Two hundred sixty four Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students from 15 high schools have been named Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for 2024. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), which also serves as the Governor’s Regional School for Northern Virginia, has 165 Semifinalists.

All Semifinalists are eligible to compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarship awards worth nearly $28 million, to be awarded in spring 2024. Semifinalists advance to finalist standing in the competition by meeting high academic standards and other requirements including a recommendation from a high school official.

Fairfax County Public Schools 2024 National Merit Semifinalists are: 

• Annandale High School: Thanh Nguyen.
• Chantilly High School: Rashi Adhikari, Julian Cerniello, Jonathan Han, Leona Kim, Joshua Kwon, Tanisha Lanka, Navya Mandava, Sebastian Nowicki, Rhea Rajmanna, Siddhi Surawkar, Anika Umaselvan, Jason Yoo, Tyler Zarybnisky. 
• Fairfax High School: Maya Kamat, Shivani Kanjerla, Alicia Kim.
• Lake Braddock Secondary School: Alexander Benson, Keita Fogus, Nelson Lattimer, Seiya Lincicum, Eunice Park. 
• Langley High School: Scarlett Adams, Sai Charan Chaduruvelly, Anna Chen, Katherine Davis, Khalid Foraida, Jacqueline Gu, Aditya Gupta, Ashley Headrick, Lucas Kinkead, Collin Le, Milan Nguyen, Soren Sinani, Jolie Wu.
• Madison High School: Shivashish Das, Sophia Hsu, Calvin Kaplan, Austin Pemble, Kieran Roundy, Bennett Williams, Janine Zeng.
• Marshall High School: Yash Bapat, Hannah Poller, Keegan Rhyu, Eric Sanderson, Amelia Thomason, Sophia Welch. 
• McLean High School: Nathan Bass, Timothy Cedrone, Kian Choi, Lee Davis, Andrew Evans, Levana Gu, Nicoleta Hoffman, Kyra Macomber, Clara Marks, Maya Pashai, Alexandre Stephant, Camille Stephant, Astoria Stimmler, Angela Yang, Aileen Zhao.
• Oakton High School: Aditi Bhattacharjya, Patrick Breslin, Saipriya Buddhavarapu, Nicole Deng, Tyler Francis, Sreeja Gudiseva, Chloe Lee, Esha Lohiya, Hannah Longfellow, Daniel Son, Kenneth Yon, Amber Zhang, Elizabeth Zhukova, Kelly Zou. 
• Robinson Secondary School: Owen Corley, Alison Pollock, Connor Silks.
• TJHSST: Raka Adakroy, Mohib Ahmed, Cameron Ake, Harika Akundi, Neha Asuri, Vishana Baskaran, Ryan Berestecki, Brij Bhagat, Arjun Bhat, Dora Bowen-Glazeroff, Jacob Bowen-Glazeroff, Melissa Brown, Preston Brown, Paige Burke, Isabella Cai, Myles Carley, Kinnari Chaubal, Erin Chen, Jenny Chen, Jessica Chen, Thomas Chen, Dylan Cheng, Aiden Cheong, Danielle Cheong, Shashank Cheruvu, Rishabh Chhabra, Winston Chin, Thanisha Chowdhury, Elaine Chu, Maribelle Chu, Daniel John Chua, Benjamin Cohen, Santiago Criado, Emi Curtis, Tejesh Dandu, Anusha Das, Alexandra Davison, Shubhrangshu Deb Sarkar, Tristan Devictor, Khoi Dinh, Kiran Donnelly, Mihika Dusad, Pranav Elavarthi, Pishoy Elias, Carter Ellis, Alan Fan, Sarah Fu, Ketevan Gallagher, Medha Ghattu, Yajushi Gokhale, Shira Gottesman, Ananya Gottumukkala, Anika Gulati, Laura Guo, Dylan Han, Beck Hastings, Michael Hatami, Evan Huang, Liya Huang, Jiwoo Hwang, Lindsay Hwang, Paul Hwang, Anushka Jain, Riva Jain, Shinyoung Jeon, Katherine Jimenez, Tessa Joseph, Rohan Kalahasty, Dhruv Kalsi, Michelle Kang, Darren Kao, Sahil Kapadia, Ronit Kapur, Cullan Kelley, Anant Khandelwal, Jaiden Khemani, Ella Kim, Ryan Kim, Siddhita Krishnan, Munir Kudrati-Plummer, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Megana Kumar, Phong Lam, Brandon Le, Ian Lee, David Li, Samuel Li,  Taohan Lin, Grace Liu, Johnny Liu, Ryan Liu, Kaitlyn Lu, Rohit Malavathu, Vayun Malik, Hardeep Mann, Rohan Manroa, Brian McInnis, Saisreekar Mendu, Leo Meyer, Cierra Min, Grace Molla, Lakshmi Sritan Motati, Nikhil Nair, Vishal Nandakumar, Alexander Nassif, Anthony Neves, Ky Nam Nguyen, Grace Oh, Alexander O'Quinn, Eesha Pamnani, Pranav Panicker, Claire Peng, Venkat Penmetsa, Amith Polineni, Rishabh Prabhu, Shikha Raghuram, Arvind Ragunathan, Dhruv Rana, Hamsini Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranjith, Neha Reddy, Satvik Reddy, Sathvik Redrouthu, Benjamin Reznikov, Danielle Riekse, Alec Riso, Benjamin Rubin, Arman Saeedinia, Ankita Saxena, Leonard Schrag, Serenna Semonsen, Keya Shah, Krishan Shankar, Ishara Shanmugasundaram, Vidhi Sharma, Osman Sheikh, Ayaan Siddiqui, Samhitha Singiresu, Ajit Sivakumar, Neanth Suresh, Srishanth Tangedipalli, Austin Thomas, Karthik Thyagarajan, Yao Tong, Alexandra Toporowicz, Sebastia Toro, Pranav Vadde,  Mayuka Valluri, Kushaan Vardhan, Ram Vempati, Kai Wang, Kathleen Wang, Max Wang, Lucy Watts, Zani Xu, Lawrence Yang, Ryan Yi, Chris Yoo, Michael Zen, Emi Zhang, Helen Zhang, Katherine Zhang, Laura Zhang, Yushu Zhang, Anthony Zhao. 
• West Potomac High School: Lucy Marshall. 
• West Springfield High School: Kaylee Wisner. 
• Westfield High School: Vinay Bhimavarapu, Laya Dammoju, Amrutha Pendyala, Brandon Young, Andrew Zanotti. 
• Woodson High School: Zoe Eng, Anahat Goraya, Benjamin Hall, Gemin Kim, Nathaniel Kurland, Seth Lifland, Abbey Moran, Finnian Murphy, Joshua Park, Zahra Ramakdawala, William Jacob Ryman, Stephen Wolf.

Approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists for 2024. More than 1.5 million juniors entered the 2024 National Merit program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as the initial screen of program entrants.  

The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than 1% 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. These determinations are made by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, not FCPS or individual schools.

Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2024: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.

Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2024. Information regarding FCPS students who have been recognized as a Commended Student by NMSC will be available soon.

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