32 Wayzata High School students have been named semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program.

High school juniors entered the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of 16,000 Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. About 15,000 of these semifinalists are expected to advance to the finalist level in February. National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from the group of finalists beginning in April.

Congratulations to the following 2026 Wayzata High School National Merit Semifinalists:

Mohan Atkuri
Rahul Billakanti
Noah Carpenter
Felix Cheng
Surjosnato Dhar
James Eyres
Jasper Fang
Dylan Kim
Snigdah Kothareddy
Sneha Kundu
Daniel Kwon
Angela Liang
Sophie Litwak
Andres Lopez Gonzalez
Akshath Mahesh
Ria Mehta
Aaratrika Mondal
Aditya Nair
Jiwoo Park
Kevin Qiu
Sanjeev Ratnam
Pranav Salapaka
Chloe Sergeant
Tvisha Talwar
Tanush Thimmasani
Selina Wang
Warren Wang
Lilian Woyak
Luyao Yang
Rachel Yin
Yuklam Zhang
Aaron Zou