Leander ISD Superintendent Bruce Gearing, Ed.D., announced that 31 LISD students are distinguished as Semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program based on their outstanding performances on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
“I commend these outstanding students for seizing the opportunity to excel among their peers from across the country,” Gearing said. “It is a credit to them, their families and their dedicated teachers that they are in such elite company, and I join our LISD community in congratulating them for their achievements.”
The National Merit Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. National Merit Semifinalists, who represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, include the highest-scoring entrants in each state. These academically talented high school seniors will compete for scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring.
National Merit Semifinalists are as follows:
Cedar Park High School
Collin Borenstein
Kellen Cao
Thomas Wu
Leander High School
Abigail Beman
Athvait Manikantan
Daniel Shen
Rouse High School
Medha Reddy
Vandegrift High School
Forrest Broe
Angelica Burtscher
Myna Chintapalli
Nathan Cong
Anaika Eledath
Sean Gray
Sarthak Gupta
Ian Howell
Karis Hu
Nicole Imming
Kruthik Kalidas
Andrew McAlinden
Clayton Moore
Grace Park
Svanik Sharma
Michael Tao
Daniel Warren
Hillary Xu
Vista Ridge High School
Evan Miller
Ramya Nambala
Ankush Rao
Praneeth Sajja
Meghna Vergis
Evan Wolfe
