About 1.6 million juniors nationwide took the PSAT last year, and roughly 16,000, or 1 percent, were named semifinalists based on their scores, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
The local semifinalists include students from local public, Catholic and private schools, as well as a home-schooled student.
Semifinalists can apply to earn finalist status and compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. To do so, they must have an outstanding academic record, be recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier performance on the qualifying test.
About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing in February, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.
Here are the local winners, in alphabetical order by high school:
BADIN HIGH SCHOOL
Jacob Waggoner
HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL
Reilly Johnson
KINGS HIGH SCHOOL
Drew Dailey
LAKOTA EAST HIGH SCHOOL
Ryan Ackerman
Alexander Dunaway
Weston Lindner
LAKOTA WEST HIGH SCHOOL
Megan Merk
Jacob Moore
Steven Sweeney
MARS HILL ACADEMY
Amy Davis
MASON HIGH SCHOOL
Sudarsana Addepalli
Dariah Ansari
Saagar Chokshi
Lauren Elliott
Anna Estes
Alexander Gao
Wei Gao
Lauren Han
Thomas Hayama
Jeffrey Huang
Natalee Jobert
Arjan Kalra
Preetham Kastury
Mujtaba Khalid
Suraj Komatineni
Sydnie Kong
Ryan Kouche
James Krueger
Jack Li
Terry Luo
Rishi Mehta
Connie Mi
Olivia Min
Rishav Mukherjee
Atneya Nair
Ishani Paul
Ranjani Ramasubramanian
Rahul Ramesh
David Sun
Suraj Suresh
Noah Trenaman
Jenny Wan
Alex Wang
Hengyi Wang
Linda Wang
Ryan Winterhalter
Joyce Wu
Catherine Xu
Peter Zhu
MONROE
Rachel Ploeger
ROYALMONT ACADEMY
Matthew Conner
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