavita Kohli
- Valentia Larina
- David Lee
- Hyunjae Lee
- Jessica Li
- Ethan Liu
- Sophia Louie
- Arnav Machavarapu
- Aakanksha Mahajan
- Aria Merchant
- Ishanvi Mishra
- Suhaas Patil
- Srihasa Penchikala
- Prithiv Premkumar
- Jessamine Qu
- Akhila Rajesh
- Rajonna Sen
- Sofia Shah
- Ishaan Sharma
- Sohum Sharma
- Joyce Shen
- Cassandra Smith
- Elie Soloveichik
- Prayag Sreenivasan
- Armaan Srireddy
- Anupama Subramanian
- Ariel Sun
- Jasmine Sureka
- Brandi Tai
- Yashwitha Thindi
- Shreya Tiwari
- Aneesh Vanguri
- Vibha Velur
- Hanyu Wei
- Ai Wu
- Anya Yaksh
- Olivia Yang
- Wesley Yeung
- Sophia Zhong
- Cindy Zhu
- Caroline Zhuang
