Thirty-two Wayzata High School students have been named semifinalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program.
High school juniors entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 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 2024 Wayzata High School National Merit Semifinalists:
Aparna Akathoottuparambil* Nithin Mendu*
Laasya Aki* Rhea Menon
William Barrett Cale Myers*
Alexander Brown* Nishadh Naik
Mingyan Ge Tasha Piyabongkarn
Dhruv Gupta Siddharth Salapaka
Evan Hsieh* Devang Sharma
Sancia Jerold Wilson* Nitish Shirodkar*
Anuj Kakkad Nandhini Sridhar
Rushil Khadikar Viraj Taneja
Alexis Kim Rachel Torniainen
Nora Lorentz Snigdha Tungtur
Weili Lu Aleena Varghese
Felicia Luo* Brittany Wang
Makayla Ma Darrel Zhao
Tanisha Mandal
Ishaan Mehta
*Not included in group photo