These 472 Michigan high school students are National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

About 472 Michigan high-schoolers are semifinalists for the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, according to contest results released Wednesday.

The National Merit Scholarship Corp., which heads the program measuring individual scholastic ability and potential for success in college studies, announced the names of more than 16,000 students who were semifinalists Wednesday, Sept. 10.

That’s from among 1.3 million high school juniors in 20,000 schools who entered the latest competition across the country after taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT or National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, according to a news release on Wednesday, Sept. 10.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level before scholars are announced next year.

About 95% of semifinalists are expected to reach finalist standing, according to the scholarship corporation, and about half of finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

The qualifying test serves as an initial screening of program seniors with the number of semifinalists in each state proportional to its percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

To become a finalist, high-schoolers must submit a scholarship application detailing their academic record, participation in school and community activities, leadership abilities, employment, and other honors and awards.

They must additionally write an essay, earn SAT scores confirming their earlier performance, and receive an endorsement from a high school official.

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered next spring. Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 $2,500 awards in addition to about 830 corporate-sponsored awards and thousands of awards from roughly 150 colleges and universities.

The list of qualifying students in Michigan represent schools, districts and communities across the state.

ADA

FOREST HILLS EASTERN H. S.

• Nallan Chakravarthi, Shriya

ALLEGAN

ALLEGAN H. S.

• Vander Kooi, Treydan C.

ANN ARBOR

COMMUNITY H. S.

• Garfield, Noah
• Militzer, William

GREENHILLS SCHOOL

• DaSilva, Alexandra
• Gregg, Christopher
• Heider, Luna
• Korley, Noah
• Lowrie-Miuccio, Mikah
• Miller, Kate
• Purohit, Ajay
• Ramcharan, Chloe
• Sriram, Deeksha
• Wu, Richard
• Ye, Lauren
• Zhu, Samantha

HOMESCHOOL / ONLINE SCHOOL

• Thornton, Maya

HURON H. S.

• Bae, Haein
• Cai, Pierce
• Dang, Victoria
• He, William
• Huang, Jiaqi
• Johnsen, Kyle
• Kartha, Desmond
• Lee, Jayeun
• Meder, Dimitri
• Miao, Sean
• Neau, Violet
• Pale, Madeleine
• Pandit, Siddhant
• Panja, Tanay
• Ramanathan, Satvika
• Ramanathan, Tejasvi
• Senthil Kumar, Bhaavna
• Shi, Asia
• Wu, Jessica

PIONEER H. S.

• Bagley, Sebastian
• Bezold, Dean
• Corbett, Jack
• Groening, Walter
• Helms, Hayden
• Janevic, Aurora
• Kang, Minji
• Lopatin, Arthur
• Osler, Benjamin
• Paulson, Clara
• Peters, Peyton
• Pok, Hattie
• Regan, Patrick
• Sacks Thomas, Theo
• Vautour, Christopher
• Woo, Hyunsung
• Wu, Michael
• Zhang, Edward
• Zhu, Leah

FATHER GABRIEL RICHARD H. S.

• Ezin, Nathan
• Lee, Heeeun

SKYLINE H. S.

• Bae, Sungyun
• Dong, Sherry
• Farrell, Nicholas
• Kaufman, Benjamin
• Kim, Minjoon
• Mei, Emily
• Meng, Sean
• Powers, William
• Stephenson, Anneka
• Suh, Philip
• Wang, Jeffrey
• Zhou, Daniel

WASHTENAW TECHNICAL MIDDLE COLLEGE

• Ngo, Hanh-Nhan
• Nicolich, Jack

ARMADA

ARMADA H. S.

• McIntyre, Samuel S.

BATTLE CREEK

HARPER CREEK H. S.

• Arendsen, Aurora

BELLEVILLE

BELLEVILLE H. S.

• Mears, Cooper C.

BERKLEY

BERKLEY H. S.

• Loree, Quinn L.

BEVERLY HILLS

DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

• Alomari, Ameen
• Bazzi, Qassim
• Dyson, Matthew L.
• Gill, Jiya
• Gong, Ada
• Hammoud, Lara
• Hammoud, Maya
• Han, Justin L.
• Ma, Nathan Y.
• Narayan, Harshavardhan
• Nie, Zeheng
• Rahman, Samer A.
• Randolph, McKenzie
• Reddy, Ashrita
• Reddy, Krish T.
• Sun, Ray
• Tian, Haochen
• Wang, Victoria

WYLIE E. GROVES H. S.

• Alrawi, Corinne
• MacWilliams, Henry
• Penzak, Charlisa

BIRMINGHAM

ROEPER SCHOOL

• Gibbs, Noah
• Grover, Neel
• SEAHOLM H. S.
• Sherr, Spencer
• Wisecup, Mercy

BLOOMFIELD HILLS

CRANBROOK KINGSWOOD SCHOOL

• Awad, Marina
• Chan, Chun Hei
• Chang, Andrew
• Chen, Megan
• Chen, Yang
• Gan, Daniella
• Grewal, Armaan
• Jiang, Eric
• Khan, Omar
• Kim, Chloe
• Lee, Jaeyoon
• Liu, Eric
• Ma, Daniel
• Mu, Eric
• Mu, Iris
• Murphy, Madeleine
• Patel, Ameera
• Quinn, Dawson
• Sui, Grace
• Szornyi, Ethan
• Wang, Allan
• Wang, Anna
• Wang, Nicole
• Wei, Haodong
• Xie, Samuel
• Xu, Chengyuan
• Xu, Michelle
• Yuan, Alina
• Zhang, Shaohuan

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

• Bhandarkar, Shrish
• Bottomley, James D.
• Chiew, Mason A.
• Derwartanian, Mher
• Gehlaut, Vihaan
• Graham, Grace C.
• Guduguntla, Aaroosh K.
• Gugneja, Armaan
• Ibraheem, Aafia A.
• Karur, Raghav
• Le, Phuong
• Lewis, Thomas M.
• Linen, Anna K.
• Maridass, Jeeva J.
• Modem, Seshasaiaasrith
• Musharraf, Uzair
• Nguyen, Analie T.
• Ouyang, Joanna
• Pai, Sameer N.
• Park, Brianna
• Prithiviraj, Akshiithi
• Thippireddy, Saanvi R.
• Thomson, Lucy I.
• Turk, Yunis A.
• Vasan, Keerthana
• Yoon, Caitlyn S.

BROTHER RICE H. S.

• Bonus, Joseph
• Kallabat, Ashton

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP

BLOOMFIELD HILLS H. S.

• Doshi, Naisha V.
• Smith, Mayas

BRIDGMAN

BRIDGMAN H. S.

• Bomar, Nora

BRIGHTON

BRIGHTON H. S.

• Hickman, Ari
• Long, Weston
• Mantravadi, Arith

CHARYL STOCKWELL PREPARATORY ACADEMY

• Blaszczynski, Daniel

BYRON CENTER

ZION CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

• Stumph, Caleb

CANTON

CANTON H. S.

• Collins, John T.
• Creem, Reagan K.
• Fisher-Schiff, Kenneth J.
• Gampala, Angelina
• Jalari, Lasya N.
• Jungkuntz, Faith A.
• Manoj, Samendu R.
• Sinaph, Nadia
• Yang, Angela

PLYMOUTH H. S.

• Chen, Anthony
• Gill, Rahuldeep
• Kumar, Aarush I.
• Marabille, Amogh V.
• Patel, Kush
• Rizwan, Hasan

SALEM H. S.

• Ahmed, Deenah
• Ding, Jaden K.
• Kondur, Vedanth Subramanya
• Lievense, Benjamin J.
• Patel, Ruhan
• Sevener, Joshua
• Silverman, Riley
• Srinivasan, Misha
• Szymczak, Parker A.
• Tai, Andrew

CEDAR SPRINGS

CEDAR SPRINGS H. S.

• Hilbert, Thomas

CHELSEA

CHELSEA H. S.

• Van Hoek, Benjamin P.

CLARKSTON

CLARKSTON H. S.

• Hoyle, Elliot
• Miller, Katherine
• Ponce, Joshua

CLINTON TOWNSHIP

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF MACOMB

• DeMoss, Jacob
• Minhas, Talha

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP

WALLED LAKE CENTRAL H. S.

• Fried, Ari N.

WALLED LAKE NORTHERN H. S.

• Rice, Brandon C.

DETROIT

CASS TECHNICAL H. S.

• Dorn, Sebastian

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT H. S.

• Arshad, Shahzad
• Arshad, Shiraz
• Joumaa, Taha

DEXTER

DEXTER H. S.

• Beneteau, Claire
• Buyukbozkirli, Arman
• Schnurstein, Marissa

EAST LANSING

EAST LANSING H. S.

• Bellon, Sophie
• Preisser, Liam
• Robertson, Jonah

ELK RAPIDS

ELK RAPIDS H. S.

• Hibbard, Lucas

FARMINGTON

FARMINGTON H. S.

• Luo, Joshua J.
• Patelu, Sohan R.

FARMINGTON HILLS

NORTH FARMINGTON H. S.

• Barker, Nolan
• Coe, Ani
• Knick, Gina
• Packard, Renata
• Yang, Victoria

FLAT ROCK

WOODHAVEN H. S.

• Kapadia, Yusuf A.

GRAND BLANC

GRAND BLANC COMMUNITY SCHOOL

• Burton, Connor
• Li, Vivian
• Vattipally, Naveen
• Venisetty, Rithvik

GRAND LEDGE

GRAND LEDGE H. S.

• Sells, Alexia
• Singh, Kuljot

GRAND RAPIDS

CATHOLIC CENTRAL H. S.

• Kushner, Samuel

CITY H. S.

• Jansen, Conner Z.
• Pazdernik, Cara
• EAST GRAND RAPIDS H. S.
• Barnes, Alexander
• Chu, Oliver B.
• Deane, Jackson P.
• Sherman, Blake W.
• Woodruff, Nathan E.

FOREST HILLS CENTRAL H. S.

• O’Meara, Gavin
• Srivastava, Siddharth
• Wu, Frey

FOREST HILLS NORTHERN H. S.

• Boyce, Christian
• Gupta, Sara
• Habekovic, Lidija

GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN H. S.

• Ondersma, Isaac
• Ryan, Sean
• VanHorn, Nathanael

HOMESCHOOL / ONLINE SCHOOL

• Zylstra, Caleb

NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN H. S.

• Rathbun, Joseph

WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY

• Adamczak, Ava
• Standish, David

GRANDVILLE

GRANDVILLE H. S.

• Vinoski, Alexander J.

GRAYLING

GRAYLING H. S.

• Bugyi, Alice

GROSSE POINTE FARMS

GROSSE POINTE SOUTH H. S.

• Lancaster, Julian F.
• Neme, Zachary J.
• Sahutske, Eleanor E.

GROSSE POINTE WOODS

UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL

• Romanelli, Teresa

HASLETT

HASLETT H. S.

• Ginter, Neel R.

HILLSDALE

HILLSDALE ACADEMY

• Rahe, James J.

HOLLAND

BLACK RIVER H. S.

• Pilcher, Grant

HOLLAND CHRISTIAN H. S.

• Klamer, Hannah

HOLLAND H. S.

• Lin, Wilson

WEST OTTAWA H. S.

• Honeycutt, Zachary J.
• McCoy, Nathan R.

HOUGHTON

HOUGHTON H. S.

Vendlinski, Catherine

• Wu, Anna

HUDSONVILLE

HUDSONVILLE H. S.

• Rylaarsdam, Camryn M.

INTERLOCHEN

INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY

• Chen, Andrea
• Meyer, Ana

JENISON

JENISON H. S.

• Brechting, Landen C.

KALAMAZOO

HACKETT CATHOLIC PREP

• Cook, Erin

KALAMAZOO CENTRAL H. S.

• Hanson, Alexander

LOY NORRIX H. S.

• Gorman, Harper
• Pavlik, Eliot
• Shockey, Thomas

KENTWOOD

EAST KENTWOOD H. S.

• Bernstein, Elijah M.

KINGSLEY

KINGSLEY AREA H. S.

• Bauer, Anna

LAKE ORION

LAKE ORION H. S.

• Chandra, Dylan

LANSING

LANSING CATHOLIC H. S.

• Chee, Ella

LINDEN

LINDEN H. S.

• Eaton, Alexander J.

LIVONIA

WINSTON CHURCHILL H. S.

• Atherton, Grant
• Bafus, Mackenzie
• Hrecznyj, Alexander
• Khan, Reyhan
• Sharma, Kanav

ADLAI E. STEVENSON H. S.

• Yeghiyan, Gregory

LOWELL

LOWELL H. S.

• Huhn, Anika
• Ponchaud, Griffin

MIDLAND

HERBERT HENRY DOW H. S.

• Chen, Angelina E.
• Gaal, Jonathon T.
• Huang, Louis Z.
• Wang, Ricky

MOUNT PLEASANT

MOUNT PLEASANT H. S.

• Zheng, Kelly

NEW BOSTON

HURON H. S.

• Holbrook, Benjamin J.

NORTH BRANCH

NORTH BRANCH H. S.

• Burack, Logan A.
• Ehardt, John A.

NORTH MUSKEGON

NORTH MUSKEGON H. S.

• Carpenter, Benjamin

NORTHVILLE

NORTHVILLE H. S.

• Alkhalidi, Abdulrahman
• Beloiu, Annabelle
• Beltrame, Alexandra
• Bermingham, Austin
• Challa, Riya
• Chowdhury, Rishi
• Das, Vihaan
• Diaz, Andrea
• Feng, Connor
• Gong, Jiaxuan
• Hebbar, Sriraam
• Hu, Benjamin
• Inamdar, Mihir
• Kandalam, Jishnu
• Karanth, Puneet
• Krishnan, Saamaja
• Kunjur, Sahil
• Lee, Aiden
• Nakajima, Ray
• Narasimhan, Shravya
• Narendra Kumar, Nidhi
• Pandey, Saharsh
• Posam, Shreyas
• Shah, Manav
• Shen, Daniel
• Talcott, Alexis
• Tonshal, Opal
• Venkatesh, Keertana
• Zhang, Ella

NORTON SHORES

WESTERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN H. S.

• Van Bruggen, Meaghan E.

NOVI

DETROIT CATHOLIC CENTRAL H. S.

• Barcelon, Jonah
• Curtis, Christian
• Lal, Krish
• Semp, Austin
• Tisch, Gavin

NOVI H. S.

• Bodas, Saachi
• Chacko, Sophia
• Chenepalli, Sathvik
• Heur, Noelle
• Jeong, Ian
• Katipally, Nidhi
• Noheria, Aarush
• Patil, Viraj
• Ramesh, Sanjana
• Reddy, Eshan
• Tang, Alyssa
• Tauro, David
• Thurman, Ishaan
• Varghese, Ethan Thomas
• Vijayaraja, Arjun
• Xu, Wenhan
• Zhao, Hudson
• Zhu, Samantha

OKEMOS

OKEMOS H. S.

• Cui, Daniel
• Doppalapudi, Sreenidhi
• Kulkarni, Bhargava
• Liu, Aaron Y.
• Mahale, Rishabh
• Naik, Stuti
• Swaminathan, Jayashree
• Tan, Caifei
• Thompson, Mattie
• Tikaria, Bhavya
• Tikaria, Nitya

PINCKNEY

PINCKNEY COMMUNITY H. S.

• Peltier, Griffin J.

PLAINWELL

PLAINWELL H. S.

• Nguyen, Hiro S.

PORTAGE

PORTAGE CENTRAL H. S.

• Fong, Victoria
• Goel, Aanya
• PORTAGE NORTHERN H. S.
• Abdulhak, Maya
• Kusisto, Leah M.
• Tong, Claire

ROCHESTER HILLS

ROCHESTER ADAMS H. S.

• Anderson, Britta
• Arthurs, Aidan
• Chernolutskiy, Mark
• Kim, Choyeon
• Nguyen, Eda
• Ni, Ryan
• Wu, Yueyang
• Xie, Anthony
• Zhang, Aiden

ROCHESTER H. S.

• Edwards, Samuel
• Kumar, Ananya
• Lyons, Greta
• Phillips, Elizabeth

ROCHESTER HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

• Wang, Jamie D.

STONEY CREEK H. S.

• Sheth, Siddh

ROCKFORD

ROCKFORD H. S.

• Saur, Alison K.

SAGINAW

SAGINAW ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMY

• Bhola, Vedha G.
• Tilot, Lucas A.

SALINE

SALINE H. S.

• DeSouza-Etzion, Daniel
• Lizotte, Henry
• Nixon, Avery
• Sparks, Caden
• Sushenko, Regina
• Zaksek, Elijah

SHELBY TOWNSHIP

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER H. S.

• Luckino, Jack
• Murphy, John

SOUTH LYON

SOUTH LYON EAST H. S.

• Bergeron, Sophia R.
• Parasuraman, Saghana
• SOUTH LYON H. S.
• Birdyshaw, Lilah D.
• Borkowski, Dino L.

SOUTHFIELD

SOUTHFIELD CHRISTIAN H. S.

• Abazi, Sarah
• Stevens, Joseph

ST. CLAIR

ST. CLAIR H. S.

• Zhang, Jackson

ST. JOHNS

ST. JOHNS H. S.

• Hiner, Nicolas M.

ST. JOSEPH

ST. JOSEPH H. S.

• Andrade, Henrique
• Rusbasan, Aleksandra

STERLING HEIGHTS

HENRY FORD II H. S.

• Edmunds, Benjamin
• Philip, Alexandria

ADLAI E. STEVENSON H. S.

• Buzdugan, Daniel

STEVENSVILLE

LAKESHORE H. S.

• Beaufils, Celia
• Thomas, Garrett

TRAVERSE CITY

TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL H. S.

• Lijewski-Lee, Arthur
• Potrafke, Alex
• Shev, Lillian
• Taylor, Helly

TROY

ATHENS H. S.

• Raja, Tejaaswin
• Ravoor, Sahas
• Shrivastav, Ashwin

TROY H. S.

• Anil Kumar, Hasmita
• Ateeq, Fatima
• Batke, Matthew
• Darafzin, Sumehra
• Das, Aarush
• Dighrasker, Arnav
• Dong, William
• Fargaly, Lana
• Ganesh, Atul
• Goswami, Aryan
• Gupta, Anusha
• Ha, Yeonjoon
• Hossain, Kashifah
• Kim, Ryeo-Won
• Kompelli, Shlagha
• Kulkarni, Aarush
• Kumar, Iniya
• Lattupalli, Ria
• Lee, Seungheon
• Li, Sophia
• Losey, Abigail
• Ma, Jing-Yi
• Mathew, Joel
• Molenda, Michael
• Neelakantan, Pratyush
• Parab, Aayushi
• Park, Kanghee
• Prabhu, Sanjana
• Prakash, Kristin
• Ramini, Hansini
• Sovani, Divya
• Sujith Nair, Chinmay
• Triculescu, Julia
• Vijayasegar, Matthew
• Weerakoon, Akein
• Wu, Anthony
• Xin, Casey
• Xu, Jonathan
• Yang, Alice
• Zhang, Angela
• Zhou, Eric

UTICA

UTICA H. S.

• Gorlewski, Nolan
• Hassan, Marwan
• Oommen, Michael

WALLED LAKE

WALLED LAKE WESTERN H. S.

• Rhee, Aiden S.

WEST BLOOMFIELD

WEST BLOOMFIELD H. S.

• Kamath, Neel R.

WHITEHALL

WHITEHALL H. S.

• Cook, Cameron

YPSILANTI

GLOBAL EDUCATION EXCELLENCE COMPASS ACADEMY

• Kashif, Saad M.

WASHTENAW INTERNATIONAL H. S.

• Ahmed, Haashir
• Akhilurrahman, Abdarrahim B.
• Akhoon, Aydin A.
• Anand, Hasini
• Dastidar, Anaya
• Devabhaktuni, Rahul
• McCleery, Nolan
• Mishra, Saanvi
• Orlyanchik, Noa F.
• Peihe, Benjamin
• Srivastava, Yash
• Tallapally, Sai
• Xiong, Isabel Z.

ZEELAND

ZEELAND WEST H. S.

• Le, Joseph