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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2020

NATIONAL MERIT® SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
September 11, 2019 Announcement

Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Phone: (847) 866-5100

Public Information Email: mediainfo@nmerit.net
Website: www.nationalmerit.org

Advance: For release on Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Note to editors: Semifinalists in your state are listed alphabetically by city and
high school following this press release.
This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names of
Semifinalists; its use for any other purpose is prohibited.

Caution: Using numbers of Semifinalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or

states will result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit® Scholarship Program honors
individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous
college studies. The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within
a school, system, or state. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSC’s
website at www.nationalmerit.org.

Semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit® Scholarship Program

(Evanston, Illinois) Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC)

announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit
Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to
continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31
million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award,
Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.
Over 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half
of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was

established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 400 business
organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s
scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Steps in the 2020 Competition

Over 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test (PSAT/NMSQT ®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide
pool of Semifinalists, representing 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.

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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Semakov, Daniel
Shi, Jonathan J.
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301
Tobias, Hana T.
Xu, Jessica J.
454 Suits, Colin M.
Merit Scholarship Program 560
300
Teterin, Jenna B.
Wang, Kevin Z.
CARLSBAD
LA COSTA CANYON H. S.
160 Zhou, Denise 450 Lacob, Drew G.
830 White, Lauren W.
NOTRE DAME H. S.
451 Bangs, Eleanor PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL
160 Shi, Michael J. 175 Daley, Parker E.
CALIFORNIA 619 Tan, Michelle E.
000 Cheung, Kimberly A.
000 Desai, Shivam M.
450 Tong, Wesley BENICIA 000 Wu, Dustin H.
741 Tsuji, Evan T. BENICIA H. S.
AGOURA HILLS 454 Vo, Brandon
AGOURA H. S. 843 Cheng, Jun SAGE CREEK H. S.
302 Wang, Tingxuan 999 Fox, Joseph M.
303 Law How Hung, Austin B.
200 Wong, Braden M. BERKELEY 741 Li, Victor Y.
999 Schofield, Aidan Y.
712 Xu, Anabell M. BERKELEY H. S. 167 Low, Samantha S.
303 Yeh, Elizabeth Y. 742 Ancell, Amos R. 160 Nguyen, Hanh Y.
ALAMEDA 168 Yeung, Andre
ALAMEDA SCIENCE AND 742 Aronson, Rachel C. 628 Pandey, Lavanya
463 Zhu, David X. 302 Avery, Joshua M. 450 Player, Ella J.
TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
520 Zimmerman, Samantha 950 Chandler, Audrey E. 461 Pregerson, Eli J.
ARCATA 463 Davidoff, Isabel S. 160 Soni, Isha
ARCATA H. S. 907 Fantacone, Gabriel G.
ENCINAL H. S. 457 Janzen, Leo P.
300 Lack, Alexander 941 Feinberg, Adrian L. CARMICHAEL
833 Oberlander, Katherine A. 450 Fern, Richard J. JESUIT H. S.
ST. JOSEPH - NOTRE DAME H. S. 501 Goetting, Dylan K. 454 Gahunia, Jaiveer
NORTHCOAST PREPARATORY 833 Jacobson-Bell, Benjamin H. 168 To, Alexander Q.
628 Annis, Zavier AND PERFORMING 999 Ledor, Gina
ARTS ACADEMY 162 Lerman, Eliza C. CARPINTERIA
ALAMO 450 Le, Jianghua 900 Svoboda, Eli S.
HOMESCHOOL CATE SCHOOL
999 Tezcan, Teoman 000 Burke, Simon R.
742 Goudreau, Lyneth C. ATHERTON 999 Uribe, Benyamin M. 000 Liou, Kenneth B.
MENLO - ATHERTON H. S. 999 Rogers, Kimberly J.
ALBANY 185 Baum, Hannah G. ST. MARY'S COLLEGE H. S.
ALBANY H. S. 214 Boustiha, Cyprien A. 160 Geiler-Ingham, Harrison B.
833 Bain, Isabelle S. CARSON
417 Ginn, Rachel E. CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF
303 Chan, Ethan M. 906 Gordan, Andrew J.
843 Johnson, Vincent G.
BEVERLY HILLS MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
450 Johnson, Alise BEVERLY HILLS H. S. 461 Adhikari, Noah A.
160 Marten, Allison R. 500 Jones, Eli 904 Allana, Matthew S. 870 Delgado, Kassadey
162 Ryan, Trevor N. 200 Killmond, William F. 600 Im, Hyeunjeong 712 Duntugan, Sofie A.
000 Zim, Karanina L. 950 Richter, Jacob H. 945 Jeong, Dayeon 628 Lee, Cailyn
628 Stribling, Hazen M. 250 Park, Matthew J. 303 Newman, Joel
ALHAMBRA 906 Viotti, Nathan L. 161 Nishimura, Chad
MARK KEPPEL H. S. 999 Younes, Amanda
160 Kwok, Mikayla
BREA 451 Ramesh, Shohan Aadithya
451 Szeto, Jeffrey Y.
BREA OLINDA H. S.
MENLO SCHOOL 160 Liu, Christine CASTRO VALLEY
821 Wong, Kevin J. 000 Acra, Charlotte 204 Seo, Sean D. CASTRO VALLEY H. S.
999 Aufricht, Katherine M. 212 Yang, Tiffaney 450 Huang, Jimmy
ALISO VIEJO 907 Bai, Crystal W.
999 Tam, Michael S.
ALISO NIGUEL H. S. 303 Dharan, Kripa M.
628 Aubort, Nicole M. 162 Fenyo, Meredith
BRENTWOOD
160 Bustami, Zaid E.
HERITAGE H. S. CERRITOS
999 Hanson, John M.
628 Barrose, Cesar A. CERRITOS H. S.
185 Cheong, Anabella 900 Holland, Emma M.
628 Choi, Alisa Y. 457 Knifsend, Ethan D. 628 Yoo, Rachel S.
000 Jovanovic, Simon 200 Lee, Charlotte H. BUENA PARK
301 Kim, Jiin D. 475 Lim, Matthew A. BUENA PARK H. S. VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S.
000 Major, Andrew T. 141 Ma, Sulwen 455 Martinez Cabrera, Camila G. 450 Griffith, Tristan D.
454 Oh, Jaeyoung 946 Morgan, Aaron J.
628 Salazar, Ixchel T. 000 Morgan, Alex S. BURBANK GRETCHEN WHITNEY H. S.
200 Xia, Audrey J. 185 Park, Peridot BURBANK H. S. 628 Lim, Juwon
163 Pretre, Kyra E. 454 Chung, Corine 303 Mao, Ivan
ANAHEIM 943 Vaynblat, Elizabeth 520 Pape, Kim C. 160 Narayanan, Sujanya N.
CANYON H. S. 451 Virsik, Luke A. 303 Tong, Anna M. 302 Nghiem, Tuyet-Nhi T.
171 Grujic, Mark 830 Xu, Victoria Z. 451 Wang, Jonathan
161 Ong, Ethan A. 700 Yan, Ethan Y. LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE 740 Yuan, Joyce
LOS ANGELES
ESPERANZA H. S. SACRED HEART 000 Ricci-Deeb, Rachel C. CHATSWORTH
162 Nguyen, Brian K. PREPARATORY SCHOOL SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL
999 Birdwell, James H. BURLINGAME 000 Vadmal, Gowri M.
FAIRMONT PREPARATORY 303 Chun, Matthew BURLINGAME H. S.
ACADEMY 999 Kim, Ryan A. 999 Jaworski, Danielle CHICO
628 Kantamaneni, Pranav 455 Lim, Theresa A. 161 Tun, Kaung CHICO H. S.
999 Ong, Matthew E. 741 Thompson, Christina O. 455 van Hamel Platerink, Lavinia 906 Snider, Andrew P.
904 Razzak, Numair A.
553 Yoo, Alexisse H. BAKERSFIELD CALABASAS HOMESCHOOL
CENTENNIAL H. S. CALABASAS H. S. 400 Grigg, Barbara
APTOS 999 Cho, Angelina J. 185 Chen, Andrew
APTOS H. S. 450 Fujishin, Coleman M. PLEASANT VALLEY H. S.
999 deCastongrene, Erin M. STOCKDALE H. S. 629 Kalinin, Viola L. 628 Liu, Jacob Y.
843 Sandler, Jacob W. 303 Chang, Nicole A. 000 Lowe, Mark 502 Thau, Mason R.
628 Chuang, Vanessa C. 999 Nudell, Abby E. 522 Victor, Kara G.
ARCADIA 142 Desai, Khushali A.
ARCADIA H. S. 628 Mubin, Zara VIEWPOINT SCHOOL CHINO HILLS
185 Aung, Filbert 628 Shah, Rishi 300 Emi, Nicole M. RUBEN S. AYALA H. S.
457 Berkun, Samuel D. 628 Mackey, KaiLan S. 200 Das, Oishee
000 Chan, Jason M. BELMONT 202 Samek, Julian E. 907 Liu, Tiffany
303 Chan, Ryan Y. CARLMONT H. S. 454 Moon, Daniel S.
463 Chang, Albert 628 Ayers, Alessandra T. CAMARILLO 164 Tabassum, Asna
450 Cheng, Markis J. 160 Chamberlin, Alice ADOLFO CAMARILLO H. S. 218 Thakker, Anushka
161 Dai, Stephen X. 950 Espinoza, Eva R. 302 Nguyen, Huy C. 459 Zhang, William
162 Hsu, Kenneth B. 209 Li, Albert 000 Tran, Cassie U.
771 Ju, David 302 Luk, Vernon CHINO HILLS H. S.
253 Khine, Sandi W. 451 Mao, Jenny CAMPBELL 949 Wu, Janice W.
450 Lee, Robin 456 Mathew, George WESTMONT H. S.
303 Lee, William J. 302 Mitnick, Gabriel 303 Nair, Rahul R. CHULA VISTA
600 Mak, Kayli S. 454 Seaman, Joseph B. 843 Srivastava, Mridu OLYMPIAN H. S.
773 Manneth, Ajay M. 463 Sellami, Emna 999 Teoh, Janice Y. 773 Park, Seonggeun B.

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160 Indiresan, Neeti DANA POINT EL CAJON
California (continued) 164 Joseph, Tara DANA HILLS H. S. GROSSMONT H. S.
300 Kim, Joshua H. 836 Gravitt, Charles B. 743 Oleksyn, Alexander J.
999 Kim, Sabrina S.
OTAY RANCH H. S. 303 Lao, Nathaniel DANVILLE VALHALLA H. S.
300 Ilasin, Abemhel M. 200 Lee, Hanjune ATHENIAN SCHOOL 459 Basaka, Nicolas D.
461 Li, Karen 540 Liu, Constin
CLAREMONT 303 Mao, Kelly EL DORADO HILLS
CLAREMONT H. S. 168 Oh, Fiona D. MONTE VISTA H. S. HOMESCHOOL
167 Geary, Liam C. 303 Oh, Sooah 162 Girdner, Juliana A. 000 Dalessi, Joseph
162 Kang, Chaerim 300 Pietila, Jeremy P. 201 Habib, Arham A.
201 Xue, William 160 Ramesh, Aishwarya 520 Lee, Josephine R. OAK RIDGE H. S.
742 Refaee, Rebecca H. 870 Lee, Matthew E. 303 Hildebrandt, Joseph Z.
VIVIAN WEBB SCHOOL 164 Saran, Anushka 303 Shiffer, James N. 628 Zhu, Eric F.
900 Fu, Danyue 168 Shah, Kavya R. 906 Yue, Timothy S.
161 Li, Ruoqi 201 Shan, Carolyn W. 836 Zhang, Annie EL SEGUNDO
253 Shao, Jeffrey L. 773 Zhou, Caroline L. DA VINCI SCIENCE H. S.
WEBB SCHOOL OF CALIFORNIA 303 Singh, Sarina T. 302 Johnson, Philip D.
900 Chiu, Chun H. 600 Wang, Harrison S. SAN RAMON VALLEY H. S.
450 Liu, Eric M. 218 Wei, Brandon M. 450 Aitken, Catherine EL SEGUNDO H. S.
773 Raus, Luke W. 000 Wong, Osman 300 Gupta, Kanishk 467 Bar-On, Jonas M.
467 Xu, William
CLOVIS 904 Yang, Teresa Y. DAVIS VISTAMAR SCHOOL
FLOYD B. BUCHANAN H. S. 300 Yi, Alyson K. DA VINCI CHARTER ACADEMY 000 Handler, Adin L.
303 Wang, Vincent L. 204 Zhang, Gloria E. 000 Hirsch, Rebecca A. 742 Macdonald, Brian S.
999 Zhao, Johnry
CLOVIS H. S. DAVIS H. S. ELK GROVE
400 Siechert, Megan MONTA VISTA H. S. 160 Chatfield, Tate L. COSUMNES OAKS H. S.
870 Adiga, Spoorthi R. 743 Cho, Hannah Y. 619 Dizon, Nathan Joshua R.
CONCORD 302 Ayyappan, Varun 833 Fitzpatrick, Collin J. 164 Tran, Vietbao N.
CARONDELET H. S. 600 Bharadwaj, Akshay 209 Hansen, Remi P.
770 Bocek, Laura L. 628 Bhatt, Ritvi H. 162 Li, Anna LAGUNA CREEK H. S.
302 Chen, Glenn J. 204 Liu, Kimberly J. 999 Simmons, Rachel K.
DE LA SALLE H. S. 204 Chen, Jessica S. 000 Lo, Abigail
710 Katz, Cameron L. 164 Cheng, Alice Y. 999 Lopez, Elaje A. PLEASANT GROVE H. S.
999 Chou, Ke Wei 204 Lubin, Joshua M. 000 Errera, Nicole M.
CORONA 300 Cui, Audrey Y. 742 Qi, Allison Y. 000 Wells, Tanner C.
CORONA H. S. 999 Duan, Daniel 603 Su, Lindsey
741 Joyce, Gavin C. 999 Dunn, Jason ENCINITAS
300 Fu, Jason M. DIAMOND BAR THE GRAUER SCHOOL
CORONADO 771 Fung, Athena F. DIAMOND BAR H. S. 907 Stockton, Sophia M.
CORONADO H. S. 000 Gampala, Roshan 204 Chan, Courtney L.
000 Chapko, Brendan T. 303 Girkar, Krishna M. 459 Chang, Sean SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY
300 Goyal, Aryan 628 Chang, Tiffany 904 Oien, Tate
CULVER CITY 303 Gupta, Raghav 950 Chang, Valerie 900 Pickering, Thomas D.
CULVER CITY H. S. 161 Ho, Brandon C. 600 Chao, Michelle
742 Komatsu, Cooper E. 450 Irkar, Chaitanya P. 999 Chung, Joshua R.
ESCONDIDO
300 Iyer, Pratyush A. 501 Hassan, Mena K.
CALVIN CHRISTIAN H. S.
CUPERTINO 303 Iyer, Vishruth A. 209 Ho, Jonathan E.
451 Van Ee, Eliyana A.
CUPERTINO H. S. 301 Jain, Sahil 628 Lee, Yewon
000 Ahmad, Rehaan 302 Ji, Arthur H. 999 Lou, Ryan J.
CLASSICAL ACADEMY H. S.
000 Bharadwaj, Anjan P. 300 Kalidindi, Ronith N. 740 Lu, Catherine Z.
553 Beeler, Analiese R.
000 Bhattacharya, Amartya 999 Kamat, Sarthak 454 Murickan, Tom T.
160 Wagner, Gwendolyn R.
000 Campbell, Rianna K. 628 Kannankunni, Joshua P. 000 Pan, Mason
000 Chen, Grace C. 303 Kumar, Pranav 999 Shao, Karen
451 Sriram, Keshav FAIR OAKS
000 Chillal, Venugopal 303 Li, Isaac BELLA VISTA H. S.
000 Chu, Ashley 303 Lim, Vincent K. 466 Yen, Jessica
999 Zhang, Jolynn L. 467 Saenz, Victoria N.
000 Du, Andrew S. 999 Liu, Jia Ning
000 Du, Justin Y. 303 Luo, Richard 999 Zhang, Justin K.
303 Mahadev, Saagar R.
FAIRFIELD
000 Du, Olivia ANGELO RODRIGUEZ H. S.
000 Hong, Sun Ah 999 Majjiga, Arya R. DOWNEY
DOWNEY H. S. 461 Nasim, Jamal
000 Hsia, Jasmine 301 Nair, Tej Q.
000 Jeon, Kenneth Y. 301 Ranjan, Rishabh M. 999 Yu, Victoria
000 Jeong, Grace S. 999 Sarkar, Meghna FALLBROOK
000 Kann, Lillian J. 301 Shahriar, Reedit S. DUARTE FALLBROOK UNION H. S.
450 Singh, Jaspreet CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE 870 Lopez, Alan G.
000 Ke, Emily
000 Liu, Jerry B. 162 Subramanyam, Varsha ARTS SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
000 Liu, Kevin Y. 742 Tang, Andy A. 457 Hsiao, Jeremy FILLMORE
000 Ma, Angela G. 450 Thanvantri, Sowmya FILLMORE H. S.
000 Ng, Ryan 160 Tsujimoto, Kyle M. DUBLIN 999 Palazuelos, Isabella S.
000 Pratap, Siddhant 160 Upadhyay, Stuti J. DUBLIN H. S.
000 Ram Mohan, Sreehari 185 Wu, Alexander K. 457 Jagannathan, Aditi A. FOLSOM
000 Rao, Ashish P. 837 Xia, Iris 870 Jain, Ishaan N. FOLSOM H. S.
000 Sarkar, Bidipta 303 Ye, Sophie 903 Kang, Audrey 451 Amin, Ishan M.
000 Shah, Aashna K. 185 Yeh, Ashley K. 743 Kant, Manav 830 Sun, Andrew Haoyu
000 Shah, Ishika S. 303 Zhang, Tom 185 Kaur, Ishpreet 628 Wen, Brian C.
000 Sharma, Rachit 999 Zhou, Jonathan 000 Koh, Joshua L.
000 Shroff, Yash V. 302 Li, Kevin S. VISTA DEL LAGO H. S.
000 Sun, Randy J. 455 Lin, Roy T. 301 Ambavanekar, Anoushka V.
000 Sureshbabu, Sripad CYPRESS 301 Miller, Alexandre 600 Leung, Emily
000 Venkatapuram, Rohan N. CYPRESS H. S. 459 Pan, Gene 302 Nguyen, Mai-Thanh
000 Wang, Jasmin I. 164 Kim, Anthony 870 Paner, Rachel 628 Tan, Sydnee
000 Xiong, Jeffrey 501 Kim, Michael J. 303 Sharma, Mihika 942 Titus, Ashton L.
000 Young, Elisabeth M. 870 Rim, Hannah J. 000 Subramanian, Apoorva B. 467 Xiao, Dennis
000 Yu, Joshua C. 000 Suen, Claire
OXFORD ACADEMY 000 Sujith, Jeetu FOUNTAIN VALLEY
HOMESCHOOL 741 Feng, Bill 000 Tan, Jeffrey Z. FOUNTAIN VALLEY H. S.
999 Chi, Ryan A. 301 Liu, Anita C. 999 Vakil, Roshni 904 Dang, Mai
743 Perisic, Vuk 000 Wang, Caroline Y. 160 Nguyen, Katherine K.
HOMESTEAD H. S. 600 Pham, Steven K. 300 Vu, Jason
999 Bedekar, Roma 999 Phan, Juliana V. QUARRY LANE SCHOOL
742 Bhandarkar, Shaunak 200 Zhang, Blanca 300 Kant, Tanmay FREMONT
836 Bilsborrow, Kate E. 000 Lu, Tammy ALSION EARLY COLLEGE H. S.
883 Bronicki, Noa 000 Mitr, Rhea A. 629 Bollapragada, Pallavi R.
710 Choi, Alexander J. DALY CITY 000 Peddamallu, Ritika 870 Raghuram, Tejas
628 Gaywala, Siddharth N. SUMMIT SHASTA 501 Shetti, Johann 175 Sethi, Akash V.
950 Ho, Naomi 999 Aung, Ye M. 162 Tan, Thomas 904 Varma, Gaurav

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160 Gao, Angela TROY H. S. HEMET
California (continued) 999 Hsiao, Rachel 300 Anand, Shivana HEMET H. S.
600 Hsieh, Danielle 451 Bae, Brandon 000 Laskowski, Justin T.
000 Hsiu, Malcolm 605 Bao, Christie Y.
AMERICAN H. S. 209 Huang, Kimberly-Claire S. 501 Batchev, Michael D. HILLSBOROUGH
209 Asnani, Dev 303 Indap, Shreeya 773 Bose, Soham CRYSTAL SPRINGS
710 Babayan, Davit 160 Jain, Rishi 303 Chan, Clement J. UPLANDS SCHOOL
169 Desai, Anya S. 999 Krishnasami, Kavin S. 160 Chen, Darren 000 Cao, Stephanie
450 Fu, Andy 160 Kuchhangi, Ashika D. 218 Choi, Ethan Matthew C. 000 Chen, Justin W.
185 Hawkins, Angela E. 467 Lam, Angus 300 Chong, Daniel S. 000 Conn, Wilson
457 Kannan, Rithesh 300 Li, Karen J. 451 Coaty, Jacob P. 000 Cook, Evan A.
303 Khan, Afzal 999 Li, Lucia Y. 161 Hong, Christopher 000 Dicioccio, Peter C.
461 Kiran, Meghna 000 Lin, Vivienne Y. 417 Huh, Angela Y. 000 Hu, Clara
456 Liao, Austen L. 999 Liu, Brent 628 Huynh, Amber B. 000 Patel, Shilvaan U.
999 Lin, Emily 999 Liu, Brian Y. 300 Kim, Ahhyun 000 Yoon, Thomas B.
457 Liu, Annie 520 Liu, Jonathan 303 Kishore, Darin A.
836 Liu, Jeffrey C. 999 Liu, Patrick Y. 628 Lee, Eliana Y. HUNTINGTON BEACH
628 Ramachandran, Mira 302 Luan, Derek T. 300 Lee, Justin D. COAST H. S.
303 Ravi, Rohit 830 Ma, Eric Y. 870 Lee, Kristi C. 162 Zeng, Amber
773 Singhvi, Arnav 600 Mandal, Rick 300 Li, Jimmy
999 Sun, Michael 303 Murugappan, Ganesh M. 300 Lin, Ashley HUNTINGTON BEACH H. S.
742 Talati, Aditi 161 Pham, Christina 833 Loh, Megan Q. 628 Do, Natalie L.
000 Tatikonda, Nithin 999 Raju, Kanchan 303 Mason, Andres A. 628 Machado, Isabella C.
451 Vo, Connor K. 999 Rangavajjhala, Sanjay 451 Mo, Raymond A. 500 Macias, Randal
600 Zhao, Michelle 999 Ross, Angela A. 628 Park, Simon T. 628 McWilliams, Lauren R.
602 Zhou, Carol 160 Saxena, Monisha D. 451 Pyne, Sushovan
999 Shen, Matthew 303 Rim, Patrick K. MARINA H. S.
HOMESCHOOL 303 Shi, Kevin 600 Rodriguez, Amanda G. 451 Lorang, Nathaniel E.
455 Sarva, Jay S. 200 Sinha, Akshat 301 Shah, Rahil S.
166 Sivayogagnanamoorthy, 450 Singh, Chirag A.
Abishekanarayana 455 Song, Haechan
IRVINE
IRVINGTON H. S. 200 Tatavarthi, Vijay 308 Vivek, Sneha
ARNOLD O. BECKMAN H. S.
303 Balan, Einar 301 Aggarwal, Rahul V.
303 Tran, Nathan 463 Wang, Benjamin V.
161 Bansal, Anika 870 Choi, Wonjun
710 Tseng, Catherine 161 Wang, Derek M.
000 Batra, Sesha P. 628 Chu, Lauren M.
450 Vaidya, Shray V. 000 Wang, Hannah
302 Chang, Alan 303 Cui, Catherine
160 Vaidya, Tanishq M. 303 Xie, Kexin
000 Chung, Jonathan J. 628 Das, Isha
740 Vasudev, Adithya G. 160 Yang, Cheryl
500 Ding, Patrick Y. 773 Han, Ethan
160 Vykunta, Akshara B. 160 Yi, Aaron D.
160 Doriwala, Aseem 830 Heo, Jehyeok J.
303 Wei, Rachel 000 Yoon, Sarah
185 Geng, Irene S. 454 Kim, Elizabeth
160 Wudaru, Aalaya 000 Zhao, Justin
000 Ghankota, Aadhiti 185 Lee, Jimin
740 Xiang, Jennifer
467 Gunukula, Saaketh 712 Myrick, Colin
303 Xie, Steven R. VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY
303 Ippili, Vaibhav 162 Patel, Karina S.
301 Xu, Andrew J. 000 Uyemori, Julia K.
000 Khan, Raisah F. 450 Pieter, Kaelyn M.
999 Xu, Jessica
603 Khan, Youan H. 303 Sameshima, Tyler
999 Yang, Emily GARDEN GROVE
000 Khanna, Avi 742 Seifi, Vianna H.
830 Yang, Kelly GARDEN GROVE H. S.
000 Krachenfels, Kay 200 Shah, Isha
999 Yao, Alan E. 833 Trinh, Howard N.
999 Lin, Rachel Y. 209 Song, Kaleb J.
000 Yu, Christina
000 Lodha, Anushka
160 Yuen, Carina W. GILROY
999 Luo, Eliza CREAN LUTHERAN H. S.
209 Zhang, Alison Y. DR. T. J. OWENS GILROY EARLY
000 Mani, Varsha 907 Fitzgerald, Anthony R.
451 Zhang, Andrew COLLEGE ACADEMY
999 Mishra, Vidushee 000 Kim, Emilyne N.
161 Zhang, Jacqueline 999 Brown, Reno E.
303 Muktadir, Saqeef S. 000 Noh, Hyerin
999 Zhang, Miranda 607 LeQuang, Astin T.
160 Nagle, Arnav M.
160 Zhao, Ann
907 Nambiar, Ria IRVINE H. S.
467 Zheng, Alexander
000 Nguyen, Anita T. GLENDALE 836 Aiyar, Shruthi S.
000 Pammidimukkala, Pranav HERBERT HOOVER H. S. 160 Chu, Nathan
000 Pan, Vicki I. WASHINGTON H. S. 160 Chong, Justin 302 Du, Ryan T.
000 Patel, Araav H. 904 Biligiri, Anish
833 Minasyan, Mary H. 303 Jee, Yubin
000 Patel, Ashka 164 Chen, Fiona
628 Kotha, Sumasri V.
907 Peddibhotla, Rakesh M. 600 Cheng, Cindy
GOLETA 628 Lee, Faith M.
301 Samanta, Ankur 456 Du, Michael T.
DOS PUEBLOS H. S. 999 Patel, Anjali K.
457 Shah, Kathan 999 Guo, Nina Y.
302 Kommerell, Rhea A. 302 Tu, Raymond
160 Shahmohammadi Arani, Roxana 300 Kaeley, Jashan S.
628 Suh, Marina Y. 450 Yun, Junsang
600 Shen, Rachel F. 450 Malyala, Sweta A.
185 Singal, Anoushka 450 Panda, Pranit
999 Qureshi, Sahir S. GRANADA HILLS NORTHWOOD H. S.
160 Singh, Gurjap GRANADA HILLS CHARTER H. S. 160 Ali, Maizah
204 Singh, Jasraj 628 Shah, Vivek
301 Jain, Megha 843 Anand, Sasha S.
161 Singh, Jatin 301 Singh, Rishika
628 Jeoung, Hannah 999 Chao, Ally S.
301 Thacker, Abhay 303 Su, Zachary
830 Lee, Dylan J. 741 Chung, Seo-Yeon
303 Thakker, Sunidhi B. 457 Sukumar, Naveen C.
204 Lee, Jiwon 455 Dai, Andrew W.
303 Verma, Snehal 300 Tyagi, Mihir
302 Li, Zhuoyi 303 Dai, Shanglin
741 Wu, Athena I. 303 Vohra, Anura
302 Wang, Alison A. 457 Das, Pratyush
999 Xuan, Angela 542 Wang, Cindy X.
836 Deo, Rutvik S.
171 Xue, Athena Z. 628 Dihingia, Astriti K.
741 Yang, Alicia FRESNO GRANITE BAY
GRANITE BAY H. S. 303 Ghosh, Shounok
300 Zhu, Derek CLOVIS NORTH H. S. 303 Gopal, Neil G.
450 Akbar, Moaaz 185 Bansal, Dhilan S.
450 Zhu, Michael W. 450 Hu, Catherine H.
742 Cao, Scott 430 Chiou, Eugene V.
833 Sturdevant, Alana N. 770 Jou, Cynthia R.
JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S. 999 Chien, Kaitlyn A. 940 Kim, Hae-Min
301 Kumar, Richa 200 Wong, Nathan C.
451 Garg, Pranav 520 Kim, Kaitlyn S.
454 George, Daniel 454 Kwon, Yoonji A. 999 Le, Emily H.
161 Kavasseri, Tara B. HACIENDA HEIGHTS 740 Lim, Terrence Edson T.
600 Xie, Tammy CLOVIS WEST H. S. GLEN A. WILSON H. S. 773 Lin, Jessica
870 Gruce, Jordan M. 160 Lee, Rocelyn
164 Ma, Anna
MISSION SAN JOSE H. S. 451 Hernandez, Riley K. 907 Neervannan, Amala
303 Amin, Maaz HAWTHORNE 000 Nguyen, Brian A.
467 Anjaria, Parth UNIVERSITY H. S. HAWTHORNE MATHEMATICS AND 836 Olsen, Sarah C.
301 Arora, Shreyas 185 Fong, Logan L. SCIENCE ACADEMY 300 Rau, Sarika U.
999 Bielin, Ben 166 Li, Nina 459 Villaroman, Matthew S. 303 Shaik, Zaina
999 Chen, Helen 830 Zhao, Larry 300 Shi, Lisa L.
160 Chen, Iris HAYWARD 000 Shi, Michael B.
000 Chew, Josephine FULLERTON MOREAU CATHOLIC H. S. 600 Srinivas, Amirta
160 Chiu, Carolyn H. SUNNY HILLS H. S. 555 Tsou, Tiffany 908 Tiong, Jadyn E.
999 Chowdhury, Sreetama 200 Hur, Soo Min 999 Zhang, Joanna
743 Cui, Janet 185 Kho, Samuel C. HEALDSBURG
999 Dalmia, Yash 870 Kim, Kaylee E. HEALDSBURG H. S. PORTOLA H. S.
450 Dewan, Era 628 Lee, Cecilia 870 Whitlock, Aidan H. 450 Chen, Jason Y.

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Semifinalists: 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program
LA CRESCENTA LIVERMORE 455 Savagian, Alexandria E.
California (continued) CLARK MAGNET H. S. GRANADA H. S. 700 Steinberg, Julia L.
843 Barrios, Cole B. 999 Dean, Theodore H. 000 Surman, Elizabeth C.
167 Beach, Naomi A. 450 Shu, Andy
303 Chen, Joyee JOHN MARSHALL H. S.
300 Chi, Angelica H. CRESCENTA VALLEY H. S. LIVERMORE H. S. 600 Chang, Hannah
999 Delianedis, Nicholas F. 000 Bullard, Jackson S. 303 Ha, Elliot H. 303 Guynn, Mateo J.
907 Francis, Nishad 628 Kim, Justin S. 900 Iragavarapu, Sai Priyanka S.
000 Guo, Tianxin 990 Lai, Abel C. NEW COVENANT ACADEMY
710 Jang, Joo Young 185 Paik, Sarah S. LOMA LINDA 722 Kim, Gina M.
600 Jung, Esther 773 Summers, Shyla J. LOMA LINDA ACADEMY
628 Qiao, Annie 700 Lee, Karenna E. NEW WEST CHARTER SCHOOL
999 Tang, Stephanie A. 000 Barash, Michael A.
LA HABRA 160 Torro, Marisol Q.
250 Tu, Grace SONORA H. S. LONG BEACH
999 Wang, Andrew 162 Cheah, Jonathan P. INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
160 Zahedi, Dorsa ACADEMY SHALHEVET H. S.
161 Zeng, Xian Lun 168 Seydel, Isaac D. 000 Rubel, Evan S.
990 Zhang, Stephanie LA JOLLA
THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL LOS ALAMITOS WINDWARD SCHOOL
999 Ai, Matthew S. LOS ALAMITOS H. S. 520 Pirri, Sofia L.
TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY 162 Bender, Andrew J.
DAY SCHOOL 000 Fair, Aidan P. 999 Ricanati, Lev A.
209 Cappetta, Rocco M. 000 Fredlund, Leela L. 999 Smale, Kara M.
741 Berdy, Ilan D. 185 Chen, Jasmine J. 000 Kelman, Stephen R.
999 Chen, Julia M. 000 Kubiatko, Katherine LOS GATOS
UNIVERSITY H. S. 559 Fan, Michelle
843 Alber, Samuel A.
LOS GATOS H. S.
999 Finley, Ryan T.
605 Chae, Ji Won LOS ALTOS 999 Katakis, Kayla N.
451 Fogel, Sabrina C. 700 Kumar, Reya M.
463 Chen, James Y. LOS ALTOS H. S.
450 Hunter, Meredith J. 451 Lee, Lauren S.
204 Chen, Joy K. 999 Aaron, Jessica D.
200 Krishnan, Sarina 970 Li, Cindy
450 Chen, Sophia Y. 161 Akiyama, Kylie L.
303 Lee, Ian G. 467 Lim, Raeshon E.
300 Cho, Jeongwon 303 Atluri, Elena J.
999 Li, Jessica H. 451 McHugh, Liam S.
300 Chou, Daniel Y. 303 Borkovic, Isabella
209 Lobo, Justin R. 999 Nguyen, Aubrey L.
164 Choudhary, Neel K. 457 Bratt, Owen S.
906 Shim, Tobey E. 160 Rao, Anoushka
904 Du, Dylan 454 Chou, Cassandra C.
301 Sottosanti, Thomas B. 303 Sharma, Mira
700 Fruman, Anna 450 Hejna, Joshua E.
870 Xiao, Jamie 218 Srinivasan, Naren
200 Fukuda, Emily L. 000 Hu, Daniel B.
303 Huang, Natalie 254 Thomas, Blake J.
303 Garde, Aidan A. LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 904 Huang, Nathan 450 Wong, Christina E.
162 Ghahremani, Sam 628 Nair, Nikita
467 Huang, William J. 459 Ih, Olivia E.
463 Ruan, Jiayi 870 Lee, Cassidy C. LOS OLIVOS
161 Kim, Alexis H. 906 Wirtz, Matthew J.
450 Kowshik, Pooja S. 301 Liu, Maxwell S. DUNN SCHOOL
600 Yang, Wendy A. 209 Liu, Megan C. 450 Cheng, Xiaotong
999 Kroll, Hunter F.
185 Lihardo, Kayla J. 302 Machnicki, Kyle A.
303 Liu, Jack X. LA MESA 559 Merchant, Karim A. MALIBU
254 Liu, Katie K. HELIX CHARTER H. S. 454 Mujica, Elena M. MALIBU H. S.
999 Lou, Brian 000 Kuhlken, Zoe A. 843 Salkola, Mikko 450 Mellberg, Maximus J.
712 Lu, Eric 161 Sanjeevan, Riana H.
999 Tiet, Thien-Nha MANHATTAN BEACH
870 Lu, Tiffany LA PALMA
160 McPhie, Katherine 303 Yu, Oliver K. HOMESCHOOL
JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S.
999 Pangaluru, Preetham Vignesh 742 Yung, Sarah J. 904 Ford, Emily M.
454 Hur, Jennifer
999 Singh, Ritik 301 Zhu, Michelle Y.
208 Oh, David
451 Song, Jason MIRA COSTA H. S.
999 Stanford, Casey Q. LOS ALTOS HILLS 999 Fiorito, Alexander G.
LA VERNE PINEWOOD SCHOOL
741 Subramaniam, Anivrit BONITA H. S. 303 Qi, Jonathan J.
302 Swanson, Andrew R. 461 Chui, Katherine A.
450 Wong, Nathan C. 160 Li, Peirong
843 Wong, Nyle T. 628 Zhang, Alexander M. MENLO PARK
HOMESCHOOL
WOODBRIDGE H. S. LOS ANGELES 170 Manbeck-Mosig, Dalton
999 Chen, Ziyi
LAFAYETTE ALLIANCE STERN MATH AND
ACALANES H. S. SCIENCE SCHOOL
628 Deist, Laura A.
832 Leones, Demetrios A.
MERCED
170 Hoang, Ryan L. 836 Soong, Catelynn
999 Mickas, Kara H.
EL CAPITAN H. S.
185 Kim, Jun Hyuk 454 Ma, Derrick M.
999 Yao, Yicheng THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
463 Lee, Ethan
185 Shon, Rachel H. 000 Kraus, Stella M.
MERCED H. S.
600 Tram, Michelle T. BENTLEY SCHOOL 999 Chen, David D.
185 Tran, Ryan V. 000 Copeland, Andrew FRANCISCO BRAVO MEDICAL
MAGNET H. S.
166 Patel, Ekta M. MILL VALLEY
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE LAGUNA BEACH TAMALPAIS H. S.
742 Patel, Sneh M.
FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY LAGUNA BEACH H. S. 254 Wall-Feng, Benjamin B.
SCHOOL 451 Chu, Kenneth
450 Herkins, Kyle
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
000 Detchemendy, Gage P. 000 Bilder, Leopold MILLBRAE
628 Khurana, Maya S. 000 Broukhim, Oliver J. MILLS H. S.
000 McCormick, Charles W. LAGUNA HILLS 000 Muntz, Nicholas Y. 000 Liu, Jeffrey C.
000 Oertel, Emerson LAGUNA HILLS H. S. 999 Weinbach, Mirabelle L.
999 Shure, Sylvie M. 160 Richter, Joshua B. MILPITAS
000 Siskel, Simon D. LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR MILPITAS H. S.
LAKE FOREST ENRICHED STUDIES 999 Cho, Vanessa H.
FLINTRIDGE SACRED EL TORO H. S. 843 Deering, Vanessa D. 164 Kirmani, Dania
HEART ACADEMY 185 Shenthan, Vasheeigaran T. 000 Lin, Lily Y. 303 Lau, Alden T.
185 Manaloto, Katrina P. 167 Tran, Bryan V. 906 Schechter, Noah E. 600 Le, Tran N.
742 Wire, Colin B. 628 Lin, Melanie
LA CANADA H. S. 200 Malhotra, Ayushi
LAKESIDE 907 Mulaomerovic, Neval
462 Bhaskaran, Sonia A. RIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL LOS ANGELES COUNTY H. S. FOR
832 Biskup, Tigerlily M. THE ARTS 300 Snead, Charles
201 Brunkow, Alexa N.
600 Bohan Apfeldorf, Max D. 999 Zhao, Pannisy
741 Choi, Delaney G. MISSION VIEJO
999 Finnigan, Shanna L. LANCASTER LOYOLA H. S. CAPISTRANO VALLEY H. S.
870 Garland, Emma C. PARACLETE H. S. 999 Jackson, Jerome M. 303 Kardan, Neil
740 Kawamura, Wren E. 870 Huerta, Mia E. 501 O'Callahan, Conor S. 999 Maltsev, Anthony
628 Kearl, Naomi 451 Soule, Hayden M. 214 Vayser, Tahlia
467 Krider, Stephen J. LARKSPUR
185 Lee, Katie H. REDWOOD H. S. MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL MISSION VIEJO H. S.
501 Shukla, Vinay L. 999 Goodman, Drake A. 553 Arroyo, Isabel E. 450 Gold, Shaun F.
185 Singh, Rohan 467 Oppenheim, Eva 999 Chaskes, Mira
000 Smith, Michael 450 Redmond, Ryan A. 000 Dickerman, Catherine G. TRABUCO HILLS H. S.
451 Yeu, Irene H. 843 Ross, Owen D. 999 Lee, Maya J. 451 Kumar, Anirudh J.
000 Zhao, Daniel 742 Strausbaugh Hjelmsta, Abigail Y. 454 Newsom, Emilynne S. 999 Li, Chloe H.

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NEWHALL 710 Keeling, William R. 999 Jiang, Emma Y.
California (continued) WILLIAM S. HART H. S. 999 Kelliher, Charlotte 999 Kao, Jonathan F.
160 Friedler, Justyn M. 720 Letscher, Luke A. 160 Li, Miranda
454 Gooneratne, Grace M. 999 Rosenbaum, Sydney J. 742 Limb, Rebekah Y.
MODESTO 907 Solin, Malena 450 Lin, Amy
FRED C. BEYER H. S. NEWPORT BEACH 142 Zhang, Ian L. 833 Orr, Emily M.
836 Tallcott, Sophia E. CORONA DEL MAR H. S. 836 Scott, Nathaniel J.
000 Green, Asher R. VILLANOVA PREPARATORY 162 Shi, Jenny Q.
JAMES C. ENOCHS H. S. SCHOOL 303 Tan, Caleb C.
902 Currin, Logan J. SAGE HILL SCHOOL 300 DeClerck, Naomi M. 302 Tang, Ivory T.
628 Miao, Eric R. 999 Cai, Jennifer J. 200 Tong, Stephanie Y.
999 Panyanouvong, Nicholas L. 710 Chung, Darcy ORCUTT 000 Tsang, Riley C.
999 Gang, Albert ORCUTT ACADEMY H. S. 946 Xu, Ashley J.
MODESTO H. S. 999 Guo, Timothy T. 303 Jin, William 000 Xu, Jeremy T.
185 Thompson, Rachel M. 999 Hosseinzadeh, Ryan A. 300 Yan, Yuzheng
166 Kaneko, Olivia C. ORINDA 950 You, Davis E.
MONTROSE 628 Kim, Kayla A. HOMESCHOOL 999 Zhuang, Allison
ST. MONICA ACADEMY 836 Kwon, Alexander 742 Schroff, Jeffae C.
950 Decker, Sarah G. 300 Lin, Valentina A. PALO CEDRO
161 Lizarde, Catherine R. 628 Mlouk, Kate R. MIRAMONTE H. S. FOOTHILL H. S.
906 Sajjadian, Amin M. 000 Andrews, Nisha S. 628 Wu, Melody S.
MORAGA 164 Walbridge, Jeffrey W. 000 Berg, Caroline A.
CAMPOLINDO H. S. 000 Gan, Eric Y. PALOS VERDES ESTATES
000 Johnson, Annika NORTH HILLS 000 Guymon, Sophie M. PALOS VERDES H. S.
000 Kondrich, Lisa M. HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 000 Krochmal, Isabelle K. 999 Dugel, Alexis H.
000 Leach, Anne F. 773 Tan, Joseph D. 000 Lakhotia, Shaili 451 Farrier, Morgan E.
000 Levin, Adina M. 000 Naylor, Leo J. 300 Knoblauch, Bradley M.
000 Morgan, Benjamin K. NORTH HOLLYWOOD 000 Swe, Valerie T. 254 Lai, Phoebe E.
000 Nguyen, Pablo D. CAMPBELL HALL 000 Wang, Lucy 467 Lok, Anton B.
000 Pierrat, Bianca 000 Song, Chris 209 Munro, Sophie C.
000 Wang, Isabel J. PACIFIC GROVE 700 Steman, Samantha R.
000 Zhang, Catherine NORTH HOLLYWOOD H. S. PACIFIC GROVE H. S.
619 Ahmed, Farah P. 450 Chowdhury, Mitali PALOS VERDES PENINSULA
MORGAN HILL 450 Cho, Sean 169 Hays, Delson CHADWICK SCHOOL
LIVE OAK H. S. 830 Dong, Hannah J. 209 Breus, Cooper S.
201 Squires, Emma M. 773 Jin, Emily PACIFIC PALISADES 628 Chung, Hyun Yee
301 Kannan, Kathiravan PALISADES CHARTER H. S. 999 Elliott, Mia C.
OAKWOOD SCHOOL 560 Kim, Patrick J. 303 Jang, Brian Y. 520 Elliott, Paige C.
457 Kornelsen, Nolan K. 301 Lee, Isabel J. 254 Kerkorian, Ava C. 454 Handler, Julian E.
300 Pabla, Jashan S. 999 O'Connor, Christine C. 999 Kim, Alice J. 999 Heisler, Jacob E.
170 Rajhans, Abhas 710 Pisharody, Siddharth P. 999 Kim, Nicole J. 204 Jeong, Jacob
970 Xu, James J. 712 Rozen, Ari S. 999 Law, Isaac S. 943 Kim, Ryan B.
770 Xie, Cindy J. 970 Lehman, Jonathan M. 999 Ranparia, Valmik D.
ANN SOBRATO H. S. 843 Scott, Tobias H.
166 Lam, Myan OAKWOOD SCHOOL PASADENA
999 Tran, Dean H. 999 Mostow, Sarah R. PALO ALTO LA SALLE H. S.
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL 303 Tam, Lance L.
MOUNTAIN VIEW NOVATO 303 Migdal, Eliza
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL NOVATO H. S. 214 Wang, Suzanna MARANATHA H. S.
SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY 627 Krejdovsky, Camille J. 455 Purnomo, Justin C.
830 Zhuromskyy, Paul A. 740 Park, Nikita S. HENRY M. GUNN H. S. 870 Wu, Samantha T.
160 Chandra, Rishi 999 Wu, Sara S.
MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S. SAN MARIN H. S. 900 Cheng, Claire
300 Ashby, Jack U. 970 Wang, Cais M. 501 Chu, Elaine POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
561 Blalack, Kayla A. 870 Williams, Emma F. 946 Fong, Nelea K. 000 Deschenes, Michael N.
740 Chen, Karina E. 303 Goel, Swati 999 Hashimoto, Caroline M.
303 Chen, Zachary C. OAKLAND 300 Han, Aileen 907 Hershman, Jordan D.
204 Kim, Alex J. COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL 160 Ho, Matthew S.
300 Perrochon, Arielle S. 000 Detre, Isabel M. 303 Hou, Cathy WESTRIDGE SCHOOL
999 Shenoy, Nakul 000 Helton, Hanako J. 830 Hsu, Ryan M. 000 Dong, Elisa
161 Temme, William D. 000 Ilfeld, Adin E. 870 Huang, Annie 000 Owen, Reese A.
200 Tseng, Matthew H. 000 Jammula, Rohit 301 Kau, Elliott 000 Sadda, Jaya R.
000 Jiang, Andrew 999 Kwon, Allison 000 Soldner-Garcia, Leah
ST. FRANCIS H. S. 000 Lehmann Duke, Jacob 950 Lee, Peyton M.
454 Aatresh, Aishani V. 000 Miller, Emily Z. 741 Liu, Caroline
459 Aranyosi, Mate 000 Peale, William B. PASO ROBLES
467 Makler, Theodore C.
000 Prabandham, Manu PASO ROBLES H. S.
454 Chu, Katelyn L. 209 Marghescu, Erica L.
000 Riskin-Kutz, Madeleine J. 456 Hunt, Jeremy
630 Cornillon, Antonin B. 204 Mei, Joshua Z.
740 Deolalikar, Rohil 000 Tooper, Nicole K. 854 Oh, Mina K.
999 Gao, Sarah Y. 000 Wei, Grace 303 Parulekar, Mallika PEBBLE BEACH
300 Ghatare, Adishree S. 000 Yang, David 904 Qu, Daniel Z. STEVENSON SCHOOL
999 Huang, Wynna Z. 743 Ren, Eric R. 300 Chung, Yeonoo B.
870 Imai, Seiji N. HEAD - ROYCE SCHOOL 870 Roake, Juliette E. 211 Gu, Catherine
303 Jain, Rithik 000 Brakeman, Amzie S. 999 Rosenzweig, Callie V. 166 Orias, Holden E.
170 Joshi, Aarjav J. 000 Chin, Phillip L. 303 Seligman, Oren 999 Zhang, Wanlin
894 Kannan, Maya L. 303 Haas, Isabel A. 303 Smith, Nicole U. 185 Zhang, Yutong
253 Kawahara, Ryan J. 000 Jutamulia, Elaine C. 000 Tao, Miranda
907 Li, Michelle 999 Kayari, Lauren N. 302 Wang, Andy PIEDMONT
740 Li, Tiffany Z. 000 Rosen, Elizabeth G. 999 Wang, Brandon T. PIEDMONT H. S.
000 Liu, Arron R. 164 Sozat, Alp K. 303 Wang, Jessica 252 Cheung, Francisco C.
300 Maheriya, Ashvatth K. 000 Wogan, Aiden P. 300 Yin, Jonathan 628 Costello, Amelia C.
160 Moy, Nathan L. 628 Yu, Isabella 883 Ferraro, Jaden C.
301 Natarajan, Anirudh M. OAKLAND TECHNICAL H. S. 628 Yu, Miranda J.
907 Nguyen, Arianne 999 Ryan, Oscar F. 628 Yuen, Ethan H. PLACENTIA
450 Popescu, Stefan 300 Zamir, Guy M. EL DORADO H. S.
743 Quan, Matthew A. SKYLINE H. S. 628 Zhao, Manya 907 Bladow, Colby E.
303 Sharma, Avya 999 Wikstrom, Eleanor Mary V.
454 Vinod, Kavitha M. PALO ALTO H. S. VALENCIA H. S.
OCEANSIDE 999 Athayde, Joshua A. 185 Ahmed, Adila
NEWBURY PARK MISSION VISTA H. S. 300 Banwasi, Anuva 459 Bang, Rachel Y.
NEWBURY PARK H. S. 185 Krause, Peter W. 830 Brand, Kayla 162 Chen, Andrea
501 Choi, Steven Y. 302 Chang, Olivia Z. 300 Choe, Hailey H.
999 Gong, Brendon OJAI 999 Chen, Annie Y. 459 Khou, Justin
300 Juan, Nathan T. THE THACHER SCHOOL 456 Douglas, Kai J. 204 Kim, Frank
160 Moffit, Mackenzie 000 Dunne, Ian M. 000 Feitzinger, Allyse K. 628 Kim, Nathan K.
461 Mohandas, Archana A. 950 Geyer, John C. 000 Giovangrandi, Thomas 999 Min, Stephen L.
999 Nagorsen, Mikkel D. 999 Harding, William 000 Guo, Ashley J. 301 Prabaharan, Janani L.

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162 Liu, Nathan K. TECHNOLOGY H. S. 999 Tsai, Kayleah S.
California (continued) 740 Siegersma, Jacob R. 301 Jenkins, Travis J. 710 Zhang, Kristyn M.
999 Tan, Amy J. 303 Zhulin, Maxim
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES
PLACERVILLE RANCHO CUCAMONGA H. S. PALOS VERDES PENINSULA H. S. SAN CLEMENTE
OCEAN GROVE CHARTER SCHOOL 628 Sayat, Lauren R. 463 Alimento, Ryan E. SAN CLEMENTE H. S.
559 Ong, Julia J. 678 Anand, Suraj K. 168 Burick, Sophia A.
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA 904 Bae, Joshua S. 771 Cassidy, Kayleigh R.
PLEASANT HILL SANTA MARGARITA 160 Channell, Catherine I. 167 Gabriel, Kristin L.
COLLEGE PARK H. S. CATHOLIC H. S. 161 Cho, Yeji
451 Kilcoin, Ryan D. 000 Biddiscombe, Erin E. 160 Foltz, Zachary M. SAN DIEGO
162 Morehead, Andrew M. 000 Bonin, Brett E. 999 Hasama, Evelyn H. ACADEMY OF OUR LADY
000 Bonin, Calli S. 999 Hasama, Summer M. OF PEACE
PLEASANTON 000 Cheung, Jordan 999 Jalan, Arpit 000 Fowler, Annabelle
AMADOR VALLEY H. S. 520 Crafts, Claire P. 629 Kim, Charley C.
454 Ayyagari, Ramya 000 Endraws, Daniel P. 204 Kumar, Sanjay A. CANYON CREST ACADEMY
450 Bhaskar, Aditya T. 000 Weeks, Ashley D. 999 Masuda, Emily M. 000 Abbot, Esme E.
999 Chen, Brian 450 Oh, Hanser K. 000 Arnold, Katherine R.
303 Dawit, Kaleb H. 450 Ro, Ethan C. 000 Bertrand, Quentin C.
TESORO H. S.
000 Garg, Arnav 162 Sims, Nicholas L. 000 Burns, Amelia H.
700 Chun, Joseph B.
000 Geng, Carolyne 204 Syal, Casey 000 Cao, Yuan
710 Fessler, Elizabeth G.
000 Green, Sarah E. 161 Syed, Mishal Imaan 000 Chang, Katherine M.
171 Li, Yi-Ann C.
000 Gupta, Anjali 999 Yoo, Alexandra J. 000 Chen, Connie
628 Rao, Emily D.
000 Kalavacherla, Sruthi 171 Zhang, Elizabeth Y. 000 Chen, Grace
303 Wu, Darren M.
628 Kallingal, Shreyas G. 160 Wu, Jackie X. 000 Chen, Sean S.
300 Keerthipati, Vikranth V. 303 Xiang, Sophia T. ROSEVILLE 000 Cheng, April Q.
218 Kim, Jacob C. 302 Zheng, Tianyi HOMESCHOOL 000 Cheng, Carl
455 Lee, Jessica S. 950 Baird, Joanna H. 000 Choudhari, Rene
000 Leong, Javan 502 Boyum, Joshua A. 000 Doshi, Shefali
REDDING
000 Li, David C. HOMESCHOOL 000 Elarabawy, Adham A.
000 Li, Jeremy Z. ROSEVILLE H. S. 000 Feng, Andrew T.
555 Ho, Laura K. 741 True, Parker D.
000 Li, Mona 000 Fox, Eleanor A.
000 Limaye, Sayli 000 Gao, Emily Y.
000 Luan, Jessica REDLANDS WOODCREEK H. S. 000 Ghattas Smith, Conrad S.
000 Mehta, Aditya REDLANDS EAST VALLEY H. S. 160 Rao, Adithi S. 000 Guo, Elaine J.
000 Mei, Jennifer M. 000 Sohn, Elizabeth J.
000 Hsieh, Patricia
000 Munukutla, Srikar A. ROSS 000 Hu, Evan S.
000 Rong, Clara C. REDLANDS H. S. BRANSON SCHOOL 000 Huang, Enoch I.
000 Saxena, Parth 162 Lee, Jonathan S. 214 Fletcher, Charlotte R. 000 Huynh, Wei-Shan
000 Su, Derica J. 459 Philip, Tristan M. 160 Golden, Adriana E. 000 Jung, Erika
630 Tam, Christopher G. 999 Tilton-Low, George P. 000 Kang, Gabrielle Y.
000 Thomas, Evan D. REDONDO BEACH 160 Wangenheim, Emily A. 000 Kanodia, Arnav V.
999 Wu, Richard H. REDONDO UNION H. S. 000 Kim, Elise A.
300 Wu, William M. 160 Chakladar, Sundeep ROWLAND HEIGHTS 000 Krueger, Emily M.
870 Yang, Gina 121 Rebentisch, Vanessa JOHN A. ROWLAND H. S. 000 Lee, Jangwoo
463 Yang, Lucas G. 999 Chang, Milo 000 Lee, Joshua J.
455 Youn, Junga REDWOOD CITY 833 Hsu, Ethan 000 Leychkis, Daniel E.
162 Yuan, Justine DESIGN TECH H. S. 000 Madhukara, Rachana
629 Zhang, Michael 000 Liu, Brandon J. SACRAMENTO 000 Mallery, Finley F.
300 Zhong, Kathy 000 McHugo, Jocelyn S. BRADSHAW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 000 Morris, Eli H.
301 Shedd, Ethan H. 161 Nguyen, Ryan A. 000 Namkung, Soobin
FOOTHILL H. S. 000 Neelappa, David M.
628 Chen, Alexander SEQUOIA H. S. HOMESCHOOL 000 Nilipour, Andy N.
742 Earle, Elizabeth L. 000 Fischer, Charlotte 559 Hsu, Grace J. 000 Picker, Julia L.
450 Goebel, Thomas B. 000 Simon, Michael L. 000 Peralta-Rawson, Roxana P. 000 Pollner, Alina V.
467 House, Braedon A. 000 Pusateri, Luke M.
522 Huang, Andrew X. JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S. 000 Singhal, Varun R.
907 Kapai, Anika K. RESEDA 160 Jhawar, Rohit 000 Song, Mabel
712 Lee, Allison S. CLEVELAND H. S. 000 Song, Raymond Y.
301 Natarajan, Nandhan 455 Chavez-Matul, Jhon C. C. K. MC CLATCHY H. S. 000 Sur, Mira A.
000 Nguyen, Vivian 201 King, Christine P. 451 Dean, Jacob O. 000 Tian, Andrew Z.
164 Panwar, Sonya A. 900 Yang, Kiwon R.
000 Tsai, Devin M.
467 Prakash, Tarun MIRA LOMA H. S. 000 Wang, Catherine
830 Ren, Alex J. RICHMOND 160 Karayi, Gnaneswari 000 Wang, Elaine M.
682 Seo, Allen HOMESCHOOL 843 Qin, Albert W. 000 Wang, Justin T.
303 Shen, Alex J. 999 Thein, May S. 000 Srinivasan, Anjali R. 000 Wang, Kaitlyn M.
870 Sinha, Sana V. 161 Srinivasan, Anusha R. 628 Wooden, Christina M.
710 Stacey, Carina C. RIDGECREST 741 Wang, Alexander Y. 000 Xiong, Samuel Z.
175 Su, Ying-Li SHERMAN E. BURROUGHS H. S. 000 Xu, Eric Y.
520 Wang, Lindsay Z. 000 Murphree, Andrea M. NATOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL 000 Yan, Sonia S.
942 Wang, Zhaojia J. 999 Segura-Moon, Brennan 000 Yao, Derrick Z.
171 Xu, Warren X. RIVERSIDE 000 Zhang, Faith
999 Xue, David S. MARTIN LUTHER KING H. S. RIO AMERICANO H. S. 000 Zhang, Wesley
843 Yao, Alan 833 Bardeen, Owen J. 743 Westover, Davis E. 000 Zhao, Steven Y.
450 Yeung, Austin C. 830 Koh, Edward W.
712 Zhu, Michael S. 628 Shon, Hanna SACRAMENTO COUNTRY CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC H. S.
DAY SCHOOL 470 Hallinan, Aidan M.
POMONA JOHN W. NORTH H. S. 214 Barnard-Bahn, Larkin C. 467 Nash, Nathan S.
INTERNATIONAL 999 Cui, Audrey L. 999 Krishnan, Anuradha 451 Paul, Daniel J.
POLYTECHNIC H. S. 999 Wilson, Maxwell C.
946 Wu, Christian Y. ST. FRANCIS H. S.
RIVERSIDE STEM ACADEMY 302 Grehm, Hannah E.
836 Lee, Michael DEL NORTE H. S.
PORTOLA VALLEY 999 Kim, Lauren 605 Aslam-Mir, Ayesha S.
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL 160 Babu, Priyanka N.
301 Schmulbach, Viansa A. WOODCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SAN ANSELMO 121 Basmatkar, Mansi
000 Whitehouse, Ella C. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE H. S. 160 Dogra, Arushi
POWAY 160 Brisco-Schofield, Ariana T. 999 Du, Julia
POWAY H. S. ROCKLIN 461 Duggirala, Sravani R.
999 Downs, Katherine L. ROCKLIN H. S. SAN BERNARDINO 162 Feng, Ellie
000 Middelberg, Nicholas J. 836 Chan, Ethan P. OAK PARK H. S. 300 Gao, Lucy
520 Rios Brady, Diego W. 451 Turner, Nicholas A. 451 Adicherla, Rithwik M. 520 Gunawan, Hazelle E.
467 Salamy, Joseph L. 455 Vijay, Mridini 459 Aggarwal, Dhruv N. 542 Huynh, Vivian Y.
628 Wakayama, Christine A. 999 Zhang, Stephanie Y. 185 Chen, Yixuan 999 Iter, Michael J.
302 Fernandez, Luca C. 600 Ke, Kyle N.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA ROHNERT PARK 160 Gaspar, James C. 303 Khandelwal, Priya
LOS OSOS H. S. CREDO H. S. 682 Lin, Rachel H. 303 Mittal, Rupin
773 Dingle, James 901 Kaplan-Kinsey, Esme P. 628 Mahmood, Shayan 906 Mousa, Nora A.

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Semifinalists: 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program
450 Mehndiratta, Raghav BELLARMINE COLLEGE 467 Sonecha, Rohan R.
California (continued) 451 Olim, Ethan R. PREPARATORY 168 Sudeep, Nathan
302 Ryu, Daniel H. 628 Behal, Aditya 454 Tang, Christine T.
161 Schwartz, Shahar 209 Bhau, Arnav N. 204 Tang, Michael
843 Nienstedt, John E. 000 Song, Junu 450 Bridges, Anson G. 894 Tiwari, Anika
164 Park, Chan H. 904 Venkateswaran, Rohan 160 Chiruvolu, Tarun 160 Tonev, Nellie C.
303 Patil, Pranav 904 Wang, Andrea 999 Dwivedula, Akshaj 999 Tuan, Jin
209 Shahid, Nabeel 303 Watwani, Arav 300 Garlepp, Justin B. 710 Uyanik, Nerine X.
209 Stratton, Andrew R. 999 Wu, Leon 204 Garrow, James P. 218 Vakath, Zara
175 Sundar, Keerthana 501 Xia, William Y. 451 Gnibus, John M. 833 Wang, Bryan
162 Thokachichu, Pranav S. 160 Zhang, Danqi 204 Gonzalez, Jacob D. 999 Wang, Nathan D.
162 Vora, Manasvi H. 999 Zhang, Steven 303 Gupta, Aditya 999 Xu, Anthony Y.
628 Wang, Andrew F. 457 Zou, William J. 821 Kim, Yun Jae 999 Yang, Jacqueline O.
303 Wang, Brandon 450 Kothari, Anuj S. 999 Yang, Jeffrey
360 Wu, Skyler SAN FRANCISCO 720 Lai, Sherwin
999 Xu, Helen BAY SCHOOL 300 Ma, Marcus J. HOMESCHOOL
160 Zhou, Evan Y. 742 DeSchepper, Leila B. 300 Menezes, Tanay 999 Ahmed, Juwayria A.
300 Nazai, Matthew A. 000 Arumugham, Nathan
PATRICK HENRY H. S. INTERNATIONAL H. S. 171 Patel, Shaan S.
000 Nguyen, Truc T. 772 Pickering, Matthew 600 Phan, Matthew K. INDEPENDENCE H. S.
300 Vishwarupe, Jay S. 204 Lin, Tiersha
HOMESCHOOL LICK - WILMERDING H. S.
461 Zhu, Daniel C. 303 Grant, Benjamin J. BRANHAM H. S. LEIGH H. S.
160 Martin, Julia D. 000 Ahmed, Aaron R. 121 Chaudhary, Kaden S.
MIRA MESA H. S. 999 Yee, Evan K. 169 Deans, William A. 712 Kavaldjiev, Alexander D.
628 Mina, Ruzenell Jessica A. 000 Jayamohan, Alisha R. 300 Kim, Kevin
162 Nguyen, Khanh P. 450 Peng, Phillip L.
LOWELL H. S.
MOUNT CARMEL H. S. 999 Chen, Jessica 870 Song, Grace K.
600 Gregg, Kendra 999 Chew, Madeline K. EVERGREEN VALLEY H. S. 164 Thomas, Isabel
000 Kim, Isaiah H. 999 Deng, Zachary R. 600 Arunarthi, Megana 906 Zhang, Ashley
603 Fuchs, Audrey A. 161 Chariyamane, Amogh L.
FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL 999 Huynh, Dylan V. 628 Do, Justin H. LELAND H. S.
999 Duncan, Connor M. 999 Jang, Nicole G. 162 Eng, Kanta T. 465 Chang, Esther A.
185 MacDonald, Kainoa R. 999 Lee, Isabella 999 Gandham, Rishi K. 166 Dadala, Rhema A.
160 Murray, William T. 999 Lee, Man Ching Cindy 999 Guggilla, Nidhir 303 Fu, Erica W.
904 Murthy, Pallavi 999 Li, Lucian 628 Karunakaran, Simrithaa L. 301 Ho, Truc C.
160 Rowlings, Caitlin E. 999 Peng, Alexander 451 Kim, Andrew H. 185 Iyer, Rishab S.
300 Sariowan, Nathan C. 999 Sima, Andrew F. 000 Liu, Henry 200 Jiang, Joyanna F.
459 Sutilovic, Teodora 301 Mahalingam, Sashwat 204 Kansal, Anusha
RANCHO BERNARDO H. S. 160 Yu, Yuan James M. 162 Nguyen, Amanda V. 301 Krishnan, Sidhart
907 Chaudhari, Sanica 185 Sreekumar, Niyathi 161 Li, Catherine S.
710 Dinov, Victoria K. PROOF SCHOOL 904 Srinivasan, Ragini 160 Lingunis, Chris A.
870 Rashid, Sakina F. 999 Magaro, Annika K. 000 Srivastava, Rushil 300 Lo, Grace
164 Tran, Sandy T. 000 Michael, Alexander M. 185 Yao, Leslie 501 Man, Daniel
542 Zeng, Daniel 700 Sagerman, Aiden F. 160 Zhang, Serena 773 Pang, Ethan
740 Sy, Jonathan J. 999 Zhu, Sophie J. 904 Rafizadeh, Adrian A.
SAN DIEGO MET H. S. 301 Zhang, Oliver 628 Ranjan, Rashi
833 Knight, Rory S. THE HARKER SCHOOL 200 Ransing, Sarah K.
000 Acharyya, Prerana 218 Shao, Ruoxuan J.
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY H. S.
SCRIPPS RANCH H. S. 999 Bahri, Jai 160 Sher, Emily
836 Burnett, Robert A.
160 Choudhary, Ashvin 303 Bajaj, Nakul 836 Somani, Anish
999 Fischer, Sebastian C.
161 Gu, Albert 164 Bourdev, Martin L. 451 Sundaram, Anish
303 Holdridge, Tulasi
999 Lee, Samuel C. 175 Chen, Katelyn 457 Wang, Alexander
000 Paul, Devan K.
300 Liu, Frederick 999 Cheng, Evan 457 Wang, Dennis
303 Sze, Christina J.
455 Mikami, Ryan T. 999 Cheplyansky, Andrew 200 Wang, Tiffany J.
999 Mossuto, Samantha 999 Cherukuri, Rohan 301 Xing, Kathy Y.
303 Ngo, Jeremy
ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE 943 Zhang, Zixiao
PREPARATORY SCHOOL 501 Clark, Quentin T.
160 Patel, Priya D. 999 Dange, Rishi 907 Zhou, Amy Y.
164 Veit, Owen R. 204 Zhou, Isabel
628 Sanigepalli, Shravya 907 Fang, Eric B.
303 Zhong, Dennis
999 Shah, Mahek 250 Fang, Kathy
209 Tu, Jason H. 904 Feng, David R. ABRAHAM LINCOLN H. S.
740 Yu-Swanson, Kyla Q. URBAN SCHOOL 300 Frankis, Finn D. 162 Le, Jonathan
500 Denton, William T.
628 Fu, Lauren
ST. AUGUSTINE H. S. 170 Olin, Loki
553 Fung, Jeffrey E. LYNBROOK H. S.
454 Shang, Zisheng 200 Peterson, Grant R.
999 Gorman, Lila C. 000 Abiram, Maya V.
162 Guo, Ellen K. 000 Acharya, Raka B.
TORREY PINES H. S. SAN GABRIEL 140 Halepete, Mahika 000 Aggarwal, Akhil
833 Catz Johnson, Kaia S. GABRIELINO H. S. 204 Han, Phillip 000 Agrawal, Aashmi
920 Dai, Haozhen 161 Li, Brandon Y. 303 Huang, Alyssa J. 000 Ahn, Sunhoo
906 De Oliveira, Beatriz C. 466 Huynh, Madison B. 000 Anand, Sathvika L.
892 Demenko, Vlada A. SAN JOSE 303 Iyer, Rashmi S. 000 Bi, Julia
904 Freedman, James A. BASIS INDEPENDENT 301 Jain, Sahil 000 Cheng, James
185 Gandhi, Rhea N. SILICON VALLEY 454 Jia, Allison S. 000 Chikkareddy, Anisha
204 Hong, Dennis S. 999 Bachman, Ariel H. 160 Jiang, Jessica Y. 000 Chiu, Jeremy
303 Huang, Jerry Y. 185 Chen, Stephanie 999 Jin, Matthew Y. 000 Doshi, Arnav M.
450 Jung, Allison 360 Chiu, Isabelle 999 Ju, Annabelle 000 Ganesh, Raghav
999 Kim, Daniel Y. 501 Duddi, Khushi 303 Kalsi, Montek S. 904 Guan, Sunny
741 Kosakoff, Jake M. 454 Guliam, Anagha V. 999 Kapadia, Naviya A. 000 Hargunani, Kareena
628 Lu, Jonathan X. 303 He, Amy 301 Kohli, Jatin P. 000 Hargunani, Kirti
000 Mohebbi, Shadi M. 204 Huang, Grace W. 999 Kwan, Jeffrey 000 Jani, Aayushi H.
000 Nalabolu, Sumith R. 710 Khanzode, Mitali V. 999 Lamba, Shyl 000 Kadiyala, Pranav
000 Readey, Elizabeth M. 833 Kim, Diane 303 Lee, Max A. 000 Krishnan, Tanvi
600 Shinkre, Rohan R. 168 Lin, Tianyi 303 Li, Eileen Q. 000 Ku, Kleo U.
162 Zhang, Aidan 300 Lu, Colin Y. 000 Li, Kyle J. 000 Kuo, Shannon
302 Pan, William 303 Liu, Emily Z. 000 Laud, Vibhav A.
WESTVIEW H. S. 870 Pei, Rebecca G. 161 Lu, Carolyn W. 000 Leung, Eunice F.
303 Chen, Richard D. 303 Rangnekar, Priti R. 999 Mohindra, Vani 000 Peng, Larry L.
301 Chowdhuri, Sauhaarda 451 Sharma, Adit 836 Narayanan, Kalyan 000 Pugh, Michelle S.
000 Chu, Nabeen 164 Sharma, Ravit 773 Nori, Rakesh S. 000 Sairam, Amudha
450 Ho, Brandon 185 Shetty, Neha H. 999 Pandey, Sana 185 Satriya, Nathaniel
999 Huang, David Z. 628 Singh, Eesha 204 Pearce, Jack S. 463 Semersky, Natalie L.
999 Jiang, Sabrina 162 Sun, Stephanie J. 741 Rainow, Thomas E. 185 Shao, Madeline W.
000 Jung, Daniel T. 999 Vandalore, Abhinand N. 303 Rajasekharan, Sanjay 000 Shen, Victor
185 Kim, Elise K. 999 Wang, Mingyang 999 Rashingkar, Amla V. 000 Sheth, Kunal S.
301 Liu, Jeffrey Z. 308 Yeh, Alice 303 Ravuri, Chaitanya 999 Shih, Elissa
450 Lu, Jiajun K. 999 Zhang, Ivyla 999 Shah, Sachin N. 833 Shrivastava, Riya
164 Luo, Carina J. 457 Zheng, Anthony H. 303 Sharma, Nikhil 000 Tai, Aaron K.

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WILLOW GLEN H. S. 906 Gao, Jocelyn Y. 303 Kini, Medha U.
California (continued) 450 Paredes-Kao, Jacqueline Y. 710 Hoang, Megan N. 947 Tanaka, Mia C.
450 Lin, Kendra T. 300 Tantry, Vibha
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO 303 Liu, Chris
000 Tung, Joyce CAPISTRANO CONNECTIONS 185 Ravi, Pon Varshini ADRIAN C. WILCOX H. S.
000 Upadhyay, Medha ACADEMY 303 Yi, Emily 162 Kabra, Mahi
454 Mallya, Samir J. 999 Kononova, Sasha
948 Wang, Katherine Z.
DOUGHERTY VALLEY H. S. 185 Lee, Jasmine M.
000 Xu, Cindy
CAPISTRANO VALLEY 501 Baronia, Ruchir 999 Nguyen, Angelyn N.
000 Xue, Aileen
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 168 Bathwal, Meera 999 Yerramaneni, Sanjana
000 Zheng, David
000 Zong, William 000 Sears, Joshua D. 204 Bhattacharya, Esha
185 Bohra, Oce SANTA CLARITA
SAN JUAN HILLS H. S. 501 Chakka, Akash ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS
ARCHBISHOP MITTY H. S. 999 Tonai, Jessica K. 999 Chemparathy, Anugrah G. 628 Chamling, Susan M.
999 Balusu, Shreya S. 999 Deng, Steven Z. 167 Kim, Daniel I.
457 Chaudhary, Aryan ST. MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL 303 Fang, Kevin 454 Vaish, Dhruv
450 Genevriere, Hugo SCHOOL 303 Garg, Anika
303 Hegde, Nihar P. 000 Burke, Logan 450 Gubbala, Sriharsha S. GOLDEN VALLEY H. S.
628 Joseph, Sanjit M. 000 Hughes, Thomas D. 742 Guo, Derek 454 Rozi, Erik
836 Kim, Daniel D. 500 Gupta, Archit
455 Lahiri, Arushi 999 Han, Michael J.
SAN LEANDRO SANTA CRUZ
906 Lee, Jonghyuk 160 Huang, Ethan K.
SAN LEANDRO H. S. HOMESCHOOL
303 Narayanasamy, Bharat 907 Huang, Jennifer Y.
999 Oliva, Emilia M. 301 Watts, Morgan A.
628 Park, Chaelee 303 Jerome, Sherwin J.
772 Park, Joanne J. 948 Jotwani, Asha
904 Park, Joonhee
SAN LORENZO GEORGIANA BRUCE KIRBY
KIPP KING COLLEGIATE H. S. 301 Kadiyala, Avinash PREPARATORY SCHOOL
303 Satyadeep, Aditya 459 Kang, Jun Woo
999 Hall, Gabriella M. 000 Melcher, Margaret S.
600 Wong, Audrey A. 303 Kaparaboyna, Rahul
214 Yan, Jialiang
501 Zhang, Eric 628 Kim, Matthew S.
303 Zhou, Andy SANTA CRUZ H. S.
SAN LUIS OBISPO 999 Kim, Sarah K. 999 Camakaka, Fiona
SAN LUIS OBISPO H. S. 999 Kotadia, Rahi 461 Fairlie, Jessica
NOTRE DAME H. S. 907 New-Schmidt, Addie D. 185 Kotha, Sanjana 303 Gilbert, Elias B.
214 Chang, Annie T. 214 Ku, Erin Y. 948 Liem, Sage L.
999 Luong, Kayla 883 Kuang, Vivian 999 Qing, Nicole R.
SAN MARCOS
185 Ponna, Srija 185 Kulkarni, Shruti
SAN MARCOS H. S.
000 Sridhar, Shruti 168 Kumaravel, Kavin
160 Murray, Haylie N. SANTA MONICA
302 Yu, Katelyn S. 300 Kwon, Brian
904 Yeh, Patrick S. CROSSROADS SCHOOL
500 Lee, Justin 740 Mancia, Celeste
PIEDMONT HILLS H. S. SAN MARINO 999 Ley, Kelsey E.
185 Ding, Charles SAN MARINO H. S. 303 Lin, Timber S. SANTA MONICA H. S.
628 Nguyen, Thomas L. 606 Chen, Nicole 164 Liu, Andi Willow 000 Evans, Rex A.
459 Ramamoorthy, Karthik 559 Chu, Brian 999 Mankude, Akash H. 742 Kerekes, Weston R.
501 Sachdeva, Guneet 200 Deng, Derek 161 Maram, Anish R. 907 Neville, Ireland M.
200 Shan, Grace 740 Hassibi, Kimia 501 Nieva, Matthew C. 843 Sasaki, Matthew W.
162 Ton, Kathy N. 185 Phung, Alain 999 Niu, Anna F. 000 Sasaki, Samuel W.
161 Zu, Jenny 520 Slocum, Ava E. 120 Oak, Puja 950 Stern, Lily P.
162 Sun, Andy J. 451 Ocampo, Isabelle D. 628 Vigman, Michael
PIONEER H. S. 000 Tran, Connie 467 Park, Taeyun 214 Williams, Kiana M.
450 Kwak, Grace J. 607 Wang, Ethan B. 161 Pillai, Achyuth U.
200 Zhu, Jessica J. 161 Rajkumar, Jeevan
SANTA ROSA
741 Ramadas, Sai
SAN MATEO MARIA CARRILLO H. S.
455 Rao, Avinash U.
PRESENTATION H. S. ARAGON H. S. 999 Huang, Michelle J.
303 Rasool, Farhaan
600 Ahlschlager, Alexandra V. 161 Chao, Cindy 162 Moessing, Audrey
999 Sara, Manas
300 Ghosh, Anusha 160 Cismoski, Sabine
302 Sara, Manoj
463 Janapaty, Shloka V. 303 Duan, Daniel CARDINAL NEWMAN H. S.
501 Senthil, Vasanth
459 Klair, Gurmehr 185 Fang, Shirleen 171 Sorensen, Grace C.
000 Sharma, Rohit
628 Maria, Amirtha 303 Guo, Derek
163 Shen, Daniel
454 Nawathe, Ria U. 161 Hao, Albert SANTA ROSA H. S.
628 Singh, Savraj
450 Nawathe, Tanaya U. 628 Hou, Samantha 000 Simon, Emma J.
160 Srinivas, Advika N.
300 Paramesh, Rithu 303 Im, Justin
450 Stiles, Nicole C.
700 Lee, Franklin SARATOGA
450 Subramanian, Shasta
SANTA TERESA H. S. 455 Liu, Janet PROSPECT H. S.
999 Sun, Lauria T.
167 Flores, Isabel R. 166 Tamsil, Josephine 741 Agarwal, Shreya
999 Sun, Nina
501 Pu, Kyle Z. 303 Xu, Kai 214 Thakur, Akshay N.
600 Thummala, Tanvi
843 Wells, Tian M. 162 Yang, Kevin
740 Tran, Noah S.
908 Wang, Chilsea J. SARATOGA H. S.
THE NUEVA SCHOOL 185 Ahmad, Eman A.
SILVER CREEK H. S. 773 Wang, John R.
000 Cavet, Amy S. 999 Bharathi, Bhrugu
743 Malyala, Saketh 950 Wang, Michelle V.
000 Groshong, Tyler L. 710 Bhat, Surbhi
162 Nguyen, Brian T. 303 Wangoo, Abhigya
000 Howard, Noah G. 204 Bian, George C.
628 Yang, Elaine L.
000 Kao, Steven 628 Cao, Leo H.
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY 301 Yang, Janice H.
000 Kim, Chloe J. 450 Chan, Adrienne B.
ACADEMY 628 Zhang, Helen J.
000 Lee, Benjamin H. 771 Chandrasekher, Kiran A.
501 Jaison, Joel 160 Zhong, Ada
000 Patel, Nikhil H. 451 Chen, Allen Y.
300 Janse, Aaron M. 000 Poon, Tyler S. 999 Hong, Jason
303 Tibrewal, Rohan 000 Suresh, Nikhil SANTA ANA 100 Hsu, Bradley
000 Vassallo, Merritt J. FOOTHILL H. S. 303 Jain, Rishi R.
000 Zhou, Austin L. 204 Thayer, Michael K.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. 301 Jiang, Anthony
628 Chiang, Nicholas P. 628 Kalra, Riya K.
820 Dai, Vivian SAN MATEO H. S. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF 300 Kim, Sabrina H.
742 Jeyappragash, Ananya 773 Kreindler, Uri THE ARTS 301 Krishnamurthi, Ujjwal
712 Kanani, Ria H. 161 Lo, Kevin 700 Efthymiou, Cassia M. 946 Kuppam, Ritika
450 Kasmalkar, Mihir M. 740 Munugala, Rahul 160 Hempel, Audrey G. 457 Lee, Christine J.
743 Lam, Allison 451 Zalpuri, Pranav 300 Kallah, Nicholas S. 300 Lee, Victor
451 Lau, Atti W. 450 Laderer, Joseph R. 218 Liang, Connie
171 Liu, Hunter Y. JUNIPERO SERRA H. S. 303 Park, Andrew J. 459 Liang, Nevin
628 Mula, Supriya A. 000 Bryan, Kevin L. 830 Lu, Katherine
742 Qian, Janet Y. 000 Dugoni, Jack L. SANTA BARBARA 000 Luo, Mathew
301 Rao, Anshul V. LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL 941 Ma, Jeffrey
160 Rey, Rebecca M. SAN RAFAEL 741 Cao, Luming 999 Ma, Stephanie J.
459 Tan, Derek TERRA LINDA H. S. 160 Mayya, Armina
870 Tang, Fiona L. 999 Tsai, Jocelyn A. SAN MARCOS H. S. 454 Mididaddi, Arya
467 Thirumalai, Vittal 209 Hess, Connor O. 162 Nakil, Sanmati
628 Tong, Andy N. SAN RAMON 160 Novoselov, Anna K.
908 Tran, Brandon CALIFORNIA H. S. SANTA CLARA 999 Pai, Ronak
907 Vu, Anthony T. 160 Bielicki, Liann C. SANTA CLARA H. S. 712 Patel, Anishi
302 Wang, Jerry X. 900 Cheff, Noah S. 742 Fu, Alexander 169 Phan, Elise V.

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SUN VALLEY VAN NUYS YUBA CITY
California (continued) JOHN FRANCIS HIGH TECH LOS ANGELES RIVER VALLEY H. S.
POLYTECHNIC HIGH CHARTER H. S. 833 Van Valkenburgh, Mackenzie B.
000 Lojo, Nelson K. 000 Garcia, Jonathan T.
450 Rao, Rohan
999 Ravi, Sanjana SUNNYVALE VAN NUYS H. S.
628 Reddy, Aditya K. FREMONT H. S. 162 Hyon, Phillip J.
459 Robinson, Daniel G. 454 Ananda, Keerthana 000 Oh, Nathanael
457 Sankaran, Adhit P. 000 Fu, Valerie Y.
303 Sarnevesht, Ethan S. 000 Gaitonde, Tanvi V. VILLA PARK
870 Shah, Dhruv H. 999 Ke, Ashley VILLA PARK H. S.
301 Sridhar, Nikhil 999 Ke, Elizabeth 000 Baxter, Caitlin N.
454 Sundaram, Sandhya M. 303 Lee, Melissa F. 628 Vu, Ryan D.
999 Tang, Howard L. 000 Vasu, Samhita
999 Tang, Michael W. 457 Wang, Michael
WALNUT
773 Thakur, Nandini S. WALNUT H. S.
999 Wang, Alex THE KING'S ACADEMY 999 Chen, Kevin
742 Wang, Brandon 450 Jacobs, Zoe Y.
162 Jiang, Yaoyue
999 Wang, Elaine Y. 522 Kim, Christian D.
162 Kao, Denise J.
300 Xiao, Albert 712 Wang, Bryan
450 Lin, William
999 Xiao, Christina M. 459 Zhou, Weiqing
999 Lu, Jocelyn J.
303 Xu, Jeffrey 628 Maung, Teresa K.
459 Yoon, Joshua B. SUMMIT SCHOOL DENALI 209 Tran, Chamine M.
200 Zhu, Brian C. 303 Lee, Andrew J. 000 Tsao, Amber H.
628 Wan, Wyan
SCOTTS VALLEY TEMECULA 600 Wu, Evelyn
SCOTTS VALLEY H. S. CHAPARRAL H. S. 454 Xu, Tyler C.
303 Harding, Johnathan A. 999 Casasola, Allison S. 171 Yu, Melody
710 Duron, Giuliana P.
451 Gopalan, Anish WALNUT CREEK
SHERMAN OAKS 303 Liu, Yu
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL BEREAN CHRISTIAN H. S.
123 Lu, Qiyou 185 Utomo, Joey T.
GREAT OAK H. S.
455 Dickinson, James
SIMI VALLEY LAS LOMAS H. S.
162 Eleter, Abdulkarim M.
SANTA SUSANA H. S. 466 Canter, Miriam E.
520 Kowalewski, Halle C.
451 Shah, Mihir H. 904 Casey, Emma
164 Lee, Raymond T.
301 Xiao, Bryson 160 Fisher, Jaden D.
160 Saito, Emika G.
451 Hess, Maximilian J.
630 Micallef, Morgan A.
SIMI VALLEY H. S. TEMPLE CITY 450 Murray, Rhiannon K.
160 Ahn, Christopher T. TEMPLE CITY H. S.
742 Effarah, Christopher J. 450 Ji, Bennett K.
NORTHGATE H. S.
162 Kao, Daniel
954 Jian, Allyson
SOLANA BEACH 303 Lee, Derek C.
303 Thai, Jocelyn H.
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 160 Lee, Jacob H.
164 Walsh, Kyle F.
455 Roede, Nils P. 000 Lin, Jacob
300 Yu, Hanson
000 Ng, Charmaine T.
SOUTH PASADENA WEIMAR
SOUTH PASADENA H. S. THOUSAND OAKS WEIMAR ACADEMY
628 Au, Charis H.
THOUSAND OAKS H. S.
303 Shiu, Joseph H.
454 Liu, Eleanor A.
999 Chung, Andy K.
459 Clark, Samuel P. WEST HILLS
459 Deng, Jessica TORRANCE
BISHOP MONTGOMERY H. S. CHAMINADE COLLEGE
162 Kowal, Evan PREPARATORY SCHOOL
160 Lewis, Ella B. 836 Altshuler, Svetlana M.
185 Cheney, Mary
200 Wang, Peter X. 628 Malham, Joseph
740 Yang, Barnett Z. SOUTH H. S.
600 Zenas, Sarah J. 999 Lee, Allison H.
999 Zhou, Albert W. 161 Lim, Esther J. WESTLAKE VILLAGE
950 Wang, Daniel OAKS CHRISTIAN H. S.
999 Chung, Benjamin J.
STOCKTON 200 Youhanaie, Jordan B.
ASPIRE BENJAMIN HOLT COLLEGE TORRANCE H. S.
PREPARATORY ACADEMY 301 Brar, Jaylem V.
300 Mojica, Matthew V.
WESTLAKE H. S.
870 Guo, Arinna
TRACY
999 Raab, Katrina
BEAR CREEK H. S. MERRILL F. WEST H. S.
907 Ratcliffe, Samuel W.
501 Banks, Adan A. 454 Abdul-Rehman, Hadeel S.
209 Wang, Lauryn O.
454 Kapadne, Akshata H.
209 Xu, Christina
VENTURE ACADEMY
451 Kinney, Sarah M.
UKIAH
DEVELOPING VIRTUE WESTMINSTER
SECONDARY SCHOOL LA QUINTA H. S.
STUDIO CITY 450 Zhu, Bo Han 742 Cao, John
HARVARD - WESTLAKE SCHOOL
459 Ahmad, Diego M. UPLAND WESTMINSTER H. S.
999 Arkow, David B. UPLAND H. S. 162 Pham, Alan Q.
000 Cahill, John C. 450 Tien, Nicholas 607 Phan, Anthony
164 Feng, Anjee
450 Hirooka, Tyra Dane P. WOODLAND HILLS
467 Kaleel, Caroline J. VALENCIA
TRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY EL CAMINO REAL CHARTER H. S.
999 Kiang, Hui Nan Eunice 830 Quintana-Lopez, Estefania
450 Li, Ziyue 168 Kim, Paige T.
121 Salazar, Gregory R. 999 Vu, Andrew
303 Liu, William H.
457 Martell, Monica 741 Yin, Qihui
906 Mathur, Anusha WOODSIDE
710 Nayar, Jaya J. VALENCIA H. S. WOODSIDE H. S.
600 Park, Ryan J. 710 Li, Evie K. 999 Chiu, Emma M.
000 Poon, Landon 300 Song, Ashley M. 550 Raeber, Milena L.
000 Reiter, Dean A. 870 Zeng, Marina
303 Skaggs, Colby YORBA LINDA
833 Sylbert, Nikhila V. WEST RANCH H. S. YORBA LINDA H. S.
161 Van Amburg, Chase T. 160 Factora, Ryan G. 628 Anekwe, Jenee E.
999 Weisman, Lilah K. 160 Pande, Rushikesh Y. 164 Kang, Catherine S.
560 Wu, Lindsay C. 459 Roche, Jackie J. 773 Lindell, Eva K.
000 Yeh, Samantha 450 Shah, Anya 830 Savalia, Elina N.

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