Two hundred thirteen Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students from 21 high schools have been named semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) for 2017. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), which also serves as the Governor’s Regional School for Northern Virginia, has 119 semifinalists.

All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarship awards worth $33 million, to be awarded in spring 2017.

FCPS 2017 National Merit semifinalists are:

• Annandale High School:  Benjamin Betts.
• Centreville High School:  Alexander Kim, Sarah Lim, and Connor O’Brien.
• Chantilly High School:  Kevin Choi, Daniel Lee, Alice Wang, and Jeffrey Wang.
• Fairfax High School:  Benjamin Krupka and Rebecca Stafford.
• Hayfield Secondary School:  Megan Howard.
• Herndon High School:  Allison Brown.
• Lake Braddock Secondary School:  Benjamin Clark, Rachel Flatt, Katherine Lang, Ethan Rolland, Samuel Schwarz, and Rebecca Willis.
• Langley High School:  Ahmed Allawi, Elizabeth Ellinger, Alexander Feng, Richard Gagnon, Matthew Gregory, Emma Kohm, James Morrissey, Alexander Owen, Robert Pei, Nitin Rao, Kanishk Singh, Emily Stranne, Sivan Tretiak, Jay Uitz, and Andrew Vinter.
• McLean High School:  Rebecca Bennett, Anna Duval, Tariq Foraida, Lauren Hassi, Noah Huffman, Brett Hungar, Carlyn Kranking, Rahul Mani, Melanie Pincus, Alexander Simons, Andrew Yang, Lucy Zheng, and Catherine Zysk.
• Madison High School:  Patrick Donnelly, Kyle Fielman, Emily Gibson, Owen Haines, Zipporah Klain, Page Murray, Sophia Park, Andrew Prince, Noah Thompson, and Bridget Thornberry.
• Marshall High School:  Patrick Brinza, Ethan Epstein, Dannie Griggs, Salim Roustom, and Emma Ward.
• Oakton High School:  Evan Cao, Calvin Krist, Michael Lee, Lindsay Rosenblum, Kelly Sun, Liam White, and Alice Yang.
• Robinson Secondary School:  Jason Katz, George Roberts, Punita Verma, and Eric Wei.
• South County High School:  Juho Kim and Kevin Zhu.
• South Lakes High School:  Daniel Sprague.
• Stuart High School:  Jackson Dillard.
• Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST):  Katherine Ahn, Emma Bachman, Jennifer Baily, Akshay Balaji, Aaryan Balu, Gregory Bastian, Victoria Bevard, Joya Bhattacharyya, Sanjeevani Bhavsar, Sofiya Boroday, Susanna Bradbury, Cecelia Brower, Jonathan Buchinsky, Colin Buckley, Michelle Cao, David Chao, Selina Cheng, Melody Chiang, Roma Chitko, Cecelia Chu, Landon Chu, Colin Chung, Hannah Collins, Elise Conforti, Caroline Cox, Emma Cuddy, Deepshika Dhanasekar, Sarah Dickson, Katherine Eisert, Sahana Epari, Violet Felt, John Feng, Jacob Fondriest, Clara Fontaine, Alexander Fried, William Furlong, Ishaan Gandhi, Kevin Geng, Grey Golla, Juliana Gruver, Aaron Gu, Amit Gupta, Kristen Halper, David Hansen, Griffith Heller, Elise Holford, Elizabeth Hu, Vivian Hu, Varuyn Iyengar, Jillian Khoo, Hannah Kim, Kyoung Min Kim, Shivam Kollur, Adarsh Kulkarni, Jihyeong Lee, Nicholas Lee, Rachel Lee, Caitlyn Ling, David Liu, Eric Liu, Eldon Luk, James Ma, Janet Malzahn, Rachel Martinka, Rebecca Mays, Gabriela McDonald, Christopher McGowan, Andrea Michael, Abhishek Mishra, Colin Murphy, Prithvi Narayana, Jacob Nash, Caroline Nguyen, Mina Nowroozi, Maya Omais, Abdalla Osman, Jami Park, Seung Park, Josai Patel, Tishani Patel, Swetha Prabakaran, Neeraj Prasad, Gautam Ramanathan, Ramya Ravi, Rhea Sahai, Suhas Sastry, Raquel Sequeira, Jessie Shen, Alvin Shi, Nikhil Shirolkar, Abigail Shoemaker, Aakash Shukla, Meghna Sil, Alexandria Soccio-Mallon, Won Song, Jason Stranne, Kody Stremick, Jayant Subramanian, Alexander Sun, Tiffany Sun, Aditi Sundararaman, Katie Tam, Joyce Tian, Thinh Tu, Aadith Vittala, Christine Wang, Jessica Wang, Jessica J.Wang, Devon Wood-Thomas, Daniel Wu, William Xu, Eugennie Yoon, Brian Yu, Diana Zavela, Ran Zhang, Ruyan Zhang, Haicheng Zhao, Sydney Zheng, and Sarah Zhou.
• West Potomac High School:  Sean Franklin.
• West Springfield High School:  Mary Jane MacArthur.
• Westfield High School:  Daniel Park, Celina Paudel, and Lucinda Zhu.
• Woodson High School:  Emilia Cabrera, Andrew Elaryan, James Fothergill, Daniel Kim, Jae Oh, Lam-Phong Pham, Samuel Scheele, Mollie Shichman, Helena Sowder, Justin Suh, Brian Ward, Hailey Wingo, and Carolyn Wong.

Approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2017.  More than 1.6 million juniors entered the 2017 National Merit program by taking the 2015 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 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. Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2017:  National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.

Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2017.

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Note:  For more information, contact the FCPS Office of Communication and Community Relations at 571-423-1200.