National Merit Scholarship Corporation Announces Semifinalists in 2025 Program

On September 11th, National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced the names of the nationwide pool of 16,000 high school juniors who have earned Semifinalist standing in the 2025 competition for National Merit Scholarship Program awards, and many local Westwood area students are among the group.

Local Semifinalists are (listed by town and high school):

Westwood

Westwood High School: Grace Barnett, Ivan Cai, Isaac Chan, Jefferson Ji, Rayaan Padaria

Dedham

Noble and Greenough School: Oliver Burstein, Sasha Klevens, Allision Park, Kaitlyn Shi, Alexander Stein, and Shelley Tang

Dover

Dover-Sherborn High School: Karn Chutinan, Anika Gupta, and Stacey Liu

Milton

Milton Academy: Devan Agrawl, Jason Louie, Ryan Tsz Ngai Pang, Brady Payne, Eliana Soiffer, Abhiram Tejomurtula, Lucas Westphal

Needham

Needham High School: Samuel Cooperman, Benjamin Fogler, Ryan McCarthy, Lilly Meyi, Ananya Sharma, Arlan Zbarsky

Sharon

Sharon High School: Charlotte Y. Choi, Sophie Hu, Omar Kannachankudy, Colin H. Plumridge, Rohith Raghavan, Ankita Varigonda, Brendon J. Wen, Ilana S. Wulf, Chole E. Zabounidis

Wellesley

Dana Hall School: Hanyue Chen, Arya H. Lal

Wellesley High School: Emily Bannon, Lucas Kim, Alexis Lee, Andrew O'Donovan, Anson Richman, Joss Richman, Michelle Wang, Andrew Yang

West Roxbury

Roxbury Latin School: Darian Estrada, Levi Harrison, Francis-Xavier Martin, Krishantha Muniappan, Brendan Reichard, Raj Saha, Daniel Stepanyan

National Merit Finalists are selected for their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. They will be selected from the pool of Semifinalists, and about 95 percent of Semifinalists are expected to advance to become Finalists.

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