On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 semi-finalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholaships worth $30 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
More information regarding the National Merit Scholarship Program can be found here.
Congratulations to the following DASD STEM Academy students that were named as Semi-Finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Competition.
Irene A. Abraham
Kushi Amara
Samrithaa Balakrishnan
Sarah R. Crawford
Shreesh Dassarkar
Arnav Dhingra
Mohith Gollapalli
Olivia A. Gulish
Nathan S. Jiang
Alice C. Liu
Ajay S. Macherla
Troy M. Ramiscal
Nandita C. Reddy
Siddhant Sharma
Shannon Shih
Pranay Sivaraju
Manuel M. Thomas
Maria A. Thomas
Aparna Vagvala
Dev Vidya Jijilal
Rohit Vipperla
Sophia Wu
Brandon Z. Ye
