82 LWSD students named National Merit Semifinalists

Redmond, Wash. – Eighty-two Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists on Wednesday, September 10.

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. More than 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. Approximately half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 6,930 National Merit Scholarships, worth nearly $26 million.

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest-scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Lake Washington School District National Merit Semifinalists*

Eastlake High School

• Saranya Agrawal
• Devi Anand
• Bradshaw Asher
• Tavas Bharadwaj
• Niharika Dinesh
• Gary Fu
• Aishwarya Kota
• Vihitha Kumar
• Dhruv Kurup
• Jade Lam
• Ryan Li
• Brooke Lin
• Angelina Lu
• Sunehri Nog
• Dana Satimova
• Medha Singitham
• Srivatsa Sistla
• Karthik Sivakumar
• Zenith Tang
• Aarush Thadani
• Pranav Tripathi
• Rohit Venkatesan
• Madhoha Yellamareddygari
• Siddharth Yenamandra
• Kevin Yu
• Yuanrui Zhao

International Community School

• Deniz Caglar
• Daniel Zhang

Juanita High School

• Deepali Honavalli

Lake Washington High School

• Eunjae Jeon
• Elias Lafornara
• Vaughn Morton
• Arron Randhawa
• Vi Twyman

Redmond High School

• Sihan Chen
• Theodore Chen
• Ameera Galeeb
• Sophia Hsu
• Ann Joby
• Sirjana Kaur
• Erin Kaye
• Aditya Kumar
• Isabella Li
• Ali Macky
• Rohan Malhi
• Swetha Mandaleeka
• Dhruv Mittal
• Anahadh Multani
• Siri Mutalik Desai
• Pranith Nagarajan
• Anya Nanda
• Kimberly Ong
• Hiya Pandey
• Adarsh Prasad
• Barrett Rugge
• Shreya Sharma
• Arnav Shrestha
• Suhani Singh
• Darshika Vaideeswaran
• Baohui Wang
• Julia Wen
• Catherine Xie
• Ella Xu
• Grace Zhang

Nikola Tesla STEM High School

• Ryan Chhabra
• Kaushal Dabbiru
• Inesh Dey
• Aakash K. Ghosh
• Anika Joshi
• Arnav Mittal
• Naman V. Mutalik Desai
• Mehuli Nath
• Neil Parikh
• Neil Rawal
• Tanmay S. Sarvepalli
• Sathkrith Segu
• Thea K. Sima
• Madeleine Vanderheiden
• Kedar Venkatachalam
• Leo Wang
• Sarah Youn
• Sophie Zhao

* Note: Photos available on request.

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About Lake Washington: Lake Washington School District is a high-performing public school district serving Kirkland Redmond and Sammamish Washington. It is the second largest district in the state of Washington with over 30,000 students in 55 schools.