PUSD has 71 National Merit finalists

This year, the Poway Unified School District has 71 high school students who are National Merit Scholarship finalists.

The National Merit Scholarship program is an academic scholarship administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Each finalist submits a detailed scholarship application, which includes essays and information about extracurricular achievement, awards, and leadership positions.

Finalists must also have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a school official and earn SAT scores that confirm their qualifying PSAT test performance.

A select number of students will be chosen to receive the prestigious National Merit Scholarship.

Del Norte High School

Kevin An, Arman Arbab, Brian Casey, Ahana Chakraborty, Tina Chen, Saeed Ghassemzadeh, Jane Huang, Lillian Huang, Lindsey Kang, Thomas Kim, Aishwarya Kudrimoti, Grace Li, Joanna Liu, Vincent Ngo, Alexander Ramsayer, Ellen Shea, Joe Sun, Gokul Swamy, Revati Thatte, Nicholas Wong, Carolyn Wu, Yuqing Yang, Liming Zheng, Andrew Zhou, Cassie Zhu

Mt. Carmel High School

Sam W. Hodges, Victoria J. Moran, Bharat Pradeep, Minh-Khoa Hung Tran, Amy A. Tu

Poway High School

Jacob Prince

Rancho Bernardo High School

Sachin Betrabet, Lynn Bi, Tristan Caparas, Kevin Hu, Jiashen Lu, Isabella Ortiz, Amir Rezvani, Nicholas Rui, Sydney Yang, Qing Lan Zhao

Westview High School

Arvin Bhattacharya, Tyler Chang, Jennifer Chen, Jooeun Cho, Seungeun Cho, Sarah Chou, Catherine Fan, Andrew Fratian, Helen Jin, Jason Kang, Ozair Khan, Franklin Kong, Wanfei Kwan, Rae Lan, Ha Eun Lee, Justin Li, Maia Li, Emily Lin, Rebecca Liu, Mark Nasielski, Hannah Oikawa, Bansi Parekh, Steven Pineda, Edward Qiao, Robert Quitt, Kevin Sun, Nathan Tran, Henry Xu, Brandon Zhang, Jennifer Zhuang