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SEMIFINALISTS IN THE 2018

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
September 13, 2017 Announcement

Contact: Eileen Artemakis or Matthew Budreau Phone: (847) 866-5100

Public Information Email: mediainfo@nmerit.net
Website: www.nationalmerit.org

Advance: For release on Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Note to editors: Semifinalists in your state are listed alphabetically by city and
high school following this press release.
This material is prepared solely for news media to announce the names of
Semifinalists; its use for any other purpose is prohibited.

Caution: Using numbers of Semifinalists to compare high schools, educational systems, or

states will result in erroneous conclusions. The National Merit Scholarship Program honors
individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous
college studies. The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within a
school, system, or state. For more information about the competition, please visit NMSCs website
at www.nationalmerit.org.

Semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program

(Evanston, Illinois) Today officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC)

announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 63rd 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 Scholarships worth more than $32
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 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half
of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was

established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 420 business
organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSCs goals of honoring the nations
scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Steps in the 2018 Competition

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test (PSAT/NMSQT ), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool
of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-
scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the states
percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and his or her high school must submit a detailed
scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalists academic record,
participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment,
and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record through-
out high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn
SAT scores that confirm the students earlier performance on the qualifying test.

From the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists, about 15,000 are expected to advance
to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit
Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. Merit Scholar designees are
selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college
studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
National Merit Scholarships
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2018.
Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be
awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship
awards will be provided by approximately 230 corporations and business organizations for
Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantors employees or residents
of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 190 colleges and
universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards
for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2018 will be announced in four nationwide news
releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more
than 330,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

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National Merit Scholarship Corporation. PSAT/NMSQT is a registered trademark of National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the College Board.
SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board.
Semifinalists: 2018 National
Merit Scholarship Program
TEXAS
ABILENE
ABILENE H. S.
700 Pigott, Eliana M.
AUSTIN
ADDISON
GREENHILL SCHOOL
185 Bhargava, Sudeep S.
451 Frymire, Alexandra
550 Harris, Caroline A.
999 Krakow, Eli A.
999 Puckett, Chelsea
185 Puckett, Erin M.
605 Ravi, Swati
990 Shiau, Victoria
628 Wang, Grant K.
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
161 Lau, Allison K.
ALEDO
ALEDO H. S.
450 Legvold, Tanner
ALLEN
ALLEN H. S.
450 Alappat, Joe C.
000 Anand, Rahul
843 Ardoin, James G.
451 Catlett, Victoria E.
740 Chawla, Raghav
904 Chen, Catherine
200 Chen, Tong
160 Cheng, Samantha L.
459 Corbita, Danica K.
202 Golkonda, Sahithi
459 Gomez-Garcia, Miguel
455 Hoyt, Kylie N.
302 King, Ryan R.
999 Li, Christopher F.
627 Li, Mary
202 O'Brien, John P.
619 Pedison, Claire E.
907 Primrose, Parker M.
164 Raja, Sanjeev V.
892 Taylor, Chase R.
628 Vempati, Anurag
LOVEJOY H. S.
946 Dennis, Grant
522 Johnson, Noah T.
628 Laboret, Bretton
907 Parker, Clay T.
450 Su, Brandon L.
AMARILLO
AMARILLO H. S.
700 Boyce, William C.
160 McKay, Luke E.
628 Tirumala, Sahithi L.
ARGYLE
ARGYLE H. S.
168 Hennes, Andrew D.
901 Miller, Miranda A.
LIBERTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
250 Jolley, Peyton O.
ARLINGTON
ARLINGTON H. S.
907 James, Isaac W.
LAMAR H. S.
628 Huang, Wei-Chen
160 Yang, Karen M.
MANSFIELD SUMMIT H. S.
121 Weaver, Jacob A.
JAMES W. MARTIN H. S.
302 Birchall-Roman, Calvin T.
450 Chin, Nicholas R.
450 Moore, Brock A.
628 Qiu, Abram
628 Swinney, Brandon T.
OAKRIDGE SCHOOL
628 Luong, Adrian E.
454 Solano, Funmilola A.
W. CHARLES AKINS H. S.
946 Byrd, Truman S.
L. C. ANDERSON H. S.
252 Allen, Riley E.
454 Ard, Adam M.
946 Francis, Vivian E.
166 Howlett, Carina P.
454 Kwon, Jennifer S.
843 Seddon-Stettler, Sadie
456 Sullivan, Casey J.
JAMES BOWIE H. S.
905 Baltoi, Daniel S.
200 Cottle, Lindsey E.
454 David, Tyler D.
455 Martin, Clara T.
BRENTWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
843 Helyer, Benjamin K.
HOMESCHOOL
303 Doupnik, Brian C.
907 Elliott, Caelan A.
630 Galko, Isabelle M.
467 Gaughan, Susan R.
303 Goh, Timothy M.
843 Gray, Cameron B.
LAKE TRAVIS H. S.
682 Ali, Sabah A.
907 Margiotta, Evan R.
870 Waugh, Caitlin
LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCE
ACADEMY H. S.
303 Ahuja, Ojas K.
451 Alvis, Samuel A.
175 Andrews, Vada M.
454 Aung, Shane T.
451 Ballal, Shubhanga
742 Ben-Avi, Noam
300 Black, Kevin A.
907 Blaha, Isabelle S.
200 Blankenship, Jackson M.
990 Bogard, Clara R.
161 Brown, Tatum L.
303 Coleman, Russell B.
556 Coulbury, Calvin W.
950 Czarnecki, Zoe E.
302 Dhir, Abhimanyu
628 Dulaney, Aidan S.
999 Hanser-Young, Noah R.
204 Hao, Vincent M.
628 Katta, Anish R.
303 Le, Megan K.
628 Lee, Edward M.
999 Lee, Sage S.
712 Lindell, Hattie A.
164 McGauley, Ryan A.
204 Nannapaneni, Jacob B.
185 Nasi, Ella K.
166 Nichols, Eleanor F.
870 Penick, Julia W.
999 Poterek, Anna H.
162 Read, Dylan M.
451 Sangana, Neha
999 Schmeil, James C.
467 Stone, Isaac B.
455 Taleff, Michael T.
830 Tran, Harrison K.
742 Wiese, Lia B.
522 Windsor, Ellie M.
459 Zhao, Mingxuan
770 Zhou, Ricky Z.
MC CALLUM H. S.
300 Guequierre, Sierra J.
950 Kennedy, Pablo F.
142 Leuba Jones, Lydia
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453
Rowan, Aubrey I.
Stewart, Amon A.
MC NEIL H. S.
303 Fang, Jaden Y.
628 Gadgil, Bela P.
459 Golla, Ethan M.
451 Krishnamurthy, Vignesh
628 Lee, Sarah J.
303 Lehman, Gilbert T.
303 Majumdar, Arka
457 Mao, Franklin C.
160 Nguyen, Anthony Q.
628 Ramachandra, Anjana S.
600 Schnurer, Cameron H.
682 Shaw, Evie
600 Son, Sumin
000 Tkacz, Emma P.
600 Ton, Vinh T.
N. Y. O. S. CHARTER SCHOOL
450 Rundquist, Arik J.
PREMIER H. S. OF NORTH AUSTIN
720 Fisher, Sarah G.
REGENTS SCHOOL
833 Cox, Kyle P.
450 Froehlich, Rodney J.
450 Larkam, Andrew P.
ANN RICHARDS SCHOOL FOR
YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS
167 Dalehite, Willow C.
ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL
SCHOOL
830 Qiu, Selinda
ST. MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC
ACADEMY
303 Gibson, Linus A.
ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL
SCHOOL
999 Mast, Hayden L.
170 Orman, Catherine E.
628 Raven, Austin
459 Sage, Harry A.
160 Thompson, Eloise P.
VANDEGRIFT H. S.
185 Agarwal, Nikita
162 Balasubramanian, Shruthi
218 Chintapalli, Anya
303 Cuddy, Kendall
870 Curley, Hannah
451 Fisher, William
455 Fontani Herreros, Alex
712 Gondi, Vyshali
628 Jhanji, Rayhan
160 Kalidas, Ashwin
501 Kasireddy, Viswanath
999 Lai, Victor
250 Mulpuri, Samiksha
303 Patel, Sonesh
628 Risner, Caroline
870 Varghese, Megan
950 Welliver, Evan
VERITAS ACADEMY
185 Anderson, Catharine L.
WESTLAKE H. S.
628 Cohen, Brooke F.
843 Criswell, Abby
455 Donnelly, Colin T.
200 Gambarin, Elena K.
162 Gardner, Emily E.
999 Guess, Sophie P.
628 Ikram, Naira
000 Iyer, Saitej
450 Kearney, Matthew
627 Lien, Vy
999 Lin, Jasper
619 Lyszkowski, Kelsey D.
467 Marshall, Luke M.
629 Martinez, Ruy A.
723 McFarland, Elizabeth
300 Murphy, Marika M.
456 O'Bryon, Conor R.
302 Pham, Peter N.
450 Pousset, Rosemarie C.
999 Rehani, Eeshaan M.
450 Sun, Lillian L.
999 Wang, Kyle A.
999 Wang, William
303
450
Wiedemeier, Joshua D.
Zhang, Angela
000 Ziaja, William
999 Zou, Isabella W.
WESTWOOD H. S.
218 Adcock, Noah R.
303 Bao, Daniel
950 Beaty, Martha R.
451 Benner, Owen P.
907 Bettadpur, Sanjana I.
450 Block, Charles O.
470 Bowers, Julia I.
628 Chang, Tuo
303 Chen, Albert J.
200 Chen, Brian J.
200 Chintala, Apoorva
459 Chiu, Brian W.
907 Cho, Joonhee
628 Choudhary, Kavyaa D.
834 Dean, Marshall C.
300 Deng, Daniel
999 Desai, Kush K.
160 Desai, Nisha C.
906 Dong, Mona C.
467 Gatson, Rory S.
628 Goff, Nicolas K.
628 Govande, Janhavi V.
303 Goyal, Ritik P.
740 Gretta, Lucas Q.
870 Henley, Jared C.
450 Hsieh, David
628 Huang, Kevin Y.
455 Ingle, Tanvi A.
628 Jain, Arjun
303 Joshi, Rucha
600 Kim, Iris
999 Kim, Jiwon
791 Kim, Junwoo
628 Kuttanna, Niam P.
742 Lee, Junu
999 Li, Catherine J.
300 Li, Kevin
710 Lu, Andrew H.
628 Lu, Audrey F.
303 Malwade, Niti R.
628 Mandavilli, Rohith
603 Maniyar, Anuj O.
999 Nagle, Osric A.
628 Nayak, Sanika S.
628 Park, Jessie C.
457 Parulekar, Aditya U.
628 Patel, Devika M.
628 Purohit, Yash M.
999 Rajan, Naveen H.
999 Shen, Jack R.
999 Singh, Akash
303 Sreekanth, Varshinee
162 Sze, Ryan H.
628 Thallapureddy, Aneesh R.
628 Thiagarajan, Shreya
163 Thirkoveloori, Vaishnavi
628 Tian, Persephone J.
999 Wang, James C.
628 Wang, Phoenix
628 Yalamanchili, Sreya
836 Yan, James L.
904 Zhang, Kathleen Z.
BAYTOWN
BARBERS HILL H. S.
455 Alexander, Austin K.
BEAUMONT
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY
162 Shams, Syed S.
MONSIGNOR KELLY
CATHOLIC H. S.
450 Steinman, John
WEST BROOK H. S.
999 Lin, Eric D.
BELLAIRE
BELLAIRE H. S.
904 Brown, Robert A.
160 Contello, Rachel M.
628 Dai, Eric J.
000 Entchev, Daniel P.
600 Han, Evan Y.
467 Ho, Alexander J.
455 Huang, Jasmine L.
000 Jin, Wendy
999 Kelly, Patrick M.
843 Kharel, Tirtha M.
467 Levitt, Christopher I.
Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
CEDAR CREEK CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE HIGHLANDS H. S.
Texas (continued) CEDAR CREEK H. S. FLOUR BLUFF H. S. 000 Allen, Jackson T.
450 Davis, Eric 160 Trial, Hallie 712 Randall, Jonathan H.

450 Lin, Michelle M. CEDAR PARK RICHARD KING H. S. BISHOP LYNCH H. S.

161 Ling, Ruth CEDAR PARK H. S. 999 Maheshwari, Akash T. 522 Drabek, Emily A.
450 Macia, Sarah E. 161 Cormia, Ryan
999 McAuliffe, Skylar N. 303 Ingarfield, William FOY H. MOODY SCIENCE - RICHLAND COLLEGIATE H. S.
628 Nguyen, Alexander K. 161 Kim, Mina HEALTH H. S. 450 Tran, Tien T.
843 Olinger, Gabrielle D. 628 O'Hanlon, Cristina 450 Baldree, Mackenzie M.
999 Pan, Emily Y. SCHOOL FOR THE TALENTED
999 Parsons, Charlotte M. VISTA RIDGE H. S. W. B. RAY H. S. AND GIFTED
628 Parsons, Mackenzie L. 600 Jia, Adelle
454 Connor, Cole 451 Weddle, Lucas H.
457 Parsons, Rebecca C. 501 Linde, Solvay
500 Hargrave, Samuel
630 Richards, Emily P. 200 McAulay, Julia M.
303 Larson, Grant CORSICANA
843 Shukla, Pavan A. 450 Reilly, Jeremiah D.
CORSICANA H. S. 999 Wang, Jessica H.
999 Sood, Kabir
628 Su, Samantha L. CIBOLO 171 Nutt, Derek S.
BYRON P. STEELE II H. S. SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND
905 Szafranski, Elizabeth R. 450 Buske, Andrew M. CYPRESS ENGINEERING MAGNET
710 Tate, Jacob M.
741 Uraimov, Omar CY - FAIR H. S. 457 Callahan, Matthew B.
204 Wen, Sarah J. CLUTE 121 Griffith, Christopher P. 451 Chandak, Yash A.
302 Williams, Scott S. BRAZOSWOOD H. S. 628 Moturu, Amar E. 300 Cooper, Daschel R.
454 Xin, Jingyi 999 Sferrazza, Michelle L. 160 Selz, Evelyn J. 454 Rawat, Saumya
628 Xu, Anna C. 161 Rege, Raviraj J.
999 Xu, Jennifer COLLEGE STATION CYPRESS RANCH H. S. 162 Thomas, Sasha
451 Yuan, Yuanchen A & M CONSOLIDATED H. S. 999 Kumar, Carissa N.
160 Zheng, Julia J. 999 Chang, Hannah R. 455 Seaver, Thomas M. ST. MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS
892 Zimmerman, Geoffrey W. 450 Farrell, Darragh P. 300 Wang, Andrew A. 000 Akbar, Abdullah M.
629 Fu, Lingyi 999 Bailey, Charles D.
EPISCOPAL H. S. 999 Hawthorne, Lacey B. CYPRESS WOODS H. S. 000 Berger, Owen A.
000 Allan, Sophie C. 450 Rasmussen, Melissa A. 168 Bozinov, Vincent P. 999 Byeon, Daniel J.
999 Cook, Aidan S. 459 Salzman, Riva C. 302 Cheng, Meggie L. 999 Feng, Kevin D.
000 Edwards, Avery L. 773 Sprintson, Michael 450 Jonnalagadda, Chakra P. 454 Jiang, Alan
000 Graves, Aaron P. 555 Wu, Grace 461 Kothi, Gandhar A. 999 Parolisi, Jack
000 Ogle, Blake E. 999 Zhan, Jennifer L. 454 Speight, Claire E. 000 Pegues, Toussaint M.
451 Tighe, George P. 837 Pittson, Ethan C.
000 Rabin, Reece B.
BELTON COLLEGE STATION H. S.
HOMESCHOOL 999 Ro, Yunjae
BELTON H. S. 166 Bardenhagen, Anna
904 Mirasola, Audrey K. 000 Vemuri, Niteesh
160 Shedore, Serena A. 455 Pistikopoulos, Ioannis P.
000 Wilson, Harris J.
303 Thomson, Ilham H.
BOERNE 999 Yao, Sarah C. DALLAS URSULINE ACADEMY
BOERNE - SAMUEL V. CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL 467 Mihalic, Isabella
CHAMPION H. S. COLLEYVILLE 999 Northrop, Anne 999 Simons, Kathryn M.
302 Hernandez, Mateo E. COLLEYVILLE HERITAGE H. S. 461 Solomon, Austin
450 Montez, Michael 999 Anderson, Jackson T. 455 Solomon, Bryant
VANGUARD PREPARATORY
830 Sanders, James M. 999 De La Cruz, Melanie E. SCHOOL
833 Weber, Christopher P. 870 Hoffman, Megan E. EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 000 Randall, Charles F.
907 Hurtado, Alicia S. 463 Mittal, Tarushi R.
BOERNE H. S. 455 Kabra, Shreya D. 600 Smythe, Katherine T. YAVNEH ACADEMY
303 Hoke, Tanner M. 999 Ladhani, Arsh F. 628 Dunsky, Evie Y.
209 Lakey, Megan L. HIGHLAND PARK H. S.
BRYAN 999 Matthews, Ethan L. 162 Beasley, Reuben M.
455 Moore, Ava R.
DECATUR
BRYAN H. S. 162 Chen, Karen M. DECATUR H. S.
950 Lamb, Kimberly R. 459 Morales Cuadrado, Evanns G. 450 Emerson, Thomas G. 450 Kyle, Madison L.
453 Nguyen, Alexander B. 170 Greaves, Emily P. 999 Wunrow, Kirsten E.
950 Panjwani, Nasir A. 843 Grossman, Luke H.
JAMES EARL RUDDER H. S. 870 Park, Hyeonjeong 303 Hopkins, Matthew C.
175 Scroggs, Layne A. DEER PARK
904 Patel, Zafir 300 MacMichael, John P.
160 Ramachandran, Shalini DEER PARK H. S. - SOUTH
303 Munn, Braden W. 302 Ham, Jonathan M.
BUDA 619 Schmidt, Colby N. 450 Orsak, Sarah G.
JACK C. HAYS H. S. 628 Shah, Raena R. 454 Pathak, Aaron
160 Bedwell, Alayna B. 602 Travis, Justine D. 900 Pathak, Yash
DENTON
162 Ye, Helen JOHN H. GUYER H. S.
999 Sinak, Slade H.
BURLESON 836 Winn, Andrew
200 Wu, Derek
HOMESCHOOL COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 628 Xie, Michael H.
162 Korb, Madison G. 450 Calabrese, Cameron J. 628 Zhang, Liangsheng
TEXAS ACADEMY OF
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
CARROLLTON 185 Anand, Soummitra
CONROE HOCKADAY SCHOOL 836 Annapureddy, Drupad
CREEKVIEW H. S. OAK RIDGE H. S. 000 Baschab, Emily F.
950 Hawkins, Christopher G. 999 Arora, Neha
300 Heard, Christopher J. 000 Beacham, Kaleigh J. 185 Bhaskaruni, Mithilesh
467 Hoffman, Nicholas A. 000 Dendi, Ritika
303 Jouett, Katherine L. 833 Bhavimane, Shashank V.
COPPELL 000 Fundis, Kate K. 628 Choi, Yoonjee
COPPELL H. S. 000 Guo, Effie 450 Davis, Nathan U.
HEBRON H. S. 000 Guo, Elizabeth
209 Atluri, Maurya 303 Gu, Garrett
628 Allam, Anthony R. 000 Han, Aurelia S.
999 Austin, Kathleen G. 303 Hobohm, Thomas S.
999 Chu, Maximus H. 000 Ji, Christine A.
843 Bhattacharyaa, Archishman 301 Kelkar, Pratik M.
450 Gonzalez Corson, David 000 Lee, Lin L.
904 Choi, Jihae S. 450 Ko, Justin S.
467 Jacob, Alan M. 000 McPhail, Maye
550 Davis, Avery J. 160 Lee, Elaine Y.
999 Jacob, Christy 000 Mehta, Mira A.
201 Donapati, Akhil R. 970 Lee, Isaac T.
000 Lux, Allyson L. 000 Newman, Eleanor F.
161 Elete, Varun R. 160 Li, Sharon
451 Morrison, Gaines R. 000 Orsak, Mary E.
999 Fralick, Connie M. 628 Liu, Karen
999 Nguyen, Andrew D. 000 Ristianto, Zasca-Aisha N.
999 Hatanpaa, Andrew T. 451 Lohse, Sven J.
162 Pham, Nhi X. 000 Wang, Jennifer
160 He, Hongxuan 185 McKee, Connor L.
451 Wise, Nathan D. 000 Westkaemper, Kelly B.
162 Kandru, Anvita P. 628 More, Aditya
628 Khawaja, Asad I. 843 Murugan, Pranav M.
NEWMAN SMITH H. S. 999 Kohli, Maydha M. J. B. S. MAGNET CENTER FOR 204 Naik, Amil N.
455 Bennett, Nathan J. 162 Mahesh, Riya PUBLIC SERVICE: GOVERNMENT, 162 Nguyen, Harold H.
450 Eoff, Alec D. 628 Mekala, Priya LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 833 Patel, Sahil S.
999 Peng, Byron L. 000 Gao, Michael D. 628 Qian, William
R. L. TURNER H. S. 451 Qiu, Eric 209 Shah, Jishnu A.
185 Kallianpur, Rohini V. 162 Sabhnani, Mallika K. JESUIT COLLEGE 628 Shah, Shalin S.
209 Strong, Joshua T. PREPARATORY SCHOOL 300 Shen, Michael R.
CARTHAGE 600 Vanam, Abhilash 000 Anguiano, Gabriel D. 162 Shi, Victoria R.
CARTHAGE H. S. 999 Wang, Gerald S. 000 Hargrave, Evan J. 160 Song, Victor M.
999 Mahaffey, Anne A. 162 Zhang, Frank M. 600 Thomas, Connor J. 301 Sun, Steven

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459 King, Brendan D. 461 Lee, Jin HEATH
Texas (continued) 833 Lleras, David A. 836 Patadia, Siddhi P. ROCKWALL - HEATH H. S.
628 Mendez, Sofia N. 300 Perumalla, Rohith 000 Coutch, Daria B.
454 Mongoven, Travis C. 160 Sil, Aishani 171 Evers, Anna N.
466 Tagnon, Clotilde 303 Moseley, Carson D. 160 Wadhawan, Nivan 999 Huang, Victoria Y.
185 Thang, Christopher J. 450 Murthy, Archana A. 629 Wong, Ally H. 457 Sherrod, Kyle R.
163 Tran, Timothy T. 990 Perry, David B. 000 Woodruff, Meghana A.
999 Traynin, Nikita P. 000 Pfeiffer, Jonah K. 169 Woods, Daniel J. HOUSTON
303 Wadawadigi, Anisha 628 Talasila, Sahithi 303 Yang, Charles M. AWTY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
999 Wang, Kevin H. 455 Turner, Jeremiah T. 454 Zhang, Iris 000 Grosvenor, Eleanor C.
741 Xiong, Katherine 870 Wilson, Miranda 742 Lewis, Brandon I.
000 Yakubek, Michelle LONE STAR H. S. 000 Meacham, Mary M.
450 Yan, Tan FORT WORTH 740 Leibowitz, Ryan S. 000 Yao, Jason L.
999 Yu, Linda BETHESDA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 600 Pattim, Samaya S.
999 Yuan, Marianne S. 999 Groves, Camden B. CARNEGIE VANGUARD H. S.
854 Zhang, Jennifer REEDY H. S. 630 Bailey, Cassandra L.
450 Zhang, Jiahan W. E. BOSWELL H. S. 217 Bedlan, Parker D. 454 Devashish, Kartik
303 Zhang, Rick 450 McNichols, Elijah H. 870 Liu, Trevor K. 906 Feldman, Amanda H.
450 Zhou, Langyan 450 Wang, Kevin M. 202 Holmes, Garrett M.
461 Zou, Sarah J. COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL 999 Hsu, Caitlin
461 Smith, Tate D. WAKELAND H. S. 740 Jajoo, Anuj K.
DRIPPING SPRINGS 459 Deleski, Andrew D. 168 Jessup, Raymond J.
DRIPPING SPRINGS H. S. FORT WORTH COUNTRY 600 George, Joel S. 710 Jung, Hee Soo
303 Gahagan, Ryan A. DAY SCHOOL 710 Quiroga, Sebastian 906 Kalamangalam, Rukmini
160 Haraguchi, Mia K. 999 Brenner, Alexa V. 712 Rao, Shreya I. 472 Karam, Matthew J.
300 Lee, Christopher S. 162 Chan, Michael S. 843 Tuttle, Kevin J. 472 Keneally, Riordan K.
999 De, Nikhil R. 843 Zaman, Mir R. 204 Khosla, Griffin R.
HOMESCHOOL 451 Mayhue, Lance S. 161 Liu, Samuel W.
161 Estrada, Isabel GALVESTON 743 Nguyen, An K.
HARMONY SCHOOL BALL H. S. 454 Omidiran, Ifeoluwani E.
EL PASO OF INNOVATION 160 Kitchel, Emma R. 999 Powers, Katherine F.
CAPTAIN JOHN L. CHAPIN H. S. 302 Harrel, Benson S. 628 Srivaths, Keshav S.
450 Jarolimek, Connor R. 450 Roots, Laura M. GARLAND
GARLAND H. S. CLEAR HORIZONS EARLY
CORONADO H. S. HOMESCHOOL 000 Bhuiyan, Tahrima A. COLLEGE H. S.
169 Cheu, Daven S. 160 Hunter, Benjamin Paul 943 Chowdhury, Safwan M. 628 Albustami, Ayah O.
457 Morris, Thaddeus S. 451 Durand, Ethan D. 457 Beaty, Aaron C.
EASTWOOD H. S. 200 Hill, Austin C. 160 Vo, Ryan T.
940 Orrantia-Kotowski, Michaela V. ROBERT L. PASCHAL H. S. 999 Mann, Ryan W.
254 Baldwin, Hunter 628 Tran, Brandon C.
450 Trout, Ryan A.
CLEAR LAKE H. S.
FRANKLIN H. S. 204 Heo, Dan 628 Alrahwan, Ian M.
712 Gonzalez Sanchez, Mauricio 999 Lasater, Edward B. 459 Tsao, Austin J.
300 Baylor, Travis J.
450 Nolan, Connor 999 Dong, Steven R.
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY 000 ONeil, Molly S. LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL H. S.
454 Edelen, John
999 Berg, Monica L. 000 Thielman, Samuel J. 501 Harris, Caleb T.
940 Enriquez, Samuel
712 Turner, Aaron M. 457 Glaze, Nicholas K.
EULESS 467 Wright, Esther M. SOUTH GARLAND H. S.
628 Huynh, Courtney
TRINITY H. S. 432 O'Malley, Ryan H.
999 Krishna, Gayathri M.
457 Ninan, Joel J. TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL 742 Mokkala, Sravan R.
451 Valtchanov, Alexander V. 214 Gandhi, Ronak R. GEORGETOWN 451 Muffoletto, Karina L.
628 Lee, Maria Virginia EAST VIEW H. S. 455 Nesbitt, Benjamin R.
FARMERSVILLE 999 Mackenzie, Kerry 999 Schaller, Courtney J.
217 Rao, Ankita V.
FARMERSVILLE H. S. 628 Ryu, Hijun 450 Sahnoune, Youcef H.
451 Renshaw, Matthew A. GILMER 501 Skaggs, Grant S.
FRIENDSWOOD HOMESCHOOL 454 Soltes, Amelia M.
FLOWER MOUND CLEAR BROOK H. S. 836 Phillips, Abigail S. 627 Theriot, Dylan D.
FLOWER MOUND H. S. 628 Dweik, Omran M. 163 Truong, Meghan
162 Apollaro, Lauren E. 907 Liu, Andrew GRANBURY 450 Wong, Yan Hao
257 Bennett, Brock J. 450 Majmudar, Akhil V. GRANBURY H. S.
000 Casey, Katherine 467 Payra, Syamantak 454 Cavitt, Joslyn E.
CYPRESS CREEK H. S.
200 Das, Shreyoshi 302 Matson, Ian
999 Ding, Melissa C. FRIENDSWOOD H. S. PREMIER H. S. 302 Sanders, Lorna N.
000 Durvasula, Akshay L. 302 Olsen, Oliver N. 742 Roberts, Aedan Z.
950 Espinoza, Jeffrey R. CYPRESS FALLS H. S.
455 Farris, Heather A. FRISCO GRAND PRAIRIE 465 Xu, Aaron J.
303 Gorantla, Teja S. CENTENNIAL H. S. JOHN A. DUBISKI CAREER H. S.
999 Goteti, Sidhardh 999 Mun, Matthew H. 600 Hernandez, Edgar
300 Peterson, Emily M.
CYPRESS RIDGE H. S.
950 Hall, Ethan M.
GRAND PRAIRIE FINE 600 Kim, Minjung
451 Hardwick, Nathan 843 Zhu, Jason
ARTS ACADEMY 450 Leger, Juliet M.
200 James, Kendall A.
940 Cowden, Katherine D. 628 Wang, William J.
455 Jayaram, Tanya FRISCO H. S.
451 Kinder, Michael R. 455 Newman, Jacob D.
303 Kudva, Ashwin K. 843 Royer, Brianna M. SOUTH GRAND PRAIRIE H. S. DARUL ARQAM NORTH
999 Kwak, Peter W. 161 Tran, Brandon ZONE SCHOOL
204 Lu, Kevin Z. HERITAGE H. S. 168 Syed, Hafsa A.
000 Miller, Riley 166 Chang, Cordel L. GRAPEVINE
628 Patel, Kishan P. 185 George, Nevin K. GRAPEVINE H. S. MICHAEL E. DE BAKEY H. S. FOR
833 Piwonka, Hayden E. 300 Kanakala, Ramesh R. 303 Bhave, Sanika V. HEALTH PROFESSIONS
160 Qasim, Tahir S. 843 Morse, Jennifer L. 454 Bradshaw, John J. 000 Belaguli, Sidharth N.
000 Russell, Morgan E. 999 Valliani, Beenish A. 161 Comiskey, Aidan M. 000 Kilicarslan, Elif Naz
000 Stacy, Carson 628 Ewing, Cortland W. 000 Kotha, Aishwarya S.
454 Tang, Catherine INDEPENDENCE H. S. 450 Gonzalez, Aiden L. 000 Mo, William T.
000 Tharwala, Priya 999 Boddu, Satya 450 Maragoudakis, Evangelos Y. 000 Nitturi, Vijay
161 Thomas, Jacob J. 451 Dronamraju, Nikhil 450 Miller, David M. 000 Ou, Eric
999 Toothman, Brooks W. 628 Isa, Salman S. 836 Miller, Ian K. 000 Pham, Jacqueline D.
999 Vasquez, Justin R. 904 Jiang, Joseph K. 450 Tanna, Vivek N. 000 Schroeder, Vera M.
999 Whipple, Kyle C. 454 Matthews, Ryan E. 450 Valencic, Luka 000 Xue, Brian
453 Wursten, Alexis J. 520 Saha, Shouryaman 999 Wadsworth, Ann E. 000 Yeh, Mason A.
999 Xu, Gulan N. 836 Welton, Claire E. 000 Zhang, Larry W.
LIBERTY H. S.
EDWARD S. MARCUS H. S. 218 Aravapalli, Deepti HALLSVILLE DUCHESNE ACADEMY OF THE
999 Bednarczyk, Jackson G. 450 Bhatt, Nirmal K. HALLSVILLE H. S. SACRED HEART
999 Corzatt, Joshua 450 Bohara, Arihant 450 Sheard, Hannah V. 550 Swackhamer, Sarah W.
201 Du, Austin 628 Dasgupta, Abhirupa
470 Garner, Michael N. 628 Gattu, Havish HASLET HARMONY SCHOOL
450 Han, Manho 303 Hirani, Aly M. V. R. EATON H. S. OF ADVANCEMENT
450 James, Gwyneth 450 Koukuntla, Sai Susheel 948 Mathis, Tobey M. 459 Ahmad, Shujah A.

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Texas (continued)
628 Ba, Brandon A.
870 Yucel, Feyza B.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE
PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS
467 Fu, Trevor Z.
628 Haynes, Tuesday B.
303 Jalbert, Jonathan J.
628 O'Connor, Caroline E.
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN H. S.
472 Dupree, Amy K.
454 Read, Ashley E.
INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY
453 Diamond, Elizabeth M.
JERSEY VILLAGE H. S.
450 Flores, Helaman R.
455 Huang, Shan Shan
467 Nguyen, Kathy Khuyen V.
600 Pham, Erik
303 Tran, Stephanie
KINKAID SCHOOL
000 Ghei, Jiya
000 Ho, Lauren T.
000 Kunetka, William
000 Rice, Lauren E.
000 Rome, Hayden M.
000 Schwager, Haley F.
000 Segal, Samuel R.
000 Thomas, Anna E.
000 Tilney, Charles M.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR H. S.
900 Calabrese, Camille R.
629 Han, Jiayuan
LANGHAM CREEK H. S.
999 Andrews, Gavin R.
999 Ferrell, Camden M.
742 Young, Amanda B.
DR. KIRK LEWIS CAREER AND
TECHNICAL H. S.
461 Ly, Kevin D.
LUTHERAN SOUTH ACADEMY
303 Leimkuehler, Andrew N.
MEMORIAL H. S.
710 An, Hannah J.
450 Burns, Paolo A.
720 Cheng, Claire
121 Cowan, Sarah Y.
999 Creed, Chloe M.
740 Curry, Samuel
201 Dou, Wenxuan
906 Foster, Kendrick N.
467 Halbert-Elliott, Kyra M.
600 Herbst, Eliot
201 Hurley, Robert C.
900 Jacobs, Eva
459 Landa, Albert S.
300 Li, Ellen
450 Ling, Natalie R.
450 Nguyen, Pierce L.
907 Noyola, Pablo P.
168 Qin, Emily Y.
628 Sands, Chloe
628 Weber, Ronald M.
162 Wright, Nicole M.
ST. AGNES ACADEMY
999 Cho, Claire
710 Covington, Alexis
999 Faison, Alexandra M.
999 Farr, Megan E.
712 Fitzsimmons, Makenna R.
999 Koch, Irene E.
830 Kuryla, Anna S.
303 Lord, Hannah C.
162 Meyne, Grace M.
185 Steier, Maureen E.
894 Sutter, Sophia R.
ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL
454 Awad, Elizabeth G.
160 Bandi, Ashwini V.
200 Blue, Grace J.
455 Boom, John
999 Boroughs, Zachary D.
999 Brown, Jacob K. 628 Medina, Alonso S. 160 Punia, Viraaj S.
000 Buckman, Alexander J. 303 Treadway, Caleb M. 456 Sequeira, Sneha N.
300 Buckman, Peter J. 712 Toong, Ping Rui
463 Burnette, Cameryn A. HIGHLANDS SCHOOL
999 Cerda, Lauren E. 254 Ramirez, Mark KELLER
455 Chakraborty, Riya CENTRAL H. S.
999 Chen, Emily J. HOMESCHOOL 303 Kenney, Patrick M.
999 Chen, William J. 454 Kumar, Srishti 999 Mitchell, Austin K.
999 Coudsi, John
204 Donovan, Samuel R. NORTH HILLS PREPARATORY KELLER H. S.
160 Fenouil, Julien M. 451 Hassan, Evan J. 950 Goble, Gwendolyn H.
501 Harraman, Carson R. 999 Milhorn, Luke R. 790 Hines, Claire E.
450 He, Michael X. 303 Ward, Ryan M.
999 Hlavinka, Joseph W. KATY
836 Ho, Samuel Y. CINCO RANCH H. S. TIMBER CREEK H. S.
999 Jackson, Sean T. 200 Ding, Ruihua 254 Anzaldua, Noah K.
999 Jing, Katherine G. 836 Gadiyar, Shruti 303 Sanders, Colin C.
000 Jung, Jaehoon 301 Kong, Alex H. 999 Whitaker, Emily G.
600 Kernell, Caroline G. 600 Ku, Russell Y.
999 Kim, Alexander M. 999 Lee, Ji Won KILGORE
300 Kramer, Jordan E. 600 Lee, Michelle S. KILGORE H. S.
467 Laborde, Mark E. 302 Li, Laura C. 870 Green, Bailey E.
999 Laniyan, Oluwalayomi O. 162 Liu, Tommy B.
303 Louie, Kurt T. 455 Rooney, Abigail E. KINGWOOD
200 McKelvey, Laurel 454 Tian, Michael Q. HOMESCHOOL
450 Morris, Avery L. 160 Wang, Amy 950 Luo, Joanna F.
955 Ragauss, Emily A. 999 Xu, Elizabeth H.
999 Roffwarg, Jacob G. 940 Yang, Alice J.
250 Still, Henry KINGWOOD H. S.
999 Yang, Julia Yuxuan 161 Cates, Allison D.
700 Tyler, Lucas B. 302 Yang, Melissa J. 454 Crane, Carson J.
999 Waller, Julia A. 999 Yuk, Kevin K. 600 Khan, Aliya S.
907 Wan, Andrew Z.
628 Leal, Leslie M.
999 Yan, Dani CYPRESS LAKES H. S. 450 Smith, Kaitlin E.
553 Zhang, Olivia R. 450 Nguyen, Terry 771 Smith, Molly M.
201 Stroud, Carly A.
ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL HARMONY SCHOOL 200 Walton, William L.
SCHOOL OF INNOVATION 501 Zhuang, Brent X.
970 Warren, Claire E. 843 Long, Morgan S.
600 Scott, Tanner M. KLEIN
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
999 Fueyo-Gomez, Juan KLEIN H. S.
HOMESCHOOL 200 Baker, Logan J.
162 Hodes, Hannah B. 950 Chen, Tyler W.
ST. THOMAS H. S.
740 Castillo, Juan M. 843 Galang, Jonathan R.
SEVEN LAKES H. S. 467 Humpherys, Joshua T.
628 Dang, Kenneth
164 Chakraborty, Ashish D. 628 Schmidt, Andrew W.
457 Gottschalk, Cooper T.
454 Daboin, Claudia N.
200 Patton, Michael T.
303 Feng, Jixuan LEAGUE CITY
160 Gao, Kevin CLEAR CREEK H. S.
STRAKE JESUIT 455 Garfias, Louis F.
COLLEGE PREPARATORY 454 Biggerstaff, Alec
904 Jadhav, Som M. 904 Lindberg, Scott T.
000 Athaide, Edward J. 999 Kim, Jun-Yong
164 McCarty, Margaret E.
000 La, Troy M. 999 Kyoung, Kyouar
000 Li, Charles 160 Raji, Michael O.
300 Li, George Y.
459 Liu, Dennis CLEAR FALLS H. S.
STRATFORD H. S. 999 Liu, Hannah
830 Baring, Geoffrey O. 161 Abate, Alex S.
160 Liu, Sophie R. 843 Wen, Allen C.
164 Harms, Madeline N. 457 Luo, Bruce Y.
999 Mouton, Mary K. 160 Paidisetty, Praneet S.
CLEAR SPRINGS H. S.
450 Rydahl, Thor A. 161 Baetz, Elijah W.
VILLAGE SCHOOL 450 Shui, Roger H.
999 Beilstein, Christopher M. 628 Jeon, Young Hee
450 Srinivasan, Hrishikesh S. 160 Lee, Ka Yeon
906 Hutsell, William M. 454 Thigpen, Brett M.
843 McGuire, Lauren K.
999 Liu, Alex 451 Tia, Joshua
999 Nguyen, Christopher T.
160 Menon, Simren R. 999 Wang, Zachary
843 Nguyen, Daniel T.
160 Patel, Reshmi J. 164 Wu, Kevin W.
162 Stewart, Valerie E.
450 Ramirez, Federico 200 Yang, Amy Q.
999 Zhang, Angela 454 Yang, Haechan
LEANDER
836 Yang, Saebin
WESTCHESTER ACADEMY OF 450 Ye, Jennings Z.
LEANDER H. S.
162 King, Abigail
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
720 Zong, Charlie A. ST. JOHN XXIII ROUSE H. S.
COLLEGE PREPARATORY 999 Simpson, David
WESTSIDE H. S. 430 Parmenter, Bridget A.
742 Chen, Hsin-Wei 455 Poux, Emily A.
520 Hudson, Sarah G. LEWISVILLE
JAMES E. TAYLOR H. S. LEWISVILLE H. S.
HUMBLE 160 Anderson, Krista M.
628 Bandyopadhyay, Argha
ATASCOCITA H. S. 301 Blount, Reese A.
999 Trambaugh, Hunter R. 450 Choi, Inyoung LINDSAY
457 Cortes, Santiago LINDSAY H. S.
QUEST EARLY COLLEGE H. S. 999 Kim, Isaac Y. 628 Craigie, Brandon
466 Thomas, Andrew 894 Laetsch, John
218 Larkin, Alanna D. LIVE OAK
HURST 999 Liu, Emily F. JUDSON EARLY
LAWRENCE D. BELL H. S. 999 Llopiz, Leonardo COLLEGE ACADEMY
712 Swann, Gillian E. 843 Matava, William J. 185 Fernandes, Pearl
999 Tang, Shirley C.
HUTTO 999 Wang, Laurence N. LUBBOCK
HUTTO H. S. 710 Wong, Jodi J. ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
955 Wassilchalk, Adam J. 999 Cannon, Colten D.
OBRA D. TOMPKINS H. S. 900 Chaudhuri, Natalie
IRVING 999 Jiang, Ella A.
CISTERCIAN PREPARATORY 990 Kataram, Srisai Rachana HOMESCHOOL
SCHOOL 999 Knapp, Tyler L. 870 Clark, Grace E.
454 Comeaux, Marshall E. 300 Kumar, Varsha
454 Cox, Joseph 999 Nguyen, Dat M. LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
742 Kirkpatrick, Hudson B. 160 Orozco, Maria F. 302 Perlmutter, Marika K.
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TRINITY SCHOOL PLANO EAST H. S. 600 Liu, Richard
Texas (continued) 999 Sanz, Jordan T. 466 Agrawal, Vedant S. 834 Lu, Christina
999 Whitson, Jordyn M. 628 Barevadia, Vikas G. 999 Luo, Jason
628 Battu, Shreya Moh 999 Ma, Michael Y.
LUBBOCK H. S. MIDLOTHIAN 628 Beesam, Adhya 467 McAdams, Jade A.
950 Chae, Soohyun MIDLOTHIAN H. S. 628 Beesam, Shriya 303 Mehta, Ishaan K.
999 Gaines, Georgeanna G. 455 Keener, Rachel E. 306 Budic, Marin 943 Nadella, Abhinav
600 Huo, Haoting 920 Oliver, William G. 301 Choudhary, Harsh 600 Ng, Kaitlyn V.
999 Lee, Michael 204 Gorla, Raghu H. 628 Popokh, Benjamin B.
161 Pillai, Aiswarya J. MIDLOTHIAN HERITAGE H. S. 450 Gupta, Mohit 907 Ramaswamy, Nikhil
999 Yan, Andrew H. 999 Lansdowne, Carson J. 301 Hayaran, Rahul S. 870 Reilly, Katherine E.
999 Yang, Amy 628 Kotta, Anuhya S. 943 Rizvi, Soha A.
302 Yeh, Shao-Lon M. MISSION 742 Kwon, Andrew Y. 457 Shufer, Allen
450 Yeo, Jin SHARYLAND PIONEER H. S. 520 Lao, Yulsue B. 450 Sperry, Katherine F.
712 Jones, Samuel L. 628 Lou, Michael Y. 451 Stapleton, Lindsay M.
906 Macpherson, Margaret R. 200 Sun, David C.
LUFKIN 906 Madhani, Shyam P. 450 Toprak, Furkan C.
HUDSON H. S. MISSOURI CITY
ELKINS H. S. 600 Phung, Minh-Huy N. 160 Tsong, Annette J.
628 Nguyen, Thien A. 459 Ramesh, Rithvik 209 Vu, Alanna N.
456 Shah, Sahil
467 Singh, Ashish 950 Roan, Veronica M. 740 Wang, Brian
LUFKIN H. S. 204 Zhang, Henry 950 Sachan, Kshitij 999 Wu, Frances W.
162 Calhoun, Michael 712 Saxena, Akhil 303 Xiong, Roy L.
302 Zute, Alisha
605 Thompson, Baxter A. 999 Yanakiev, Matey T.
MAGNOLIA 459 Tjuatja, Lindia 999 Yang, Bill J.
L. V. HIGHTOWER H. S.
MAGNOLIA H. S. 999 Zhao, Matthew W. 999 Yang, Carlyn J.
185 Sarkar, Suravi
000 Alford, Ryan W. 628 Yu, Renee
200 Yang, Jerry Z.
160 Shortle, Lillian I. PLANO H. S. 204 Yellaturu, Anish R.
904 Adarkar, Kanishk M. 999 Yi, Angel T.
MONTGOMERY 201 Yuan, Austin H.
MAGNOLIA WEST H. S. MONTGOMERY H. S. 999 Barnett, Alison I.
907 Bigler, Noah J. 303 Barth, Zoe G. 303 Zhang, Briana J.
628 Chang, Hope C.
457 Traweek, Jonas T. 628 Berana, Swetha V. 209 Zhang, Stephanie Y.
200 Chen, Karen Z. 999 Zhu, Daphne S.
NEW BRAUNFELS 710 Zou, Charissa Y.
554 Chen, Sarah H.
MANSFIELD NEW BRAUNFELS H. S. 450 Zou, Elizabeth Y.
300 Contoveros, Timothy J.
MANSFIELD H. S. 470 Forlano, Clancy R.
999 Cui, Alexandria H.
791 Nguyen, Kayla N. PRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN
712 Faiz, Umar Z.
999 Ullman, Hayley S. NORTH RICHLAND HILLS ACADEMY
502 Fan, Zhiyuan
E. A. YOUNG ACADEMY 450 Johnson, Jessica C. 999 Bohn, Dylan A.
MANSFIELD LAKE RIDGE H. S. 200 Garcia, Ana R. 300 Jow, Raymond
301 Vo, Nicholas T. 302 Kinney, Kevin M. PLEASANTON
RICHLAND H. S. 303 Le, Vinh Q. PLEASANTON H. S.
MANSFIELD LEGACY H. S. 906 Bonnet, Michael A. 454 Lee, Seoyoung 451 Elmer, Matthew D.
459 Haslam, Nathan J. 837 Murrell, Peyton R. 162 Lei, Katherine
950 King, Ryan P. 999 Potluri, Abhilash C. PORT ARANSAS
ORANGE 600 Tsai, Veda Z. PORT ARANSAS H. S.
MC ALLEN LITTLE CYPRESS - 550 Velick, Sarah D. 450 Kreutziger, Logan K.
MC ALLEN H. S. MAURICEVILLE H. S. 162 Xia, Shuda
836 Garzonie, Garrett Z. 450 Barr, Chandler R. 600 Yang, Jonathan Z. PORTLAND
999 Zhang, Triston M. GREGORY - PORTLAND H. S.
PALESTINE 950 Stegall, Dmitriy V.
MC KINNEY HOMESCHOOL
HOMESCHOOL PLANO ISD ACADEMY H. S.
500 Moody, Jerry M. 300 Malik, Usaid
999 Womac, Hannah L. PROSPER
PROSPER H. S.
PASADENA PLANO WEST H. S. 170 Cummings, Meghan J.
MC KINNEY BOYD H. S. PASADENA MEMORIAL H. S.
301 Duffee, Christian B. 999 Abdul, Sadiya A. 204 Guerrero, Nicolas A.
771 Anderson, Melissa K.
628 Jeong, Nichole 999 Abeysinghe, Dishan L. 450 Windon, Alexander S.
202 Low, Alyssa S. 500 Ahire, Navin L.
161 Natarajan, Smriti G.
PEARLAND 450 Arjun, Aditya RED OAK
GLENDA DAWSON H. S. 950 Bai, Kevin Z.
160 Patuwathavithane, Ranithri H. RED OAK H. S.
870 Chen, Grace H. 999 Bhattarai, Gunjan R. 451 Bannister, Sara
870 Chen, Kevin 300 Chai, Andrew T.
MC KINNEY H. S. 209 Dave, Ashish S.
500 El-hindi, Basil A. 450 Chandra, Nisha P. RICHARDSON
628 Derasari, Shrey J. 600 Chang, Christy R.
467 Marchal, Kierstin G. 451 Ellinger, Molly E. LLOYD V. BERKNER H. S.
743 Wu, Ashley 450 Cheung, Thomas B. 000 Yeh, Angela C.
160 Hong, Elizabeth H. 171 Choi, Woo Jin
628 Lavu, Chaitanya V. 450 Deng, Eric W.
MC KINNEY NORTH H. S. 451 Lewandowski, Christian R. HOMESCHOOL
162 Desai, Ashwin S. 740 Aberle, Jonathan J.
999 Gaughan, Delaney 710 Liu, Julie 628 Fan, Zoie 160 Newell, Kathleen E.
950 Love, Elizabeth M. 463 Moore, Abigail G. 209 Fang, Cody Y.
160 Miller, Samantha G. 162 Ram, Adith V. 457 Fass, Michael P.
450 Molera, Grace K. 743 Salvador, Sarah E. J. J. PEARCE H. S.
450 Gammon, Shelby A.
450 Srinivasan, Shruthi 999 Dolmas, Lewis J.
218 Garber, Ashley E.
MERCEDES 999 Tran, Tabitha D. 457 Goel, Dhruv
451 Gautam, Ritesh
SCIENCE ACADEMY OF 455 Vines, William E. 970 Li, Richard W.
600 Ge, Eric L.
SOUTH TEXAS 907 Yordy, Katherine A. 450 Mandell, Nathan A.
999 Gioia, Thomas P.
467 Diaz, Jorge A. 628 Yu, Jennifer X. 454 Scholl, David J.
947 Guo, David L.
742 Gonzalez, Tonatiuh A. 712 Yusuf, Benjamin J. 467 Schutz, Jonathan D.
162 Guo, Richard W.
907 Vokey, Colby C.
450 Hao, Kevin J.
PEARLAND H. S. 600 Zhang, Hongyi
SOUTH TEXAS H. S. OF 160 He, Angela S.
999 Moore, Rachel C. 000 Zhou, Dingjing Yu
HEALTH PROFESSIONS 830 Hsieh, Teddy
161 Cua, Margaret L. 204 Smith, Jessalyn E. 171 Huang, Andrew Y.
600 Hylander, Dylan J.
RICHARDSON H. S.
SHADOW CREEK H. S. 999 Ralston, Erika K.
MESQUITE 454 Ito, Emma F.
999 Crews, Austin 600 Iyengar, Niyenth K.
MESQUITE H. S. RICHMOND
000 Eckstein, Micah W. 303 Jiang, Sharon
PFLUGERVILLE 161 Kapoor, Prakul FOSTER H. S.
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY 303 Khadilkar, Saumil H. 628 Schexnider, Lea D.
NORTH MESQUITE H. S. 204 Khan, Roshan L. 712 Khalilian, Elizabeth K.
000 Pelino, Kevin G. GEORGE RANCH H. S.
164 Kim, Jason J.
000 Ray, Isaac A. PFLUGERVILLE H. S. 160 Jasek, Tayler J.
454 Lam, Emily J.
605 Gucer, Doru 209 Leavell, Cameron P.
DR. RALPH H. POTEET H. S. 628 Lee, Jordan A. WILLIAM B. TRAVIS H. S.
000 Gorden, Emily PLANO 999 Lee, Sooyong 454 Momin, Zamann
JOHN PAUL II H. S. 999 Li, Andy
MIDLAND 451 Bondi, Jason 204 Li, Kaitlynn ROCKPORT
ROBERT E. LEE H. S. 870 Gitzinger, Benjamin M. 999 Lin, Dachey ROCKPORT - FULTON H. S.
455 Calloway, Courtney C. 999 Noyes, Allison 904 Lin, Ranie 160 Hartman, Helen M.

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Texas (continued)
ROCKWALL
ROCKWALL H. S.
628 Bassett, Parker T.
300 DeMars, Kevin J.
ROUND ROCK
CEDAR RIDGE H. S.
457 Kampfe, Jameson F.
600 Scott, Connor J.
HOMESCHOOL
742 Matzner, Thomas V.
ROUND ROCK H. S.
628 Abed, Ammar M.
200 Harvill, Matthew A.
628 Kennison, Alec N.
999 Mishler, Emma G.
940 Pascarella, Kaylee M.
451 Peeples, William A.
455 Shed, Oren C.
773 Tang, David
STONY POINT H. S.
450 Coker, Noah M.
522 Nguyen, Johnny
160 Swami, Neeti
ROWLETT
ROWLETT H. S.
451 Hardy, John C.
SALADO
SALADO H. S.
185 Manning, Kayla M.
SAN ANTONIO
ALAMO HEIGHTS H. S.
200 McGinnis, Tyler A.
200 Pfirrmann, James R.
BASIS SAN ANTONIO
MEDICAL CENTER
628 Poovathoor, Rachel-Ann T.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS H. S.
999 Zhao, Shuying
CENTRAL CATHOLIC H. S.
742 Guerra, Daniel
TOM C. CLARK H. S.
833 McNierney, Stephen P.
COMMUNICATION ARTS H. S.
999 Goring, Nora H.
HOMESCHOOL
742 Hensley, Hagan E.
LADY BIRD JOHNSON H. S.
999 Hettler, Catherine J.
836 Moon, Sandra
KEYSTONE SCHOOL
700 Delmer, Samuel S.
843 Meade, Evan M.
605 Mummidi, Adithya
833 Wilkins, John C.
999 Zhao, Jared L.
NORTHSIDE HEALTH
CAREERS H. S.
628 Cole, Donese C.
160 Huang, Camsy Y.
RONALD REAGAN H. S.
628 Ali, Mashal
843 Feng, Hannah A.
160 Gutierrez, Susana A.
999 Hird, Jessica C.
185 Mainali, Deena
160 Sarlashkar, Priya J.
628 Shenouda, Marina
712 Siddiqi, Haaris Z.
303 Uribe Tucker, Fausto
160 Zhan, Kelsey M.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT H. S.
175 Blue, Alaina M.
742 Kaplan, Saffron M.
843 Timlin, Howard J.
ST. MARY'S HALL
999 Casey, Michael G.
160 Goldstone, Isaac M.
000 Greiner, Mikayla M.
160 Kumar, Devan
454 Wilson, Emily E.
TMI - THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
OF TEXAS
160 Arellano, Ethan S.
SCHERTZ
SAMUEL CLEMENS H. S.
628 Borland, Hannah L.
742 Morales, Manuel
SEMINOLE
SEMINOLE H. S.
101 Jackson, Lacy
SOUTHLAKE
CARROLL H. S.
628 Asim, Hira
185 Avirneni, Sriram
940 Brown, Adrienne P.
948 Chandra, Malini V.
160 Chaney, Whitney E.
943 Cox, Camilla R.
500 Dave, Arman
833 Fondon, Kyle W.
451 Hill, Edward M.
628 Jain, Suyash
947 Javens, Hannah E.
628 Ma, Samuel Z.
628 Mageswaran, Myron
209 Patel, Aman
740 Reusche, Taylor A.
999 Riordan, Dylan
771 Rusli, Amelia C.
455 Rutledge, Connor P.
450 Stelling, Logan M.
600 Tsai, Alice
999 Tung, Madelynn
600 Weng, Zan
SPRING
KLEIN COLLINS H. S.
830 Bowering, Joseph C.
803 Evans, Owen S.
KLEIN OAK H. S.
904 George, Alan J.
209 Nguyen, Alexander Q.
628 Nguyen, Nicholas B.
455 Rodriguez, Porfirio
770 Roy, Anwesha
628 Sudhakaran, Rhea
455 Summers, Zachary
628 Tran, Michelle K.
PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL SCHOOL
467 Overcash, Joshua P.
SPRING BRANCH
SMITHSON VALLEY H. S.
843 Fang, Jerry D.
843 Hanscom, Benjamin W.
SUGAR LAND
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN H. S.
302 Bethke, Ryan
218 Ji, Christina
301 Li, Victor
843 Paluri, Lakshmi
602 Patel, Amy
209 Tan, Daniel
999 Trinh, Andy Sang
WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS H. S.
214 Aranke, Nishant
160 Chang, Angela
451 Chang, Anthony
628 Chaturvedi, Muskaan
459 Chen, Eric
300 Chen, Matthew
204 Dhawan, Isha
999 Dongre, Ruchika
162 Gangu, Swetha
628 Ginjupalli, Mahija
301 Gunda, Indhusri
742 Guo, Alicia
629 Guo, Stephanie
000 Hohl, Brenner
830 Huang, Jason
160 Liang, Drake
628 Ram, Keshav
790 Roberts, Elizabeth
999 Wang, Brandon
201 Wang, Faye
870 Wang, Nicole
303 Wang, Warren
600 Xu, Andrew
204 Yan, Rena
628 Yan, Sally
999 Zhang, Jenny
628 Zhang, Michael
300 Zheng, Stephen
999 Zhou, Erika
160 Zhu, Joy
303 Zhu, Michelle
DULLES H. S.
160 Almus, Kadriye
450 Armendariz, Sara
450 Bhavani, Nikitha
160 Chow, Elsbeth
162 Diwanji, Palak
628 Gattu, Nikhil
628 Hu, Alice
302 Kassam, Amsal
870 Ma, Candice
461 Mehrani, Jaanita
450 Mitra, Kenneth
870 Mukkamala, Swara
162 Nguyen, Brittany
185 Ni, Star
455 Sackett, Abigail
770 Thipireddy, Shreya
907 Tuppera, Tejas
455 Zhang, Jeffrey
FORT BEND CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
943 Brown, Kelsey M.
HOMESCHOOL
000 Lee, Melissa Anne M.
LOGOS PREPARATORY ACADEMY
712 Maganza, Renae C.
TAYLOR
TAYLOR H. S.
999 Garry, Susan H.
THE COLONY
THE COLONY H. S.
160 Arnold, Nicole S.
THE WOODLANDS
JOHN COOPER SCHOOL
000 Masuelli, Carina R.
THE WOODLANDS COLLEGE
PARK H. S.
200 Barron, Randall L.
628 Cao, David W.
000 Davis, Jacob A.
450 Du, Stephanie Y.
209 Harras, Josephine C.
836 Hatch, Christopher M.
830 Imhoff, Eric D.
455 Le, Isabella C.
160 Li, Lilia
303 Lowe, Jonathon M.
162 Packer, Samuel A.
160 Rahman, Sreya S.
160 Ramchandran, Sanjana
303 Rees, Shane A.
209 Sajit, Vishnu K.
185 Schnicer, Indiana
301 Soares, Oluwatobi D.
600 Yuan, Mingyang
THE WOODLANDS H. S.
170 Cottrell, Victoria I.
628 Kessinger, Kenneth R.
459 Lee, Evan D.
300 Poon, Clark A.
955 Powers, Conor G.
TOMBALL
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN H. S.
204 Price, Alexis N.
TOMBALL MEMORIAL H. S.
302 Chen, Andrew T.
712 Colin, Elise A.
999 Detter, Derek D.
999 Ellison, Alexander C.
TROPHY CLUB
BYRON NELSON H. S.
185 Bass, Zoe M.
161 Burney, Haniyah N.
TROY
HOMESCHOOL
740 Johnson, Hannah C.
TYLER
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
454 Naydanova, Elizaveta A.
628 Su, Thomas Y.
BISHOP THOMAS K. GORMAN
CATHOLIC SCHOOL
454 Kariampuzha, William Z.
ROBERT E. LEE H. S.
628 Olson, Cody B.
UNIVERSAL CITY
RANDOLPH H. S.
455 Earley, Alexandra
VAN ALSTYNE
VAN ALSTYNE H. S.
467 Morgan, Emma K.
VICTORIA
ST. JOSEPH H. S.
454 Pyatt, Jordan
160 Rivera, Logan M.
VICTORIA EAST H. S.
162 Meis, Calder J.
VICTORIA WEST H. S.
162 Nguyen, Vy B.
WACO
LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL
457 Tyson, Garand T.
MIDWAY H. S.
943 Kanz, Andrew J.
450 Kuang, Hanxing
RAPOPORT ACADEMY
MEYER H. S.
740 Alexander, Evan B.
REICHER CATHOLIC H. S.
450 DeLaRosa, Manuel T.
WALLER
HOMESCHOOL
467 Lindblade, Nathan P.
WALLER H. S.
451 Sherar, John E.
WAXAHACHIE
WAXAHACHIE GLOBAL H. S.
743 Asirvadam, Kevin R.
WICHITA FALLS
HOMESCHOOL
999 Frank, Hixon D.
RIDER H. S.
999 Studer, Caleigh
WILLOW PARK
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
999 Baker, Hannah E.
450 Roberson, Matthew D.
WYLIE
WYLIE H. S.
450 Adams, Matthew E.
720 Stephens, Riley R.