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National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist List Released
Dozens of students from Palo Alto made the cut in the prestigious scholarship competition.
The list of semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation was released last week; students on that list who attend Castilleja School, and Gunn and Palo Alto high schools are listed below.
There are about 16,000 semifinalists, and the program expects about 15,000 of the students to advance to the finalist level, which will be announced in February.
More than half of the finalists will go on to compete for a Merit Scholar title and portion of the National Merit Scholarship worth more than $32 million.
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More than 22,000 high schools nationwide and about 1.5 million juniors entered the 2013 competition, which awards the honors based on “exceptional academic ability”, and “potential for success in rigorous college studies” the organization said in a statement.
Schools and student names are listed in alphabetical order:
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Dean, Victoria L.
Gropper, Hannah R.
Holston, Sara J.
Jue, Kylie A.
Lee, Edina Y.
Levin, Sophia
Bhadkamkar, Devyani
Bhansali, Rohil
Cheng, Edward
Grossman, Tatiana J.
Hinson, Rosemary
Huang, Peter
Huang, Roya E.
Huang, Sarah
Imesheva, Valeriya
Jacobsen, Nicole A.
Jiang, Helen
Kim, Ethan
Kim, Jesse
Lee, Hye Y.
Li, Alice W.
Li, Christine S.
Lin, Cindy S.
Miner, Spencer G.
Qin, Yi
Rajan, Anupama
Redfield, Emily H.
Shiao, Rani
Sommer, Anne
Steinberg, Benjamin M.
Tao, Laura
Townsend, Laura L.
Tsai, Lillian Y.
Waliman, Matthew
Wu, Megan
Yan, Elizabeth M.
Yu, George
Bourbonnais, Cecile S.
Cane, Helen J.
Carlson, Spencer E.
Chang, Christine
Chen, Brian W.
Cho, Hae-Lin
Chum, Aaron
Cordova, Savannah J.
Datta, Esha
Du, Victor
Dulik, Charles N.
Gallagher, Hanako
Ge, Francis M.
Ghadiyaram, Srikesava
Haghdoost, Yasna
Huang, Hilda P.
Ji, Wilbur J.
Kim, John J.
Kim, Kiho
Ku, Ursula
Lee, Robert
Lin, Benjamin C.
Ling, Jeffrey R.
Moraes-Liu, Juliana R.
Pinsker, Elena C.
Poore, Henry A.
Rosenthal, Emily D.
Shorin, Grant
Situ, Tran
Song, Soo Hyun
Tam, Jessica
Wang, Evelyn
Wang, Oliver S.
Wen, Melissa L.
Yan, Elisabeth S.
Yan, Jeffrey
Yang, Alexander
Zhang, Justin C.
Zheng, Allen
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