Forty students at Interlake High School, a public school in Bellevue, are National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists, more than any other high school in Washington state.
The school had nearly 50 semifinalists last year, also making it the top school in the state. The private Lakeside School, in North Seattle, had the second highest this year, with 27.
The state’s semifinalists join roughly 16,000 other students nationwide who had the highest scores on the 2020 PSAT, a standardized test taken by high school juniors that helps qualify them for the award.
About 95% of semifinalists nationwide are expected to be named finalists in February; of those, about 7,500 will go on to receive scholarships that together total about $30 million. To become a finalist, students must submit academic, extracurricular, employment and other information.
The names of semifinalists were released this month. Here is who is on Washington’s list:
ANACORTES
Anacortes H.S.: Harper, Tuscan J.
ARLINGTON
Arlington H.S. Career Center: Dahlgren, Braden R.; Kim, Sheamin
AUBURN
Auburn Riverside H.S.: Ali, Sarnika; Brandt, Jack R.; Bui, Kaitlyn E.; Harris, Zoe A.; Kye, Benjamin KyungSun
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
Bainbridge H.S.: Bang-Knudsen, Peter; King, Lucy; Memke, Elana M.; Rickert, Nash B.; Schroer, Lila R.; Tinker, Jack R.
Eagle Harbor H.S.: Cromwell, Lyra E.
BELLEVUE
Bellevue H.S.: Brumley, Madeline A.; Chen, Eileen H.; Chen, Sarah M.; Fang, Stella S.; He, Eric S.; Hong, Seeun; Kim, Ashley Y.; Lin, Forest Z.; Poon, Alice; Rudolph, Jameson L.; Silver, Trudy P.; Wang, William K.
Home school: Wall, Avery S.
Interlake H.S.: Agrawal, Tejus; Bae, Hayun; Bansal, Ishan; Donner, Jake D.; Ellis, Evelyn X.; Fang, Sophia; Feng, Helena; Hajian, Salma; Huang, Hannah; Jiang, Evelyn R.; Joy, Keya A.; Kamkolkar, Rasan; Kothakota, Gnapika; Lee, Andrew; Lee, Ryan H.; Li, Katherine M.; Li, Michael; Mukhara, Priyanka; Nidyanandh, Shwetha; Pal, Govindcharan; Patel, Keya; Raghavan, Janani N.; Roberts, Theodore; Shanthanu, Rohan Simon; Shen, Ethan; Sinha, Ishan S.; Song, Jeffrey; Su, Richard R.; Thiru, Ved; Verma, Ansh; Wang, Melody; Wu, Lucas H.; Xu, Michael; Xu, Muyang; Yadav, Tanush; Yen, Mathew G.; Yin, Serena P.; Zhang, Kevin M.; Zheng, Nicole; Zhi, Alicia C.
International School: Feng, Rachel Z.; Massey, Jessica F.; Rodgers, Henry K.; Soderquist, Elle E.
Newport H.S.: Bai, Ethan Y.; Bulusu, Sriya; Chang, Janet M.; Dhananjay, Ananth R.; Gwak, Jeenah D.; Huang, Lillian; Karmali, Ayla E.; Kim, Ellen; Li, Katrina; Li, Maggie K.; Meyer, Armand; Morishita, Akira D.; Ni, Jenny J.; Sarabosing, Natalie G.; Tampa, Ethan D.; Venkatesh, Arthi; Xian, Chelsea D.; Zhang, Ryan Y.; Zhang, Yaqi; Zhu, Caroline L.
Sammamish H.S.: Chou, Josh; Jung, Joshua S.; Stedman, Jeffrey A.; Yeung, Renee
BELLINGHAM
Bellingham H.S.: Skoczen, Rikki N.; Wines, Catherine A; Young, Ariel R.; Zerbes, Kylie M.
Sehome H.S.: Guo, Linda
BOTHELL
Bothell H.S.: Hendrickson, Nathan A.; Neal, Kylie N.
North Creek H.S.: Tran, Spencer J.
CAMAS
Camas H.S.: Wang, Sunny S.
Union H.S.: Mintz, Sean M.; Morrill, Ryan A.
COWICHE
Highland H.S.: Jensen, Naomi
DES MOINES
Mount Rainier H.S.: Short, Jake L.
EDMONDS
Edmonds-Woodway H.S.: Geil, Lillian H.
EVERETT
Everett H.S.: Weir, Audrey A.
Home school: Honsinger, Margaret G.
ISSAQUAH
Issaquah H.S.: Batra, Arshia; Chugh, Pravir; Delgadillo, Joshua I.; Fulford, Hunter E.; Garg, Samvit; Jung, Jeewon; Lee, Johnny; Lee, Johnny R.; Santiago, Ajay; Vats, Kabir
KENMORE
Inglemoor H.S.: Levenkova, Daria; Li, Katie; Pletosu, Gabriela
KINGSTON
Kingston H.S.: Langland, Alexander P.
KIRKLAND
Eastside Preparatory School: Helbling, Derin G.; Pylypenko, Taras; Shakes, Bohan T.; Tardif, Egan C.; Turkarslan, Aybala G.; Zeng, Xiaoyi
International Community School: Allen, Kaylee L.; Ayad, Hoda; Bridge, Kristian S.; Dettweiler, Sophia I.; Herri, Jasmine T.; Lee, Julia G.; Nguyen, Anna; Yu, Benjamin T.
Juanita H.S.: Ashok, Dhruv; Dubinsky, Ron; Liu, Esther M.; Maykov, Ivan; Pandit, Anaya
Lake Washington H.S.: Kaikkonen, Helena A.; Strathy, Maria E.
LACEY
Pope John Paul II H.S.: Kondrat, Clare V.
River Ridge H.S.: Williamson, Mia K.
LYNDEN
Lynden Christian School: Bouma, Judah J.
MAPLE VALLEY
Tahoma H.S.: Della Santina, Jonathan D.; Grayson, Jesse D.; Lisy, Cara E.
MERCER ISLAND
Mercer Island H.S.: Agarwal, Arin; Burkey, Jasper R.; Cotter, Kelly J.; Gottesman, Gabriel B.; Huang, Ryan; Kinder, Benjamin J.; Klein, Aidan P.; Krishnaswamy, Divya; McSherry, Declan L.; Paek, Nathan J.; Palermo, Luca; Yang, Jingyi; Zhao, Jason Z.
MILL CREEK
Henry M. Jackson H.S.: Cho, Ryan; Fu, Alan Y.; Hubbard, Kiran E.
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE
Mountlake Terrace H.S.: Rinehimer, Brooke K.
MUKILTEO
Kamiak H.S.: Choi, Chris W.; Deshmukh, Chaitna N.; Lee, Aaron; Lee, Edward H.; Lee, John S.; Nguyen, Angelique; Nguyenphuoc, Lilian Q; Park, Claire J.
NINE MILE FALLS
Lakeside H.S.: Schmitt, Tryston P.
NORTH LAKEWOOD
Lakewood H.S.: Oos, Kiana C.
OLYMPIA
Olympia H.S.: Basanich, Henry F.; Ong, Leonard Gabriel T.; Ponomarev, Antony N.; Rachita, Andrea G.
PASCO
Pasco H.S.: Valdez, Christina O.
PORT ANGELES
Port Angeles H.S.: Carroll, Olivia D.
PORT ORCHARD
South Kitsap H.S.: Hickle, Emilia I.
PORT TOWNSEND
Port Townsend H.S.: Dow, Maya I.; Krupa, Lochlan S.
POULSBO
North Kitsap H.S.: Beers, Isaac K.
PULLMAN
Pullman H.S.: Brock, Sage; Lee, Connor; Venkatasubramanian, Subashree
PUYALLUP
Puyallup H.S.: Baker, Darya M.; Mercer, Miles E.; Perez, Tyson D.; Thompson, Maren B.
REDMOND
The Overlake School: Akulov, Egor; Chaudhuri, Anish; Chen, Yiwei; Esibov, Nicole A.; Feller, Kai W.; Ganesh, Rohan; Hagiu, Ana I.; Harris, James; Lin, Melissa Y.; Rasmussen, Annika S.; Slater, John H.; Steedly, Sophie M.
Redmond H.S.: Adelman, Maya W.; Bhatia, Sayan; Chittamuri, Saidhruv; Jain, Krish; Jaisalmeria, Ronak; Kennedy, Conor; Kulkarni, Siya; Letca, Ana A.; Lopez-Munoz, Carmen; Lu, Conan; Miller, Jason; Odle, Brianna J.; Pal, Anish M.; Sateesh, Sahana; Sharma, Sameeksha; Srinivasan, Dhruv K.; Su, Cindy X.; Wang, Christopher M.; Wang, Everett W.; Wang, Maximilian Y.; Wu, Andrea Y.; Zhou, Eric; Zhu, David S.
Nikola Tesla Stem H.S.: Chan, Ryan W.; Dhulipalla, Saketh; Dutt, Shivank; Hu, Jennifer; Iyer, Rohan; Li, Evan F.; Li, Yuchen; Liu, Julia Z.; Pai, Gavin R.; Potra, Alexander; Prasad, Aaditya V.; Saveliev, Pauline; Soh, Maxwell J.; Yu, Catherine
RENTON
Liberty H.S.: Addanki, Sanjana; Doan, Ethan J.; Maresh, McKenzie R.; Maresh, Rose M.; Reamy, Ryan F.; Rubenstein, Jacob A.; Sherwood, Serena R.
RICHLAND
Hanford H.S.: Demeyer, Maia E.
SAMMAMISH
Eastlake H.S.: Arugunta, Anika; Begur, Anjana; Bondre, Abhimanyu R.; Dalia, Aadi S.; Goel, Medhy; Huang, Ryan; Kapur, Jaeden D.; Mittal, Preksha; Murugan, Natasha S.; Nog, Suhani; Rundle, Hayden J.; Shankar, Sheshank; Tokareva, Kseniya; Ye, Christine X.
Eastside Catholic H.S.: Lewis, Addison M.
Skyline H.S.: Agarwal, Sonali; Anand, Dharshini V.; Brandes, Noah M.; Chen, Jerry; Chen, Jeslyn; Epstein, Benjamin R.; Guo, Anthony Y.; Ilavelan, Vishva; Johar, Mudit; Khatwa, Serena J.; Lawrence, Zachary C.; Li, Ellen Y.; Modi, Shivani V.; Narayanan, Shweta R.; Rajaram, Aishwarya; Ravivarma, Vithul; Shi, Ethan; Thomas, Ruben C.; Wu, Cathy
SEATTLE
The Bush School: Harr, Carolina C.
Garfield H.S.: Laporte, Paul E.; Nakamoto, Andrew S.; Pearson, Anders M.; Waite, Elijah W.
Holy Names Academy: Schliebner, Sofia; Summers, Katherine; Telzrow, Adelaide; Zang, Zoe
Home school: Bioren, Thomas R.
Ingraham H.S.: Certain, Malcolm A.
Lakeside School: Balaji, Vikram; Baxter, William V.; Bezos, Henry C.; Butler, Eric L.; Chamberlin, Lorenzo; Chong, Julian; Du, Ethan J.; Flaggert, James C.; Ganapathy, Tanvi L.; Hollander, Ai-Li T.; Hou, Lucas N.; Kao, Raymond M.; Kurlander, Daniel A.; Kwiecinski, Weronika D.; Li, Eric W.; Liu, Katie J.; Malakapalli, Merwan A.; Markus, Jacob R.; Martial, Elissa J.; Nelson, Michael J.; Singh, Aditya; Suryadevara, Ananya K.; Theobald, Gracelyn E.; Vlahos Sten, Nicholas Q.; Xu, Dylan; Yeend, Hudson W.; Zhou, Aidan J.
Lincoln H.S.: Gharib, Arya R.; Lee, Lillian K.; Pallais-Aks, Sebastian D.
Roosevelt H.S.: Archer, Claire J.; Baptista-Allan, Carter P.; Harrington, Claire; Lai, Alec; Ohtake, Sophia L.; Peng, Charlotte R.; Pettis, Anna K.
Seattle Preparatory School: Elliott, Quinn U.; Mitchke, Wyatt D.; Sanches, Marcus T.; Tessin, Dylan C.
Transition School and Early Entrance Program: Agrawal, Ayush; Li, Annabella H.; Mao, Di
SHORELINE
Shorecrest H.S.: Davis, Beckham; Wassink, Rohan M.
Shorewood H.S.: Johnson, Kyla A.; Mamiya, Yubi
SILVERDALE
Central Kitsap H.S.: Bai, Angela; Drummond, Kal-El W.; Gutierrez, Victor; Huey, Reece H.; Putaansuu, William J.; Schweitzer, Cara M.
SNOQUALMIE
Mount Si H.S.: Shaik, Faris
SPOKANE
Gonzaga Preparatory School: Saint James, Madeleine R.
Lewis and Clark H.S.: North, Zoe M.; Quigley, John W.
North Central H.S.: Popescu, Alexander M.
Shadle Park H.S.: Choo, James R. H.
St. George’s School: Ravasia, Tariq
SPOKANE VALLEY
University H.S.: Danielson, Hunter M.
Valley Christian School: Simonds, Cameron C.
TACOMA
Home school: Epstein, Mark Benjamin
Stadium H.S.: Hall, Caroline; Thomas, Anna R.; Ye, Caitlyn N.
Tacoma Science and Math Institute: Feeney, Hayden B.
Charles Wright Academy: Estrada, Patricia C.; Kregenow, Reed S.; Noh, Andrew J.
Annie Wright School: Kim, Alex
TUKWILA
Raisbeck Aviation H.S.: Chang, Aaron M.
VANCOUVER
Columbia River H.S.: Kolze, Carla R.
Evergreen H.S.: Zalubil, Zachary Z.
Mountain View H.S.: Armstrong, Taylor E.; Chang, Spencer K.; Le, Noah Q.; Xue, Justin J.
Skyview H.S.: Higgs, Van
VASHON
Vashon Island H.S.: Hawkins, Alyssa N.
WALLA WALLA
De Sales Catholic School: Balof, Mary Elizabeth
Walla Walla H.S.: Adams, Lauren E.
WENATCHEE
Wenatchee H.S.: Chen, Leonardo X.; Musacchi, Lucia