Semifinalists: 2018 National MAYBECK H. S.

720 Pavlov, Charlotte

CERRITOS
CERRITOS H. S.
999 Chang, Fu-Tung
Merit Scholarship Program ST. MARY'S COLLEGE H. S.
185 Martin, Julia E.
456 Chea, Peter
947 Suh, Angelina

BEVERLY HILLS WHITNEY H. S.

CALIFORNIA
AGOURA HILLS
AGOURA H. S.
742 Derensteyn, Max
451 Harris, Maya F.
450 Kabir, Zahin S.
740 Palmer-Toy, Bryce W.
457 Prieger, Alexander
ALAMEDA
ALAMEDA H. S.
451 Hartigan, Calder J.
202 Huang, Jiahao
600 Nguyen, Andrew D.
300 Nguyen, Anh P.
ENCINAL H. S.
900 Arneson, Anneli H.
ALBANY
ALBANY H. S.
999 Chen, Nuo
999 Lee, Philip C.
999 Rees-Hill, Joseph A.
302 Tegland, Liam
999 Yong, Simon
ALHAMBRA
ALHAMBRA H. S.
161 Cheng, Celine
452 Tan, Sophia
MARK KEPPEL H. S.
160 Chang, Kenny
940 Ji, Vivian
303 Ng, Nicholas
771 Ogawa-Monroe, Kailey K.
450 Pitugnarongphor, Kaitlyn
ALISO VIEJO
ALISO NIGUEL H. S.
160 Bhaskar, Anushka
160 Deming, Rachel A.
830 Hughes, Michael C.
950 Leish, Eliana G.
712 Ryoo, Jemin
ANAHEIM
CANYON H. S.
710 Krishan, Shefali J.
303 Woodson, Connor M.
600 Yook, Kunseo
450 Yuan, Zachary Z.
CORNELIA CONNELLY SCHOOL
162 Borbridge, Amy E.
FAIRMONT PREPARATORY
ACADEMY
720 Gibbs, Ellie N.
KATELLA H. S.
160 Dollins, Forrest
SERVITE H. S.
907 Aimone, Patrick O.
ARCADIA
ARCADIA H. S.
450 Chen, Ethan
303 Chen, Justin B.
204 Chen, Liang-Wei
742 Chen, Sean
904 Ching, Conner J.
185 Fang, Andrea C.
450 Figueira, Nicholas A.
628 Gu, Xinyang
204 Ho, Daniel A.
710 Lee, Frank K.
907 Li, Derek
200 Shin, James J.
900 Togelang, Arianna
185 Wang, Regina L.
302 Yao, Elyse
200 Yeh, Benjamin P.
270 Ying, Xiaoke
463 Yuan, Warren
740 Zeng, Edward W.
170 Zhao, Louis
BREA
ARROYO GRANDE
ARROYO GRANDE H. S.
999 Egg, Erika E.
160 Lane, Chloe S.
BRENTWOOD
ATHERTON
MENLO - ATHERTON H. S.
791 Cole, Erin E.
400 Dewey, Emma Q.
451 Furman, Zachary D.
870 Gage, Kelsey M.
162 Galhotra, Sajel R. BURBANK
175 Iyer, Christopher S.
302 Kao, Patrick D.
999 Liu, Jerry W.
950 Manin, Nikita D.
160 McCutcheon, Kelley R.
450 Oesterling, Alexander X.
999 Sehgal, Maanek S.
450 Sullivan, James M.
999 Tan, Andrew J.
164 Trabosh, Narisa C. CALABASAS
MENLO SCHOOL
830 Abadi, Sebastien N.
999 Dollinger, Cole
999 Dumanian, Grant
999 Howard, Rachel D.
907 Jain, Sabrina S.
303 Kennedy, Connor
000 Leschly, Bo
906 Tam, Tiffany L. CAMARILLO
999 Tung, Hwai-Liang
000 Weingart, John R.
303 Wong, Anna J.
999 Yang, Thomas
999 Young, Grace N.
CAMPBELL
628 Zheng, Andrew
SACRED HEART CARLSBAD
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
303 Connors, Emma M.
999 Herden, Luca
999 Ho, Madeline C.
500 Thompson, Robert W.
BAKERSFIELD
INDEPENDENCE H. S.
450 Haviland, Andrew J.
STOCKDALE H. S.
457 Alphonso, Warren B.
160 Gogulapati, Anusha A.
461 Kuchakulla, Niteesh
BELLFLOWER
ST. JOHN BOSCO H. S.
451 McDermott, Mark
BELMONT CARMEL
CARLMONT H. S.
185 Boone, Kiran
999 Chong, David
906 Felton, Casey
200 Lu, Aaron
943 Masini, Amanda CARPINTERIA
770 Pham, Hanalei
200 VanArsdel, Zane
303 Vendrow, Edward B.
742 Zhang, Sammy CARSON
BENICIA
BENICIA H. S.
302 Beyer, Madeline C.
160 LeGro, Ethan CASTRO VALLEY
BERKELEY
BERKELEY H. S.
843 Adams, Jasper
999 Klop-Packel, Nory G.
940 Knowles, Leda A.
450 McDonald, Zoe
BEVERLY HILLS H. S. 450 Hyun, Michelle M.
171 Artal, Jonathan M. 836 Raghavan, Sharan
999 Harward, Brian D.
454 Harward, Jason M.
185 Thenappan, Bala S.
600 Kim, Jae Yi
CHATSWORTH
CHATSWORTH H. S.
162 Lee, Taylor
BREA OLINDA H. S.
000 Mishra, Gaurav
SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL
457 Wellen, Randall L.
999 Reicher, Benjamin M.
HERITAGE H. S. CHICO
520 Nam, Jasmine H. PLEASANT VALLEY H. S.
200 Bridgnell, Olivia A.
LIBERTY H. S.
400 Frits, Maya J. CHINO HILLS
RUBEN S. AYALA H. S.
600 Kim, Soohong
BURBANK H. S. 456 Rodriguez, Joshua
300 Czeranko, Adam James 170 Senthilkumar, Vigneshwar
300 Nhan, Aaron 628 Shah, Reeya
870 Yang, Melissa
300 Yee, John S. CHINO HILLS H. S.
605 Hasib, Maham
JOHN BURROUGHS H. S. 454 Jeeda, Rashi
451 Tumkur Mahesh, Prajwal
CHULA VISTA
EASTLAKE H. S.
CALABASAS H. S. 170 Colarusso, Anthony D.
000 Gupta, Vidish 163 Perez, Alejandro D.
000 Moyal, Eden
000 Nguyen, Nhat OTAY RANCH H. S.
303 White, Nathan L.
450 Hoh, Brian H.
VIEWPOINT SCHOOL
742 Fang, Yiming
CLAREMONT
CLAREMONT H. S.
520 Jung, Shane S.
450 Junisbai, Sanjar N.
ADOLFO CAMARILLO H. S.
000 Moore, Miriam L.
450 Yuan, Jessica
999 Moore, Simon L.
160 Park, Abraham S.
467 Tran, Eric
WESTMONT H. S. 907 Welty, Eliza T.
160 Zhang, Kelly 450 Wu, Elizabeth
VIVIAN WEBB SCHOOL
CARLSBAD H. S.
000 Jiang, Anne
904 Li, Anthony 000 Newman, Georgia A.
LA COSTA CANYON H. S.
999 Parr, Kevin
WEBB SCHOOL OF CALIFORNIA
000 Wei, Oren
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL
000 Bjornstad, Patrick T. CLOVIS
000 Causey, Benjamin P. CLOVIS H. S.
000 Chen, Eric N. 302 Adisasmito-Smith, Narayana
000 Ning, Derek 430 Siechert, Jennifer L.
000 Schell, Tiffany
000 Yu, Connie B. HOMESCHOOL
161 Nye, Grace P.
SAGE CREEK H. S.
999 Drury, Brendan M. COLFAX
461 Lewis, Charles R. COLFAX H. S.
301 Li, Amy 204 Vereyken, William M.
CONCORD
CARMEL H. S. CLAYTON VALLEY CHARTER H. S.
160 Gray, Ihlara 455 Pearson, Samuel J.
451 Hendricks, Quincy 451 Schoffstall, Logan C.
450 Zacek, Filip M.
CORONA
CENTENNIAL H. S.
CATE SCHOOL
166 Beckwith, Sabrina W.
000 MacFarlane, Ian P.
SANTIAGO H. S.
160 Hamilton, Madison H.
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF
162 Mitra, Shameek
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
999 Rhodes, Tyler M.
999 Pela, Tavio A.
CORONADO
CASTRO VALLEY H. S. CORONADO H. S.
000 Bhat, Anjali C. 000 Leonard, Stephen M.
970 Cady, Julia M. 000 Zaller, Isabel R.
870 Chiu, Vivian H.
999 Fung, Lauren A. COVINA
628 Li, Kaitlyn J. CHARTER OAK H. S.
999 Revina, Sofia 160 Wang, Stephanie C.

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California (continued)
CULVER CITY
CULVER CITY H. S.
999 Winslow, Eden J.
CUPERTINO
CUPERTINO H. S.
000 Ayalur, Abhinav V.
000 Balakrishnan, Anoop
000 Elumalai, Nila N.
000 Gee, Caroline
000 Gopu, Ria S.
000 Gurtu, Nandit
000 Li, Jasmine
000 Liang, Andrew S.
000 Liang, Benjamin S.
000 Liao, Yi Jou
000 Nadkarni, Pooja
000 Narveuar, Anushka S.
000 Otsu, Seiji
000 Ranade, Prajakta
000 Sanghavi, Saagar J.
000 Santurkar, Ishani
000 Sridhar, Sneha
000 Sripathy, Arjun
000 Sun, Jeffrey
000 Vichare, Sohan
204 Wang, Selena
000 Yang, Evelyn T.
000 Zeng, Amy Z.
000 Zhang, Cindy X.
000 Zhang, Xinyi
HOMESCHOOL
000 Chi, Ethan
HOMESTEAD H. S.
303 Chen, Michael Z.
999 Gray, Alistair J.
450 Hasser, Rebecca E.
303 Haymore, Rebecca S.
960 Kim, Sarah
303 Lee, Kaitlyn
450 Li, Vincent
120 Liu, Erica
900 Ning, Orion S.
454 Shah, Sarthak V.
461 Srinivasan, Rithika
000 Su, Evan H.
000 Tarn, Natalie
302 Wang, Kevin J.
999 Wang, Zhifei
999 Wang, Zhixue
303 Wu, Ryan
000 Yu, Christine
000 Zhou, Hao
000 Zhu, Rebecca
MONTA VISTA H. S.
160 Banerjee, Rakhi
999 Bhise, Rucha
170 Chang, Loren H.
553 Chen, Nicholas W.
300 Chiang, Vivian
303 Duan, Carolyn
301 Evans, Dylan M.
457 George, Nihal
870 Gopinath, Advith
999 Haines, Joshua M.
303 Haldar, Kinjal
946 Hsieh, Matthew L.
300 Hsu, William
303 Huang, Brian B.
204 Huang, Nancy C.
163 Jiang, Helen
214 Kathuria, Aurum
303 Khanna, Nikash N.
303 Kollareddy, Anisha
999 Kotesova, Hanna
161 Kwan, Michelle
628 Lalwani, Kriti
303 Lee, Min Hoo
160 Lee, Theresa S.
303 Lian, Sophie J.
164 Luo, Grace
999 Mahajan, Amita
999 Merchia, Atul R.
999 Qi, Grace
999 Ramachandran, Anika A.
303 Ray, Joy
160 Reddy, Priya
999 Ren, William Y.
301 Saha, Srijani
303 Shanker, Nikhita Z.
628 Shen, Jason X. 600 Koshatwar, Navyada HENRY J. KAISER H. S.
500 Sud, Bhavna 907 Phatak, Ira 450 Heyer, Amandeep
170 Suh, Samuel 450 Shah, Vade
161 Syskine, Daria V. 303 Singh, Jaiveer FOUNTAIN VALLEY
600 Tammineni, Himaja 303 Tang, Eric FOUNTAIN VALLEY H. S.
771 Tang, Eric A. 843 Wang, Cory 456 Keslerwest, Lee R.
303 Upadhyay, Rishi 450 Liu, Jane J.
303 Wan, Michael HOMESCHOOL 161 Nguyen, Kendrick T.
300 Wang, Jasmine E. 522 Gwozdz, Daphne R.
209 Wu, Joyce
FREMONT
999 Yang, Forest EASTVALE AMERICAN H. S.
161 Yang, Gina Y. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT H. S. 160 Ahmed, Ifrah
457 Yang, Michael 740 He, Lucas J. 628 Arunkumar, Radhakrishnan
999 Yang, Steve 300 Takahari, Lily 500 Chen, Aaron W.
628 Zhang, Claire 894 Chen, Yupei
999 Zheng, Cindy R. EL CAJON 628 Chigullapally, Nikita
999 Zhou, Grace VALHALLA H. S. 742 Chiplunkar, Shardul A.
999 Zou, Spencer Y. 628 Albers, Alexandra N. 742 Huang, Eric
164 Huang, Joshua P.
CYPRESS EL CERRITO 600 Jamil, Zarraf
CYPRESS H. S. EL CERRITO H. S. 600 Lam, Christina
160 Yik, Jason L. 999 Walker, Julia C. 303 Liu, Elise Y.
999 Morimoto, Isabella P.
OXFORD ACADEMY EL DORADO HILLS 833 Nagarajan, Pranav
204 Chao, Jake R. OAK RIDGE H. S. 459 Nakka, Nikhil V.
999 Chordia, Siddhi S. 833 Asperheim, Margaret 999 Parameswaran, Pranav
600 Fatalla, Jacob Adriel G. 630 Bergstrom, Johanna J. 303 Prakash, Rohan
214 Hyun, Aeji 162 Bergstrom, Lorena 166 Sayyid, Sana A.
843 Mitra, Sambodh 999 Gopalan, Naveen 773 Shah, Aneri P.
600 Moon, Joshua S. 300 Huang, Jacob J. 501 Sharma, Charul
999 Veys, Yasmin S. 600 McWhorter, Neil S. 836 Sharma, Vibh A.
628 Xie, Justin 303 Singh, Paramjot
DALY CITY 450 Wang, Vanessa
SUMMIT SHASTA EL MONTE 000 Yu, Jessica
160 Lam, Brian 946 Zachariah, Isaiah A.
ARROYO H. S.
303 Nguyen, Michael W. 170 Zhao, Angela
DANA POINT 450 Zhou, Alexander Y.
DANA HILLS H. S. EL SEGUNDO 300 Zia, Taroob
836 Ivory, Lauren N.
VISTAMAR SCHOOL
162 Jafar, Yousif HOMESCHOOL
303 Ito-Fisher, Eamon
204 Shobar, Grant S. 000 Shah, Shalin
999 Stenson, Aidan C.
DANVILLE ELK GROVE IRVINGTON H. S.
MONTE VISTA H. S. 200 Agarwal, Sourish
904 Bronshteyn, Jacob
COSUMNES OAKS H. S.
999 Cruz, Antone K. 999 Akkiraju, Amala
843 Chun, Nicholas 160 Bali, Manya
904 Smith, Seth T.
451 Coleman, Austin 501 Bansal, Siddharth
771 Couture, Natalie S. 161 Bhat, Rishabh N.
520 Hou, Elizabeth
FRANKLIN H. S.
200 Hoang, Brandy T. 454 Cheng, Claire
904 Huang, Timothy Y. 450 Cheng, Jeffrey
451 Lewis, Nathaniel R.
162 Ren, Diana S. 999 Cheng, Richard H.
303 Parmar, Jupinder S.
830 Sharpe, Katherine E. 164 Cherukuri, Abhinav C.
900 Su, Tercel 628 Darukhanawalla, Malcolm
170 Vuong, Ivan ENCINITAS
999 Guo, Rachel
722 Zheng, Ruoyang THE GRAUER SCHOOL
303 Hajela, Rohan
999 Zhou, Eric 999 Matthews, Katherine N.
450 Handa, Satyak
619 Hsiao, Winnie Y.
SAN RAMON VALLEY H. S. SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY
451 Huang, Christina J.
302 Steele, Jasmine 455 Bland, Jacob
160 Huang, Qing
303 Chockalingam, Neesha
843 Jang, Bryan W.
DAVIS 204 McQuarrie, Michael
204 Jayaraman, Rachana
DAVIS H. S. 740 Neyer, Klaus
303 Kasar, Rohith
600 Chao, Daniel 630 Paxton, Natalie
209 Khurana, Rishabh
833 Duffy, Laura Rae K. 466 Veitas, Rokas
200 Lakos, Monika R.
450 Ge, Richard 600 Zhu, Sophia
870 Liu, May S.
999 Hasson-Snell, James A. 999 Liu, Sabrina
000 Hu, Albert L. ESCONDIDO 467 Mayilvahanan, Sarvesh
160 Keller, Jeffrey B. CLASSICAL ACADEMY H. S. 160 Melo, Lucas A.
450 McSorley, Euan J. 254 Howard, Rachel L. 999 Pareek, Rachit
303 Stachowicz, Kyle 185 Patel, Naman R.
454 Willgohs, Kersten M. ETIWANDA 999 Prusty, Ayushi
907 Young, Caleb P. ETIWANDA H. S. 161 Qadeer, Hamza A.
300 Bui, Daryl Y. 450 Rbakhshandeh, Abbas
DIAMOND BAR 457 Reddy, Pramith T.
DIAMOND BAR H. S. FAIR OAKS 303 Rohatgi, Vanya
628 Cao, Ruiyan BELLA VISTA H. S. 600 Sanghavi, Nikita
454 Chang, Brian 457 King, Jordan R. 000 Saxena, Sahil
302 Cheng, Alex 160 Low, Hayden K. 000 Shah, Jwalin
836 Ho, Matthew I. 185 Shah, Ujashi J.
830 Jeon, Sungjoo FOLSOM 999 Shen, Stacy
553 Lee, Alvin FOLSOM H. S. 000 Singhal, Rijul
870 Peng, Eric 999 Adoni, Anish 160 Wang, Eileen
999 Shao, William 456 Becerra, Adrian 000 Wang, Judy
700 Song, Crystal 303 Cheng, Yu-Hsi 000 Wang, Nancy
946 Xia, Amy 301 Ediga Lakhamsani, Rithwik 940 Wu, Yuntong
700 Graening, Olivia N. 000 Xiong, Daniel
DOWNEY 999 Haase, Andrew M. 999 Yoo, William D.
DOWNEY H. S. 457 Hamilton, Preston 000 Yu, Amy
999 Patel, Aarti 999 Zang, Zhenyi
VISTA DEL LAGO H. S. 999 Zhang, Cindy Y.
DUBLIN 999 Ajudia, Raj K. 000 Zhao, Dezheng
DUBLIN H. S. 162 Jain, Amish 773 Zhu, Tyler Y.
303 Balajee, Smruthi 999 Rexin, Teresa M.
170 Feemster, Arianna MISSION SAN JOSE H. S.
450 Gavrilova, Eugenia K. FONTANA 000 Bai, Iris
999 Hong, Da Hyun HOMESCHOOL 000 Baratam, Rithvik
300 Kim, Abigale K. 457 Quijano, Jaison T. 946 Bhadoria, Himanshu
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999 Joshi, Aadit S. GRANADA HILLS IRVINE H. S.
California (continued) 999 Lacaze, Katherine D. GRANADA HILLS CHARTER H. S. 302 Chang, Joshua I.
000 Morkved, Olivia G. 201 Glass, Rachel H. 600 Hess, Clara M.
303 Sheth, Sohum R. 742 Kavcioglu, Alexander J. 628 Huang, Albert
303 Chang, Adam S. 836 Than, Helen 000 Kwon, Tyler H. 160 Ma, Michelle
218 Lin, Daniel 300 Patel, Avadh S.
161 Chang, Austin B.
FRESNO 602 Mohan, Lisha 450 Song, Kathleen A.
160 Chang, Emily
214 Chang, Emma CLOVIS NORTH H. S. 999 Springer, Joseph A.
200 Chawla, Ishika S. 950 Haselhorst, Christopher NORTHWOOD H. S.
303 Chawla, Sanil 830 Menz, Zachary R. HACIENDA HEIGHTS 303 Chang, Robert F.
450 Chu, Albert 950 Shin, Katherine Y. HOMESCHOOL 999 Choi, Calista S.
999 Chuang, Gabriel T. 000 Kong, Ethan J. 450 Dai, Yutong
999 Dong, Mina SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL H. S. 904 Fu, Irene L.
628 Dong, Samantha C. 160 Monreal, Patrick J. LOS ALTOS H. S. 160 Gonik, Yulia M.
209 Fang, Wenhan 204 Lin, Chia Hung 204 Guo, Amy C.
999 Feng, Tiffany FULLERTON 462 Huang, Maggie
303 Fok, Emily FULLERTON UNION H. S. GLEN A. WILSON H. S. 999 Kim, Aaron
000 Gaggar, Arpita 740 Yang, Yale 250 Kuang, Victoria 461 Kim, Michelle
467 Gaggar, Ayush 000 Kung, Aidan H. 451 Kulkarni, Shubham
450 Ge, Carolyn SUNNY HILLS H. S. 456 Lee, Alvin 870 Lee, Andres S.
999 Gupta, Savvy 628 Jung, Joshua M. 904 Li, Claire
999 Hahn, Ryan P. 200 Kwon, Jessica C. HAYWARD 999 Li, Zelong
303 Hegde, Chandan 628 Pak, Irene J. MOREAU CATHOLIC H. S. 455 Moh, Jasper
303 Hou, David Y. 457 Turaga, Pranav V. 520 Pak, Sarah
000 Huang, Colby Y. TROY H. S. 300 Palepu, Vineet
303 Jiang, Grace 454 Bostic, William K. HILLSBOROUGH 773 Pandey, Kushagra
740 Jin, Sylvia W. 999 Branson, Ashley E. CRYSTAL SPRINGS 457 Park, Byeongmin
303 Kan, Andrew Z. 454 Cai, Patrick Y. UPLANDS SCHOOL 454 Parthasarathy, Nitya
160 Kannan, Anupama 467 Chan, Lydia 000 Fuchs, Eliana L. 168 Sharma, Geetanshi
160 Kinoshita, Andrew T. 999 Chap, Brian 000 Jian, Darren 459 Tang, Matthew G.
303 Kiran, Prajna 303 Chen, Andrew W. 000 Kamath, Anika A. 970 Wang, Mitchell
904 Kodnani, Devesh R. 455 Chen, Austin 000 Levy, Gabrielle L. 164 Yan, Maggie C.
628 Lee, Celina C. 999 Chen, Jessica S. 000 Rao, Partha S. 164 Yu, Serena
501 Li, Albert H. 162 Chen, Ryan M. 000 Ruehl, Elizabeth 166 Zhou, Harvey
602 Li, Eric 628 Chiu, Tien 000 Yu, Wiley 455 Zietz, Elizabeth
999 Li, Felisha A. 164 Dickson, Kelly 000 Zheng, Rachel
450 Liew, Haesung 710 Fan, Ashley
600 Lim, Athena L. TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY
303 Flores, Jared C. HOLLISTER DAY SCHOOL
164 Lim, Dylan 160 Han, Ji Yun SAN BENITO H. S.
722 Lin, Melody 451 Veksler, Avigdor
836 Hu, Jasper Y. 999 Rosette, Aeja K.
000 Lin, Robert 678 Jang, Justin S.
450 Lin, Yvette Y. 454 Jang, MiHyun UNIVERSITY H. S.
999 Liu, Joanna Y. HUNTINGTON BEACH
162 Kang, Kaylee Y. EDISON H. S. 218 Ahn, Jiwon
303 Liu, Richard 466 Kao, Michael 628 Bota, Peter G.
628 Blatt, Megan K.
200 Lu, Angela 160 Kim, Timothy J. 162 Chang, Alison J.
162 Phan, Brian C.
164 Luu, Minnie 628 Kwon, Ah-Yeon 999 Chen, Phil H.
459 Muslim, Arbaaz 520 Lee, Christopher 451 Cheng, Justin
160 Ng, Michelle HUNTINGTON BEACH H. S.
466 Lee, Michelle 185 Choi, Baek Gyu
454 Nguyen, Andrew H. 450 Sakamoto, Jessica M.
843 Lee, Nicholas Z. 999 Choi, Minu
700 Park, Julia 450 Suzuki, Akira
999 Li, Timothy H. 999 Chow, Isabelle
628 Patel, Avi C. 459 Valenta, Claudia
628 Lin, Elaine 710 Cranston, Dillon
450 Pi, Anna 450 Wiley, Nicholas D.
162 Loh, Sharleen Y. 999 Dhindsa, Hartejas
628 Ramesh, Ashish 999 Lu, Kathy 627 Ding, Eirene
303 Ramsundar, Aarthi MARINA H. S. 300 Fan, Yuchen
454 Mechem, Vanessa J.
628 Reddy, Akhil T. 168 Conroy, Kaitlin M. 000 Garg, Anita
832 Nguyen, Andrew K.
999 Ross, Vivian 451 Paine, Mark B. 550 Giblin, Laurel A.
628 Sakleshpur, Sonia 161 Park, Christine
OCEAN VIEW H. S. 000 Guo, Shiyuan
450 Shih, Sabrina J. 467 Lee, Christopher 300 Hilby, Craig
999 Pau, Allen
000 Singh, Lavanya 185 Razi, Riyaz S. 605 Kong, Linghao
160 Sivakumar, Gautham 160 Ro, Hannah H. INDIO 450 Kozlowski, Patryk T.
000 Smith, Avery J. 303 Sun, Austin J. SHADOW HILLS H. S. 600 Lee, Juwon
999 Song, Michelle C. 300 Wang, Regina Z. 000 Wyman, Nicholas E. 000 Li, Albert Y.
773 Su, Crystal B. 160 Wang, Sean 000 Liu, Lucy L.
628 Su, Vivian 162 Wang, William S. IRVINE 000 Majumder, Asmita
999 Suresh, Adithya 167 Xu, Sherry Y. ARNOLD O. BECKMAN H. S. 948 McPhie, Emily
999 Swarnakar, Ankush 466 Yi, Joon-Soo J. 000 Biswas, Pradyun 450 Mitchell, Audrey E.
999 Teng, Emily 628 Zhou, Jeffrey 000 Cai, Angela 161 Patel, Anushi Y.
600 Trivedi, Aditya 000 Chen, Erik 999 Patel, Ishana
999 Tsai, Jolene GARDEN GROVE 000 Chu, Brian 602 Sharma, Neal N.
000 Tseng, Alexander BOLSA GRANDE H. S. 000 Du, Sara 200 Shin, Yong Jun
843 Vien, Michael H. 467 Ho, Long H. 000 Gerchick, Darren 457 Sun, Dylan
999 Vuppaladhadiam, Lahari 000 Hajali, Patrick 907 Sun, Kexin C.
000 Wadhwa, Anna 000 Hyung, Seeun 999 Wong, Jessica
Wang, Alana H. PACIFICA H. S.
171 000 Kim, Lucas 000 Zhang, Elaine Y.
742 Gao, Lynn M.
000 Wang, Andre Y. 000 Lee, Erica 000 Zhao, Ashley
302 Hsueh, Jerlene
999 Wang, Helen 000 Murray, Daniel 000 Zhao, Yun
467 Stevens, Ryan
999 Wang, Joyce 000 Nguyen, Britney
450 Wang, Michael Y. 000 Pan, Jennifer
999 Wu, Brendan GILROY 000 Park, Grace
WOODBRIDGE H. S.
Wu, Derek DR. T. J. OWENS GILROY EARLY 629 Chang, Elizabeth P.
164 000 Pham, Elaine
Wu, Kevin COLLEGE ACADEMY 160 Chang, Ryan N.
000 000 Saini, Rajan
Wu, Max C. 600 Badoni, Mayoli 712 Chatterjee, Shreya
999 000 Seo, Minji
Xiong, Xinle 461 Lakdawala, Sanaaya 999 Chong, Lindsay H.
843 000 Shi, Marva
Yao, John 830 Fisher, Natali
999 000 Suresh, Aditya
Yin, Raymond R. GLENDALE 628 Kim, Iyoung E.
000 000 Tang, Orion
Yu, Xiao GLENDALE H. S. 451 Kliman, Peter
999 000 Teng, Sarah
Yuan, Cindy 450 Peralta, Robert N. 520 Koh, Lauren
999 000 Tran, Tuong-Minh
Yung, Claire H. 602 Le, Dustin N.
836 000 Weaver, Tristan
Zhang, Emmanuelle Z. GLENDORA 303 Lee, Jefferson K.
000 000 Wong, Jason
Zhang, Michelle H. GLENDORA H. S. 999 Lu, Selena J.
628 000 Wu, Ziyi
Zhou, Chenxing 303 Wang, Brandon 000 Park, Hannah
999 000 Xu, Michelle
301 Zhou, Chenyu 162 Park, Janice H.
303 Tong, William X.
GOLETA CREAN LUTHERAN H. S.
WASHINGTON H. S. DOS PUEBLOS H. S. 628 Liu, Danielle
628 Chu, Rachel K. 897 Henrie, Maxwell X. KENTFIELD
170 Gunady, Ella 999 Pan, Francis Y. HOMESCHOOL MARIN CATHOLIC H. S.
461 Ho, Christopher 160 Roney, James 121 McBeath, Lily C. 160 Freda, Kate

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California (continued)
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE
FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
303 Ashworth, Brendan M.
900 Chang, Suha
252 Krishnakumar, Jayasri
600 Lalwani, Ria
628 Le, Jonathan
000 Oakes, Conrad G.
000 Poole, Sunay H.
454 Turner, Catherine V.
LA CANADA H. S.
600 Aron, Arjun
946 Backer-Peral, Veronica
740 Hu, Yiyin
629 Lee, Erica J.
999 Menemenlis, Christos
999 Min, Harrison B.
999 Northrop, Blake
741 Randolph, Matthew C.
907 Suk, Averi D.
250 Wu, Cora J.
ST. FRANCIS H. S.
999 Gould, Nicholas P.
LA CRESCENTA
CLARK MAGNET H. S.
160 Krkasharian, Lilit L.
CRESCENTA VALLEY H. S.
999 Bayard, Alexandra A.
999 Bhadha, Zerxes R.
450 Hamkins, Kiran S.
303 Jeon, William H.
303 Kang, Joyce J.
870 Lee, Su A.
160 Li, Miranda
200 Park, Kevin S.
870 Ramos, Francisco N.
467 Rowe, Kevin V.
946 Wang, Justin K.
LA HABRA
SONORA H. S.
185 Suh, Hanna
LA JOLLA
THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL
000 Chang, Liam J.
000 Coats, Claire G.
000 Deokule, Simran S.
000 Fan, Valerie A.
000 Isaacson, Loren A.
000 Kim, Na Yeon
000 Kim, Naomi
000 Kimijima-Dennemeyer, Rita M.
000 Peng, Evan D.
000 Shi, Yuxin
000 Tang, Veronica J.
000 Tian, William S.
000 Wang, David G.
LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
999 Fogler, Truman D.
LA JOLLA H. S.
161 Aalaei, Sahra M.
628 Backlund, Alexandra H.
712 Deng, Samantha X.
160 Dessert, Grace E.
999 Dorst, William J.
204 Duong, Sabrina
302 Hu, Hannah
907 Leonard, Max H.
160 Leone, Madison R.
300 Lin, Cindy
160 Liu, Hudson
302 Passananti, Joyce E.
900 Raj-Silverman, Isha S.
628 Tsai, Audrey E.
LA MESA
HOMESCHOOL
522 Simon, Jessica E.
LA MIRADA
LA MIRADA H. S.
999 Kim, Daniel J.
LA VERNE BRENTWOOD SCHOOL 200 Zhou, Hongxiao
BONITA H. S. 999 Ansell, Nathan 467 Zhu, Eric M.
303 Woo, Justin 999 Bookin, Chase L.
450 Liebeskind, Alexander MILPITAS
LAFAYETTE 303 Mendelson, Jonathan D. MILPITAS H. S.
303 Bui, Phi-Long N.
ACALANES H. S.
999 Fang-Horvath, Hallie ALEXANDER HAMILTON H. S. 628 Chan, Ivan
999 Fang-Horvath, Sierra S. 943 Raanan, Benjamin S. 999 Chang, Isaac E.
450 Kalil, Madeline 303 Cho, Brandon H.
742 Mudgett, Malia F. LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR 628 Do, Hope A.
160 Yates, Martha A. ENRICHED STUDIES 843 Seok, Simwon
999 Avliyakulov, Murad 303 Shrotriya, Samik
BENTLEY SCHOOL 999 Basu, Henry S. 455 Su, Lawrence
833 DeVries, Kaitlin 451 Heard, Samuel D.
970 Hong, Yeram MISSION VIEJO
LAGUNA BEACH 833 Robertson, Connor J. CAPISTRANO VALLEY H. S.
LAGUNA BEACH H. S. 461 Dewing, Jonah
LOYOLA H. S. 200 Liu, Michelle
906 Hoffs, Charlotte T.
303 Cox, Stephen O. 160 Yang, Elisa
999 Keyser, Andrew J.
743 Dennis, Jeremiah J.
907 Ravenna, Joseph
907 Donohoe, Benjamin R. TRABUCO HILLS H. S.
450 Sharp, Benjamin R.
451 Kendall, Jackson W. 455 Akers, Karina L.
999 McDonald, Nicholas P. 300 Bao, Darren K.
LAKE FOREST
EL TORO H. S. 303 Myers, Christopher T. 710 Verma, Ashish
162 Scandaliato, Richard J. 450 Wang, Jenny
501 Kattapuram, Joel J.
906 Machesky, Jackson J.
MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL MODESTO
CENTRAL CATHOLIC H. S.
LARKSPUR 000 Crotta-Cox, Juliana M.
REDWOOD H. S. 000 Franco, Isabella O. 836 Kellner, Vivian B.
455 Fitzgerald, John 000 Raquel, Carmina A.
JAMES C. ENOCHS H. S.
946 Root, Russell
450 Walsh, Jack JOHN MARSHALL H. S. 905 Hilliker, Aaron P.
999 Kim, Min K. 302 Hilliker, Jacob A.
LIVERMORE 467 Ott, India I.
740 Tzeng, Rane P. JOSEPH A. GREGORI H. S.
GRANADA H. S. 455 Hijaouy, Zakaria A.
160 Larson, Emory
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL 185 Sibala, Dhiraj R.
454 Singhal, Meenakshi
300 Wang, Kaitlyn 000 Gold, Ryan S.
000 Saliman, Aaron MODESTO H. S.
162 Choahn, Daniel
LIVERMORE H. S.
999 Brown, Miriam PILGRIM SCHOOL
830 Cooke, Piper A. 833 Brancato, Francesca D. MONROVIA
712 Lee, Jonathan MONROVIA H. S.
302 Nakamura, Nathan
LOMA LINDA
LOMA LINDA ACADEMY SHALHEVET H. S.
000 Hirschhorn, Samuel N. MONTEBELLO
200 Goulbourne, Lyle P.
SCHURR H. S.
WINDWARD SCHOOL 999 Hung, Destinee T.
LONG BEACH 836 Martinez-Banegas, Luis D.
LONG BEACH POLYTECHNIC H. S. 000 Lemann, Spencer
162 Saisho, Mitchell U.
740 Fleming, Thomas M.
999 Oca, Andrew W. LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS H. S. MONTEREY
TRINITY CHRISTIAN H. S.
ROBERT A. MILLIKAN H. S. 457 Brodie, Bates B.
600 Perez, Michael O.
457 Cox, Tristan R. 454 Chou, Charissa J.
450 Field, John H.
999 Lee, Asaph S. YORK SCHOOL
943 McCanny, Molly C.
162 Agha, Kaden
LOOMIS 999 Song, Michael
164 Tiwari, Ritaank
DEL ORO H. S. MOORPARK
000 Scott, Ethan J. 999 Wang, Handong
MOORPARK H. S.
000 Zayante, Juniper 830 Medlock, Dawson G.
MALIBU
LOS ALAMITOS MALIBU H. S.
000 Kapler, Chase T.
MORAGA
LOS ALAMITOS H. S. CAMPOLINDO H. S.
000 Kulkarni, Abhishek S. 160 Deng, Kevin C.
000 Lee, Jina MANHATTAN BEACH 450 Goldblatt, Arthur H.
000 Schissel, Taylor T. HOMESCHOOL 162 Moore, Audrey
000 Wang, Chelsey Y. 000 Rojko, Tony J. 900 Rodriguez, Lauren
459 Todd, Noah
LOS ALTOS MIRA COSTA H. S. 450 Uthayakumar, Athya
LOS ALTOS H. S. 712 Cohn, Joseph P. 999 Zhong, Tanya
942 Cheng, Shirley 303 Geller, Noah S.
204 Fu, Evan S. 450 Gist, Alexander J. MORGAN HILL
870 Ghaffari, Nadia O. 999 Ibrahim, Mason I. OAKWOOD SCHOOL
303 Kutsyy, Albert 905 Kelleher, Thomas R.
999 Murphy, Claire A.
000 Labuda, Evan P. 303 Kim, Ray H.
999 Le, Alexander M.
999 Liu, Alan ANN SOBRATO H. S.
830 Lu, Peter J.
160 MacInnis, Emily J. 303 Jackson, Amanda K.
162 Miao, Jennifer
162 Matthew, Tanya T.
000 Qi, Josephine J.
999 Subramanian, Ananya R. MOUNTAIN VIEW
302 Scalabrini, Jonathan C.
168 Toomre, Reese B. GERMAN INTERNATIONAL
712 Schlick, Lauren A.
999 Varghese, Avi SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY
209 Veytser, Samuel A. 000 Neubrand, Johannes
MARYSVILLE
000 Vronsky, Michael
MARYSVILLE H. S.
000 Wang, Allison L. MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S.
450 Simeroth, William M.
161 Wu, Aline Y. 740 Cai, Andrew J.
000 Yeo, Darryl H. 906 Chao, Timothy
303 Yu, Justin V. MILL VALLEY 160 Cheng, Allen
999 Yuan, Joanne TAMALPAIS H. S. 303 Ciao, Daniel
999 Pletcher, Samuel J. 792 Delaney, Brian C.
LOS ALTOS HILLS 164 Donahue, Rebecca G.
PINEWOOD SCHOOL MILLBRAE 454 Frees, Daniel M.
162 Rodriguez Steube, Maria C. MILLS H. S. 000 Ghosh, Ryan
300 Carson, Jasmine 999 Hoberman, Benjamin A.
LOS ANGELES 894 Chan, Kaitlyn 870 Jung, Jae
THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 522 Eschen, Carson 000 Karolczak, Eva O.
000 Germano, Claire A. 455 Huang, Sarah 451 Liu, Rolan
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Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued)
520 Mueller, Audrey J.
000 Nelson, Ray O.
200 Peltier, Bryan K.
940 Petti, Anna
450 Robinson, Maryann
907 Shahiar, Neda
843 Wang, Howard
160 Wong, Nolan S.
160 Yang, Eunice
303 Zhang, Cathy
999 Zhou, Alan Y.
ST. FRANCIS H. S.
628 Ambatipudi, Mythri
254 Asuncion, Matthew J.
160 Baskaran, Nithyashri
160 Bhattacharya, Rishi
999 Biswas, Shopnavo
999 Chen, Christina
303 Chern, William W.
303 Fernandez, Miranda E.
302 Goyal, Nikita
303 Gudibande, Arnav
454 Jain, Rishabh
900 Kapur, Amisha
302 Karur, Naren
303 Ke, Andrew
175 Kim, Nicole
451 Law, Jared
185 Lee, Sonya S.
160 Lu, Stephanie Y.
999 Morissette, Thomas M.
628 Muthyala, Prerna
303 Nguyen, Kelley
467 Ranade, Rayva A.
160 Rao, Kushaal
103 Sardal, Riya R.
456 Shanmugam, Adithya V.
999 Silva, Jan Gabrielle P.
160 Su, Jessica
628 Walsh, Sabrina K.
160 Wang, Tuan
999 Xiao, Eric Y.
999 Xu, Jerry D.
303 Yang, Kory
MURRIETA
MURRIETA VALLEY H. S.
999 Kim, Jeffrey
NAPA
JUSTIN - SIENA H. S.
999 Gulrajani, Natalie
454 Kenaston, Matthew W.
NEWBURY PARK
NEWBURY PARK H. S.
999 Bai, Lois M.
450 Chen, Kevin
843 Chew, Juliana L.
790 Dvoretzky, Ayla M.
999 Hsu, Winston S.
742 Joshi, Megan
999 Kim, Hyunsoo
161 Kim, Rachel S.
712 Nguyen, Cac-Han
999 Xi, Brian J.
NEWPORT BEACH
CORONA DEL MAR H. S.
999 Goldenberg, Jeffrey H.
628 Marlo, John A.
204 Mickelsen, Liam
628 Stemler, Lian M.
843 Tolsma, Ryan
SAGE HILL SCHOOL
171 Ansari, Farooq F.
999 Huang, Ian S.
907 Saboorian, Sarah N.
457 Sanchez, Alfonso
559 Walenta, Matthew S.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD
CAMPBELL HALL
000 Farid, Daniel J.
000 Kustin, John W.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD H. S.
999 Bulwa, Felix B.
168 Hewitt, Sophia M.
160 Hu, Robin
833 Jagani, Roshan A.
830 Jagani, Shaan 160 Ting, Karina PALOS VERDES ESTATES
843 Joo, Dominick I. 000 Zhang, Jasmine PALOS VERDES H. S.
451 Ke, Alexander 200 Agrawal, Sachit S.
772 Kim, Joel PACIFIC GROVE 160 Nash, Austin L.
628 Liu, Jonathan D. PACIFIC GROVE H. S. 209 Nash, Brandon W.
999 Loo, Yi-Shen A. 162 Bitter, Sarah R. 185 Norris, Angelina S.
303 Mendelsohn, Jaren P. 200 Park, Sue Yeon
907 Michaels, Ella Q. PACIFIC PALISADES 164 Zhang, Roger
303 Opell, Aaron J. PALISADES CHARTER H. S.
160 Pak, Yea-Lyn 870 Ghodsian, Ashley A. PALOS VERDES PENINSULA
999 Ren, Stephen C. 999 Gottesman, Daniel M. CHADWICK SCHOOL
999 Shuai, Richard W. 550 Thibodeaux, Pierre N. 999 Foster, Owen
740 Standish, Jack C. 999 Shim, Taesun
162 Stoutenburg, Dylan M. PALO ALTO 904 Toups, Connor J.
999 Vasudevan, Visishtah Narayan CASTILLEJA SCHOOL 000 Zhou, Amy F.
450 Guha, Sreya E.
OAKWOOD SCHOOL 999 Gupta, Arushi G. PASADENA
000 Mendelsohn, Juliana M. 999 Kona, Zoe JOHN MARSHALL
999 Rhee, Kaitlin FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOL
NOVATO 999 Sandhu, Simran K. 454 Ashkaryan, Kachik
SAN MARIN H. S. 999 Sonecha, Ria V. 175 Schlecht, Abigail B.
301 Clark, Ryan P.
HENRY M. GUNN H. S. MAYFIELD SCHOOL
OAK PARK 185 Agarwal, Arushi 999 Nail, Elizabeth L.
OAK PARK H. S. 906 Arun, Advait 450 Parisi, Elizabeth A.
999 Attanti, Sumedha 454 Baharav, Carmel
628 Juwadi, Kavya R. 628 Chandra, Anand POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
160 Lee, Matthew J. 302 Chang, Kyu-Ri 000 Bradforth, Emma E.
999 Sun, Carol K. 450 Chen, Joshua L. 000 Chatterjee, Shivani J.
742 Trux, Alexandra N. 999 Chen, Tiffany 000 Cire, Dallas
553 Daniel, Clarissa Y. 000 Demetriades, Lucas P.
OAKDALE 218 Dong, Andrew 164 Feingold, Jacob H.
OAKDALE CHARTER H. S. 301 Gao, Alex 000 McCarthy, Elizabeth B.
710 Sanford, Chase 000 Gordon, Noah G. 214 Sherwindt, Hannah G.
948 Guo, Crystal C. 000 Wuthrich, Nicholas H.
200 Hristov, Deiana
OAKLAND WESTRIDGE SCHOOL
999 Lee, Catherine
COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
212 Lee, Young Suk 628 Qin, Ashley E.
000 Breber, Emma L.
171 Li, Ethan J.
999 Chapin, Natalie M.
000 Du, Yue 303 Li, Kevin PASO ROBLES
836 Mishra, Ankur K. PASO ROBLES H. S.
000 Guo, Janet C.
000 New, Rachel N. 160 Smith, Zachary T.
999 Jones, Audrey T.
200 Ng, Joseph H.
999 Katari, Michael F.
843 Pan, Leny PEBBLE BEACH
999 Lin, Alexander J.
303 Sachidanandan, Adnaan A. STEVENSON SCHOOL
185 Liu, Tiffany T.
457 Shau, David 700 Chiu, Christopher Y.
836 Lyons, Jake C.
161 Sheu, Lauren Y.
628 McCulloch, Margaret E.
450 Shi, Andrew Z. PIEDMONT
200 Menon, Neha S.
254 Sweidy Stata, Raychel PIEDMONT H. S.
999 Parekh, Tara E.
450 Vawter, Logan W. 455 Tao, Zhuoran 999 Coleman, Ellen C.
712 Wornow, David J. 450 Wang, Liana 161 Hunter, Eva D.
999 Wu, Yuhang V. 160 Wang, Max C. 160 Kucirek, Juliet
450 Zheleznyak, Adam A. 459 Xie, Gregory 000 Srivastava, Rohan B.
160 Yang, Arthur 999 Tellegen, Mira B.
HEAD - ROYCE SCHOOL 300 Yang, Daphne 999 Yu, David D.
000 Bartlett, Audrey N. 301 Zhu, Daniel E.
000 Chu, Alice PLACENTIA
000 Dang, Lawrence H. KEHILLAH JEWISH H. S. VALENCIA H. S.
000 Kojima, Sophia Maxine 833 Kaplan-Lipkin, Avi 999 Bhupathy, Ashwin J.
000 Teuscher, Noah 628 Zimand, Liran A. 162 Kim, Erika
000 Yuen, Nathan 162 Kim, Erin
PALO ALTO H. S. 742 Kim, Junil
BISHOP O'DOWD H. S. 461 Ardeshna, Devin A. 160 Thio, Ethan D.
970 Liu, Alicia D. 450 Chin, Maya L. 300 Yee, Christy A.
906 Cockerell, Emma M. 600 Yoon, Amy
162 Craig, Samuel E.
OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
906 Doubson, Julia N. PLACERVILLE
946 Pandey, Achintya
830 Duffie, Cornelius H. CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL
000 Foster, Reed A. 450 Murdock, Michael A.
OAKLAND TECHNICAL H. S.
904 Barrilleaux, Francois E. 303 Goyal, Ushana
000 Gubbens, Derek H. OCEAN GROVE CHARTER SCHOOL
999 Carrere, Leah M.
450 Hagen, Xander 999 Hanlon, Michelina
457 Goldberg, Aden
940 Hildebrand, Gail C.
OCEANSIDE 000 Hong, Chloe Z. PLEASANT HILL
000 Huang, Ronaldo C. COLLEGE PARK H. S.
EL CAMINO H. S. 833 Figen, Jacob R.
000 Jawetz, Christopher L.
999 Dee, Paris
000 Kim, Edward
204 Zhou, Jaron M.
000 Kim, Kevin PLEASANTON
200 Leng, Mei M. AMADOR VALLEY H. S.
OJAI 300 Liu, Eric X. 999 Bhandari, Thrishna
THE THACHER SCHOOL 870 Liu, Ryan C. 453 Bilkic, Ines M.
999 Hardwicke, Joseph B. 630 Lok, Sarah E. 741 Chen, April D.
999 Kallett, Ethan 000 On, Alvin Z. 209 Chin, Isabella L.
999 O'Neill, Kathleen J. 628 Poe, James 162 Choo, Young Joo K.
906 Qiao, Julia 230 Dhingra, Megha
ORANGE 821 Rumelhart, Joseph D. 000 Gao, Kevin
EL MODENA H. S. 162 Sharma, Vijay A. 742 Griston, Molly J.
000 Tucker, Nicholas S. 999 Shieh, Andrew 906 Hawkins, Mackenzie O.
999 Singhal, Mihir A. 999 Huang, William B.
ORANGE LUTHERAN H. S. 300 Soundararajan, Kesavan A. 300 Iyer, Varun
185 Penn, Natalie E. 170 Stephenson, Renee N. 160 Jolly, Arnav
740 Su, Tanli 000 Ju, Jerry
ORINDA 522 Wang, Tristan 000 Kheny, Sachi
MIRAMONTE H. S. 303 Wu, Jerry 000 Koyyada, Anurag
300 Banisadr, Eric C. 000 Yu, Stephanie 000 Krishnaswamy, Shreyas
459 Liu, Angeline 000 Zhang, Ashley 000 Lee, Rachel S.
303 Shen, Jeremy K. 000 Zhuang, Frances 000 Li, Oliver F.
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Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
830 Ortega, Daniel D. 628 Liang, Michelle A. 999 Yang, Stephen
California (continued) 450 Pugazhendhi, Pranit 167 Yu, Michael 450 Yu, Jannie
185 Ritchie, Emily A. 459 Zhang, Andrew
600 Roach, Caroline M. SACRAMENTO 303 Zhang, Cecilia
000 Lilja, Cathrine M. 450 Wang, Henry L. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H. S. 740 Zhang, Jacob
000 Lin, Matthew Y. 204 Xiang, Phillip T. 459 Karalli, David M. 303 Zhu, Zilu
000 Menon, Rohit K. 185 Zhuang, Wesley
303 More, Ayush REDDING C. K. MC CLATCHY H. S.
301 Natarrajan, Raahul SHASTA H. S. 000 Karlsen, Amos CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC H. S.
742 Peng, Kenneth L. 900 Matagulay, Aislinn S. 000 Pham, Elyse 999 Moreau, Madeleine J.
999 Pereira, Julianna L. 999 Moon, Andrew K.
300 Reddy, Pranav MIRA LOMA H. S. DEL NORTE H. S.
302 Regmi, Simran UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY 000 Arun, Adith S. 160 Chandramohan, Advaita
300 Sharma, Mayank SCHOOL 185 Flamm, Carson W. 999 Chen, Kevin J.
772 Shimanuki, Stacy K. 970 Liu, Kevin D. 160 Jiang, Bowen 450 Chen, Valerie K.
162 Sridhar, Sunidhi 710 Jung, Edward 300 Cheng, Sarah K.
907 Swaminathan, Nithya REDLANDS 161 Kumar, Nikhilesh G. 160 Du, Carolyn
457 Thendean, Fiona H. REDLANDS EAST VALLEY H. S. 999 Maglalang, Jack A. 459 Gaytan, Christian F.
450 Thomas, Alan J. 171 Kristoffersen, Matthew E. 166 Sharma, Khounish 999 Hong, Rose M.
160 Toor, Hartej S. 000 Wang, Sophia J. 600 Kadaba, Sukruth S.
455 Tor, Alice REDLANDS H. S. 000 Yong, Harry 160 Kim, Sunwoo
450 Tor, Annie M. 712 Shammo, Renata 000 Yoon, Michael 628 Lam, Jordan
450 Tummala, Dhruv 303 Wilson, Tylan R. 161 Lee, Haemin J.
900 Vaidyanath, Varsha RIO AMERICANO H. S. 459 Lin, Everett
999 Varshney, Aastha 214 Donnelly, West P. 628 Panda, Sameeksha
REDONDO BEACH
457 Venkatesh, Nandhakumar 700 Muilenburg, Zachary A. 999 Park, Emily
REDONDO UNION H. S.
999 Yang, Jonathan H. 303 Ramesh, Anjali
170 Chamas, Malek
214 Yu, Grace ST. FRANCIS H. S. 170 Schoppa, Nathaniel K.
999 Goodarzi, Navid R.
999 Zhang, Nicole 999 Fu, Olivia 303 Suresh, Urmi
300 White, Enoch E.
833 Zhang, Shawn B. 999 Ostrom, Amanda L. 162 Trost, Jessica S.
303 Zheng, Kevin 450 Xue, Claudia Q.
Zhu, Jennifer S.
REDWOOD CITY 629 Zeng, Tracy
628
SEQUOIA H. S. WEST CAMPUS H. S.
000 Burrill, Nathaniel J. 461 Jang, Michael
FOOTHILL H. S. PATRICK HENRY H. S.
000 Culverhouse, Karsen M.
999 Chen, Benjamin G. SAN BERNARDINO 999 Chu, Kalos K.
000 Lo, Zachary C.
628 Hsu, Jessie CAJON H. S.
000 MacAvoy, Clara G.
454 Jeong, Donghyun 900 Cholbi, Isabel J. HIGH TECH HIGH MEDIA ARTS
000 Marcus, Hannah E.
300 Jiang, Hannah Q. 742 DeHaan, Soren P.
303 Joglekar, Manasi Y. SAN BRUNO
833 Li, Peggy P. RIVERSIDE MIRA MESA H. S.
MARTIN LUTHER KING H. S. CAPUCHINO H. S.
999 Paranjpe, Nina 450 Cordero, Julia 200 Jones, Noah M.
303 Peng, Ziyi 454 Koh, Esther E.
454 Su, Yushan 999 Jayanthi, Niven
160 Pereira, Savita A. MOUNT CARMEL H. S.
450 Rengarajan, Anirudh 999 Yao, Audrey E.
SAN DIEGO 836 Alfonzo, Carson
970 Wang, Nanxiang ACADEMY OF OUR LADY 300 Bost, Eileen J.
300 Wang, Sophia L. RIVERSIDE POLYTECHNIC H. S. 830 Cline, Jonathan P.
204 Smith, Claudia A. OF PEACE
836 Zhang, Emily 796 Grygar, Allison G. 628 Fox, Juliana M.
459 Tran, Johnathan T.
QUARRY LANE SCHOOL RIVERSIDE STEM ACADEMY
163 Kanrar, Nivedita THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL
999 Kaur, Joymaneet MOUNT EVEREST ACADEMY
450 Su, Morgan Z. 999 Hom, Haley
833 Narayanan, Srihari 000 Hardianto, Priscilla
770 Sen, Ahana 501 Huang, Lucas O.
ROCKLIN CANYON CREST ACADEMY
ROCKLIN H. S. 712 Arul, Boopalakrishnan
PORTOLA VALLEY 450 Aryan, Delara FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL 000 Nguyen, Julia 000 Appel, Troy B.
999 Beer, Michael
164 Duncan, Elizabeth C. 000 Fay, Liam
000 Campbell, Caitlin M.
WESTERN SIERRA 000 Hall, Zachary T.
000 Chen, Anne
POWAY COLLEGIATE ACADEMY 000 McCulloch, Jeremy A.
000 Chen, Maggie S.
POWAY H. S. 999 Trehan, Michael L. 000 Pai, Megan N.
999 Choi, Jiwoo
000 Bartholomeusz, Evan J. 451 Colborn, Jennah 000 Partnoy, Natasha C.
628 Cheves, Hannah G. ROHNERT PARK 455 Ervin, Tamar 000 Waldman, Aviva
211 Liu, Kai Yuan TECHNOLOGY H. S. 628 Fuller, Joshua
450 Jenkins, Calvin D. 605 Ge, Yujia POINT LOMA H. S.
QUARTZ HILL 450 Peterson, Collin 999 Gu, Sonia 450 Burnes, Trevor R.
QUARTZ HILL H. S. 628 Ha, Jason 950 Omens, Jonathan
204 Kim, Vivian M. ROLLING HILLS ESTATES 999 Han, Eric 950 Roel, Julian T.
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA H. S. 457 Huang, Andrew
RAMONA 162 Baik, Matthew J. 999 Ji, Angela RANCHO BERNARDO H. S.
RAMONA H. S. 600 Chang, Sean N. 999 Jiang, Kathleen 218 Chen, Daniel C.
462 Leonard, Victoria P. 467 Chang, Tyler K. 161 Kandula, Praneeth 999 Domsalla, Wesley M.
999 Chew, Alyssa B. 161 Kang, Joanne 000 Durkin, Elizabeth L.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA 712 Chien, Christopher 628 Krishnamurthy, Nithya 999 Gopalan, Ayaan A.
LOS OSOS H. S. 999 Hong, Ashley J. 459 Kumar, Kratin 000 Hunter, Samuel Y.
400 Du, Danielle 200 Hu, Robert 999 Larson, Nicholas 999 Leete, Rachel M.
882 Pan, Kelly 999 Kato, Kai Y. 161 Lee, Mhun-Jeong 000 Lu, Nina
160 Yang, Grace E. 742 Kim, Nathaniel J. 162 Li, Kevin 830 Ozturk, Robert C.
200 Kim, Yuna 162 Lin, Jason K. 303 Pickard, Bradley A.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA H. S. 185 Lazarus, Michael D. 950 Lindberg, Maria
454 Chu, Winnie U. 462 Liu, Ryan 743 Liu, Rachael SCRIPPS RANCH H. S.
628 Young, Carissa C. 250 Liu, Samantha T. 451 Luo, Jim 000 Cantrell, Ryan J.
600 Louie, Daniel J. 904 Qiu, Jeffrey 904 Chang, Hyounjun
RANCHO SANTA FE 553 Mueller, William T. 303 Rao, Rithvik 162 Datta, Poorvi
HORIZON PREP 870 Ng, Riley K. 999 Roy, John 628 Lee, Joonhyuk
843 Creek, Aerin L. 164 Ni, Joshua S. 209 Ruan, Sarah 999 Luo, Jonathan
200 Panfil, Sabrina K. 628 Skinner, Samantha G. 740 Nuzen, Melba H.
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA 467 Schluper, Julia M. 000 Soler, Ferran 160 Richards, Gracie C.
SANTA MARGARITA 463 Stam, Katherine H. 454 Stickels, Annika N. 700 Sferraa, Isabella A.
CATHOLIC H. S. 820 Tanaka, Miho M. 741 Sun, Daniel D. 303 Snyder, Colin
160 Jennison, Jordan M. 451 Yohannan, Jonathan 303 Vuong, Erin 454 Wang, Matthew-Keane Q.
870 Kim, Sung Y. 742 Wang, Daniel 303 Wildenhain, Patrick I.
722 Senkowski, Andrew H. ROSS 999 Wang, Melissa
160 Sherwood, Susannah L. BRANSON SCHOOL 450 Wang, Orson JUNIPERO SERRA H. S.
999 Koehne, Niklas 160 Wang, Xiran 450 Langley, Tristan J.
TESORO H. S. 160 Wesson, Grace 607 Tran, Michelle N.
450 Cheng, Brian T. ROWLAND HEIGHTS 451 Woytowitz, Sean
201 Cheng, Vincent D. JOHN A. ROWLAND H. S. 301 Wu, Nicole ST. AUGUSTINE H. S.
000 Mulligan, Alexander J. 520 Chin, Keilyn 628 Yan, Amy 999 Fudge, Nicholas

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Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued)
900 Haliburton, Ian G.
209 Misleh, Jason W.
302 Vecchioni, Nicholas C.
TORREY PINES H. S.
303 Behrend, Jack
451 Freedman, Thomas E.
466 Gelman, Isaac
463 Gross, Benjamin W.
999 Hu, Kevin
999 Hu, Stacy
303 Kan, Reagan
600 Kim, Simon
160 Kuo, Jonathan
161 Lian, Rachel
162 Lin, Ryan
742 Ren, Kevin
999 Seong, Jungmo
171 Shah, Karishma
628 Tzeng, Jocelyn
628 Xie, Edward
459 You, Carine
450 Zhang, Lauren
950 Zhao, Andrew
950 Zhou, Ryan
629 Zimmer, Leianna
UNIVERSITY CITY H. S.
000 Grubensky, Colin M.
459 McGee, Alexander T.
833 Roosnovo, Alexandra K.
WESTVIEW H. S.
000 Bao, Allison
000 Bradshaw, Nathan D.
000 Chen, Steven
000 Chu, Robin L.
000 Dinh, Alan B.
000 Fowler, Liam E.
000 Galash, David A.
000 Geng, Jamie
000 Guo, Ricky R.
000 Kang, Eric H.
000 Kim, Jeeyu A.
000 Lee, Andrew
000 Levin, Nir
000 Nasser, Rehana
000 New, Kevin
000 Nolan, Nicole
000 Rajgopal, Nandini
000 Siegel, Seth
000 Wang, Charles Z.
000 Wang, Kerry X.
000 Yang, Jack
303 Yao, Ethan Y.
000 Yin, Andre A.
000 Yu, Kevin
000 Zeng, Angela J.
000 Zhang, Eric
SAN FRANCISCO
RUTH ASAWA SCHOOL OF
THE ARTS
450 Dimov, Roman
559 Mitrovic, Dimitri A.
942 Swenson-Heim, Audrey G.
INTERNATIONAL H. S.
999 Chan, Hannah S.
LICK - WILMERDING H. S.
459 Lau, Isaac K.
999 Montagu, Silvana
830 Puckett, Samantha
000 Sifry, Melody R.
740 Story, Christopher R.
LOWELL H. S.
000 Chan, Victor L.
999 Grishanina, Tatyana R.
999 Huang, Sophie
999 Kirkpatrick, Sierra
000 Kwock, Samantha
999 Liu, Shojeh
522 McIntyre, Marlowe H.
450 Sun, Eric
999 Yee, Fontanna L.
302 Zhao, Janet M.
940 Zhu, Emily
PROOF SCHOOL
000 Edholm, Freya
SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL 300 Li, Michelle
PREPARATORY 619 Lin, Allison X.
450 Pan, Katherine 161 Mahammad, Shahela A.
450 Mani, Anirudh V.
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY H. S. 457 Parekh, Shivani
160 Carter, Catherine 450 Qiu, Brian L.
870 McBurnett, Kara 501 Qu, Larry
302 Michael, Christopher S. 999 Sahasrabudhe, Sanika A.
160 Nooney, Robert J. 999 Subramani, Ananya
Thiagarajan, Thisha J.
300 Ptacek, Gabor 628
522 Savage, Princess 605 Tran, Andrew T.
450 Wen, Jenny J.
ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL THE HARKER SCHOOL
907 Doo, Cami 000 Arun, Akhil
999 Presher, Andrew A. 000 Banga, Anika
303 Ring, Alexander S. 000 Batra, Praveen
303 Tanlimco, Chloe L. 000 Bhimaraju, Divija A.
720 Veit, Cooper R. 000 Cardosi, Megan J.
303 Wang, Madeline 000 Chen, Emily Y.
457 Young, Joshua Y. 000 Chen, Gwyneth S.
000 Chen, Jerry
URBAN SCHOOL 000 Cheng, Kathleen
000 Hancock, Hunter G. 000 Chu, Adrian H.
000 Ngin, Zachary W. 000 Connors, Peter F.
000 Douglas, Morgan T.
SAN GABRIEL 000 Dunphy, Amy C.
GABRIELINO H. S. 000 Gagneja, Shaan
000 Dang, Jannelle 000 Garg, Swapnil
870 Liang, Ya Chi 000 Grebin, Anastasiya
163 Lung, Christopher H. 000 He, Jacqueline
455 So, Hugo M. 000 Hernandez, Adriano
000 Hsu, Kaitlin
204 Vuong, Benjamin
000 Huang, Charlotte H.
SAN GABRIEL H. S. 000 Huang, Julia S.
303 Ting, Britney 000 Huynh, Megan B.
000 Jeong, Seunghoon
000 Jin, Amy
SAN JOSE
000 Kohli, Sumer
BASIS INDEPENDENT
000 Kumar, Maya S.
SILICON VALLEY
000 Lee, Matthew J.
300 Baddam, Nitya R.
000 Li, Linus D.
999 Cao, William X.
000 Lin, Edgar Z.
999 Chen, Bethany
000 Lin, Millie J.
450 Chen, Brian
000 Lu, Serena
200 Gowda, Pavan R.
000 Mehta, Rahul
160 He, Christopher A.
000 Michael, Alexandra E.
740 Hou, Kimberly L.
000 Ohana, Jacob S.
302 Huang, Jerry
000 Panchanatham, Vignesh K.
451 Kannan, Shrivats
000 Ramachandran, Neelesh K.
303 Kapoor, Eish
000 Semenza, Andrew M.
999 Khandewale, Shreya R.
000 Sengupta, Anooshree
160 Kin, Alvin
000 Sreekumar, Aashe
450 Krishna, Vinay
000 Srinivasan, Sahana G.
303 Mitra, Rishab
000 Tjandrasuwita, Megan
160 Pavlov, Sergey D.
000 Tran, Eric
999 Sun, Aaron L.
000 Wang, Alexander Z.
900 Thekkedath, Anushree M.
000 Wen, David J.
520 Wang, Nikki Y.
000 Yen, Derek J.
300 Wang, Patrick Z.
000 Zarkesh, Shaya
999 Ye, Angela A.
000 Zhong, Patrick
628 Zhang, Lorne
BELLARMINE COLLEGE HOMESCHOOL
PREPARATORY 999 Chang, Faith L.
300 Arya, Abhinav 000 Crandall, Emma G.
830 Feliciano, Vince Matthew P. 999 Guan, Betty P.
000 Yeo, Catherine H.
600 Gade, Neerav
450 Hadjiioannou, Themistocles
KIPP SAN JOSE COLLEGIATE
999 Healzer, William
162 Doan, Khoa A.
300 Hu, Dennis
300 Tran, Aaron C.
160 Joseph, Solomon E.
450 Lodhavia, Aneesh M.
999 Ma, Jeffrey J. LEIGH H. S.
450 Mehendale, Atharva N. 999 Fang, Patrick H.
999 Onsori, Dariush 306 Park, Geoffrey G.
160 Oruganti, Maanas H. 459 Toy, Cameron
450 Ruiz, Mario J. 600 Zhang, Emily
600 Saha, Atul
450 Si, Phillip LELAND H. S.
999 Sung, Kevin K. 833 Bento, Trinity
300 Tucker, Quinn H. 454 Chen, Maxwell H.
450 Wong, Matthew Raymond 628 Cho, Hannah S.
450 Yang, George 160 Chong, William H.
160 Farkhoor, Rojeen B.
BRANHAM H. S. 303 Han, Jun-Hee
561 Dutta, Kunal 200 Huang, Bryan
459 Irish, Jack A. 303 Jang, Wonsuk
450 Kim, Yookyeong 773 Kackar, Vishal M.
454 Lenz, Andrew 500 Kang, Miles J.
160 Karandikar, Aarushi
EVERGREEN VALLEY H. S. 254 Kim, Allen
999 Basava, Hrishika 430 Kim, June J.
600 Chun, Katie Y. 457 Kim, Sang Gi
303 Gunadhi, Kaitlyn K. 450 Le, Brian M.
999 Guo, Matthew 300 Lee, Alex
999 Han, Kevin Z. 300 Lee, Roselyn
999 Joshi, Jwalin N. 302 Lee, Ryan Y.
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160 Leung, Evan T.
999 Li, Jonathan B.
999 Liu, Rachel
303 Natarajan, Rahul L.
628 Patel, Nikita J.
303 Rauchwerk, Jason M.
300 Sananikone, Sean Y.
627 Shin, Michelle
450 Shokrzadeh, Shyan
Sun, Yu Xin
870
160 Te, Charlene W.
000 Vinodh, Sanjeev S.
218 Vu, Kristine T.
999 Xia, Lucas M.
904 Xie, Spencer
450 Xu, Catherine J.
457 Youn, Tyler
200 Yuan, Timothy
459 Zhang, Emily
200 Zhang, Matthew S.
450 Zhao, Jonathan J.
160 Zhou, Katheryn
LYNBROOK H. S.
000 Agrawal, Aarushi
000 Ajjarapu, Nikhil
000 Basireddy, Bhuvanesh
000 Chen, Ashley
000 Chen, Athena Y.
000 Chen, William W.
000 Cheng, Myra
000 Chiang, Bryan
000 Chobisa, Harsh
000 Damodaran, Ramachandran
000 Dhesikan, Rohan
000 Doo, Amy
000 Feng, Xingchen J.
000 Guo, Derek
000 Hou, Elissa
000 Huang, Catherine
000 Huang, Yuhsin V.
000 Jain, Avinash
000 Joo, Ah-Young
000 Ke, Eric
000 Kim, Christopher
000 Kulkarni, Rohit
000 Laddad, Shadaj R.
000 Lin, Andrew Y.
000 Liu, Jessica
000 Mandic, Sara
000 Mehrotra, Rohan
000 Mehta, Eshani
000 Mudupalli, Vineet
000 Munnangi, Shreya
000 Naikawadi, Abhinav
000 Narasimhan, Raksha M.
000 Nathan, Ashwin
000 Paaske, Joshua J.
000 Pearce, Marcus R.
000 Peng, Kenneth C.
000 Pujare, Rajita N.
303 Sengupta, Aubhro
000 Sha, Leo S.
000 Shao, Andrew Y.
999 Srinivasan, Meera
000 Teng, Johnnie H.
000 Thomas, Juhi C.
000 Tong, Daniel
000 Tran, Matthew D.
000 Tuo, Anney H.
000 Vytla, Nikhil C.
000 Wan, Emily Y.
000 Wang, Christopher Y.
000 Wang, Johnny C.
000 Wang, Shanqing
000 Yang, Eugene
999 Yang, Robert
000 Yuan, Margaret K.
000 Zhang, Angela Y.
000 Zhang, Eric
000 Zhang, Michael
000 Zheng, Jessica A.
000 Zhong, Eric
000 Zhou, Matthew
301 Zhou, Susan L.
000 Zhu, Bill
000 Zou, Joe
ARCHBISHOP MITTY H. S.
999 Butler, Thomas
836 Co, Nathalie H.
450 Genevriere, Emily
999 Jones, Derek W.
999 Ju, William B.
162 Kang, Andrew J.
160 Kinsella, Amelia S.
999 Kozminski, Aleksander M.
Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
SAN LORENZO 628 Han, Simon SANTA CRUZ
California (continued) ARROYO H. S. 999 Ho, Elaine PACIFIC COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
907 Bendell, Noah S. 170 Hsieh, Michael T. 904 Rorty, Ruby A.
455 Pan, Eileen 999 Huang, Lucy
999 Huo, Luvena SANTA CRUZ H. S.
999 Law, Brenton Y. 000 Inamdar, Ankita
870 Lee, Daisy SAN LUIS OBISPO 843 Gill, Jake J.
SAN LUIS OBISPO H. S. 628 Jain, Akshat 450 Hedrick, Helen R.
772 Lim, Nichole R. 303 Jeon, Seohyun
209 Matlock, Danielle M. 451 Billing, Gus R. 999 Nolan, Emily K.
999 Roodsari, Susan Z. 600 Jeong, Annie S. 999 Parsa, Sophie J.
720 Mau, Elizabeth G. 200 Jo, Tae Hyoung
908 Meza, Gabriel L. 303 Joshi, Shubham
710 Olsen, Liam E. SAN MARCOS
HIGH TECH HIGH - 712 Kambath, Amisha A. SANTA MONICA
773 Pai, Druv 999 Kim, Kyubin SANTA MONICA H. S.
451 Simka, Timothy A. NORTH COUNTY
773 Reiter, Abraham I. 999 Kim, Michelle 160 Dunn, Kelly H.
303 Veeramacheneni, Teja S. 870 Kong, Priscilla 999 Gilman, Cyril M.
204 Vobbilisetty, Rithvik R. 161 Lewsey, Haley R. 461 Graber, Edie N.
MISSION HILLS H. S.
166 Andrews, Dana M. 303 Ley, Justin S. 999 McClain, Georgia L.
NOTRE DAME H. S. 303 Lincoln, Sarah C. 999 Li, Michelle M. 940 Ollivier, Dylan
450 Jackson, Holly 209 Lin, Ivy 160 Seizer, Daniel R.
619 Kakaria, Reva 300 Liu, Emma 450 Todorov, Svetoslav S.
SAN MARCOS H. S.
454 Mazumder, Mashia N. 160 Maharajh, Sarita C. 999 Ward, Kobe H.
459 Wang, Winston
000 Pineda, Daenerys I. 175 Mao, Natalie Y. 209 Ware, Emma C.
470 Wong, Julian
302 Yeh, Aurora B. 999 Mistry, Rishi D.
SAN MARINO 303 Naidu, Vaibhav SANTA ROSA
PIEDMONT HILLS H. S. SAN MARINO H. S. 999 Nugala, Rohith MARIA CARRILLO H. S.
600 Alviar, Brooke 000 Cheng, Elizabeth A. 628 Panda, Resha 000 Deng, Edward T.
185 Chen, Yiyu 000 Deng, Eric 607 Parikh, Nikki R.
999 Leung, Bruce 628 Duong, Phibi B. 209 Pasupathy, Gautham
454 Liang, Julia T. 101 Huang, Justin J. 451 Patkar, Anirudh D. SARATOGA
160 Luong, Dustin R. 904 Jett, Thomas R. 301 Prabahar, Shirlyn HOMESCHOOL
892 Tanna, Yash 162 Li, Vincent Y. 166 Prasad, Soumil 000 Belloncle, Jean-Luc
843 Wang, Michael J. 160 Liang, Joyce S. 303 Qiu, Robin S.
300 Wu, Brian 302 Natarajan, Ajay 209 Raghu, Keshav PROSPECT H. S.
302 Yuan, Joe 454 Oh, Kobe 999 Ramabadran, Rohini 160 Chen, Jessica
000 Shi, Tiffany H. 628 Ramesh, Rithvik 741 Mahajan, Aditi A.
PRESENTATION H. S. 000 Tsang, Tenny 000 Rashid, Armaan
451 Mandal, Tithi
628 Reddy, Anish
999 Roth, Benjamin SARATOGA H. S.
160 Mathew, Alice R. SAN MATEO 000 Chakravarthy, Ananya L.
999 Perumal, Ashna ARAGON H. S. 999 Shi, Brandon W.
254 Su, Amanda Y. 000 Chen, Caitlyn A.
999 Cai, Arthur 000 Chen, Carolyn
742 Goel, Avichal
209 Suragimath, Samay
SANTA TERESA H. S. 250 Wang, Karen T. 000 Chen, Stacey J.
450 Boronkay, Callahan W. 999 Gong, Diana 000 Galivanche, Amith
166 Liu, Frank
200 Wong, Kristie
451 Thammasouk, Alexis 160 Wu, Sherry 000 Goh, Eleanor
836 Yoo, Hyery 999 Shen, Eric 000 Guan, Colina B.
450 Thompson, Meiling
999 Yoon, Connie
000 Guo, Chengzi
999 Wang, Michael 000 Guo, Samuel Z.
SILVER CREEK H. S. 302 Xiong, Chris VENTURE SCHOOL
000 Duong, Lan 000 Goldie, Matthew B. 000 Handoko, Kevin J.
522 Zhou, Lily 000 Hsu, Vera T.
450 Palaparthi, Amritalakshmi
SANTA ANA 000 Huang, Tiffany Y.
HILLSDALE H. S. 000 Kar, Sohini
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY 999 Ip, Jamie J. FOOTHILL H. S.
450 Asher, Adam 000 Kim, Ian
ACADEMY 467 Liao, Benjamin H. 000 Kim, Jaehyun
000 Nguyen, Henry 999 Davert, Grace
450 Okereke, Kristine 000 Kim, Ryan
833 Shin, Bahda THE NUEVA SCHOOL 000 Kranz, Anna D.
161 Singla, Ruchika 940 Byun, Michael J. 836 Sit, Nathan
000 Kumar, Rahul
254 Chang, Sinead J. 000 Kumar, Shivaum
999 Chroman, Zachary D. MATER DEI H. S.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. 999 Park, Nicholas S. 000 Lee, Angela
999 Ho, Katherine 906 Dowsett, Anthony 000 Low, Michelle M.
999 Saint-Loubert-Bie, Justin H. 450 Smale, Natalie E.
950 McGinnis, Samantha M. 000 Madhani, Avni P.
302 McKinney, Natalie E. 907 Steirman, Emily M. 000 Pradhan, Elora
836 Ponnekanti, Aamani 907 Xu, Justin L. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF
000 Sabato, William T.
628 Shah, Zachary A.
THE ARTS
301 Si, Joshua J.
SAN MATEO H. S. 742 Courtney, Andrew
300 Sill, Jessica 160 Song, Miranda
742 Dunna, Vidhaat 945 Hocking, Ariana J.
160 Tang, Quyen T. 450 Su, Ashley
999 Lu, Shannon 140 Lee, JinWook N.
160 Vu, Alexander B. 200 Tan, Mervi
303 Sai, Lily 162 Luna, Xochitl
000 Vadrevu, Sadhana
204 Sun, Emily 999 Ok, Katherine S.
WILLOW GLEN H. S. 000 Viswanath, Varun
999 Xiao, Charles P. 870 Ong, Emma
303 Paredes-Kao, Nathan Y. 000 Wang, Austin
522 Park, Ashley S.
457 Saso, Noah J. 000 Wang, Kyle J.
999 Sweet, Jacob R.
JUNIPERO SERRA H. S. 000 Wong, Bryan J.
999 O'Brien, Sean E. SEGERSTROM H. S. 000 Wu, Tyler
455 Vorreiter, Mary M. 454 Nguyen, Kevin Q.
999 Park, Jang Jun 000 Xue, Michael Y.
000 Wang, Tyler C. 000 Yin, Clifford P.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO SANTA BARBARA 000 Yuen, Atlas H.
CAPISTRANO CONNECTIONS SAN RAFAEL SAN MARCOS H. S. 000 Zeng, Lillian
ACADEMY MARIN ACADEMY 741 Donohoe, Kadin M. 000 Zhang, Catherine
303 Gullo, Charles E. 000 Ringness, Daniel 000 Faessel, Junna C. 000 Zheng, Andrew
000 Wall, Jessica E.
J SERRA CATHOLIC H. S. 000 Zhao, Art J. SANTA BARBARA H. S.
771 Brotman, Austin 000 Everest, Thomas A. SAUGUS
162 Chu, Steven SAN RAMON SAUGUS H. S.
SANTA CLARA 833 Klipfel, Alexandra P.
000 Douglas, Deven D. CALIFORNIA H. S.
ADRIAN C. WILCOX H. S. 700 O'Connell, Sean D.
999 Bhargava, Ishan J.
999 Haeri, Neeki 999 Williams, Peter J.
SAN JUAN HILLS H. S. 740 Ghosh, Dhruba J.
000 Gow, Sean 451 Maharaj, Simhal
161 Cepeda, Joshua K. A.
168 Gupta, Himadri 000 Mandava, Nikhil SEBASTOPOL
821 Sanchez, Nicholas P.
870 Kim, Joanne 000 Mathew, Michelle A. ORCHARD VIEW SCHOOL
463 Lin, Justin T. 000 Stock, Alexandra L. 459 Kokott, Kaleb I.
ST. MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL 303 Rathee, Rajat R. 000 Sundher, Sashwath
SCHOOL 302 Reznikov, Leron M.
000 Morin, Alexandra K. SANTA CLARITA SHERMAN OAKS
000 Na, Hyewon DOUGHERTY VALLEY H. S. ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL
457 Chan, Daniel
170 Braga, Matthew 628 Yang, Hazel
SAN LEANDRO 200 Deshmukh, Gaurav P.
SAN LEANDRO H. S. 303 Fang, Alison ALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY FOR SHINGLE SPRINGS
743 Frager, Tobias H. 999 Guo, Selena LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES PONDEROSA H. S.
303 Sagan, Naomi I. 628 Han, Jingbo 999 Kang, Ethan S. 204 Hopman, William

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Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
California (continued)
SIERRA MADRE
ALVERNO H. S.
628 Chen, Victoria
450 Wu, Melody
SILVERADO
ST. MICHAEL'S PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
468 Goodwin, Thomas G.
SIMI VALLEY
SANTA SUSANA H. S.
160 Vakil, Anushka
SIMI VALLEY H. S.
161 Bhandal, Deap
SOLANA BEACH
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
450 Pasco, Gian Paolo C.
999 Shin, Deine
SOUTH PASADENA
SOUTH PASADENA H. S.
204 Ba, Kate J.
906 Jerebets, Marta S.
710 Lee, Jae Jin
STOCKTON
HOMESCHOOL
843 LeBaron, Natalie L.
LINCOLN H. S.
160 Chien, Nathaniel G.
MIDDLE COLLEGE H. S.
836 Rico, Trinity Pauline B.
STUDIO CITY
HARVARD - WESTLAKE SCHOOL
700 Ayala-McCormick, Diego C.
773 Barkin, Jordan Z.
628 Choi, Gina
742 Feng, Kylin
904 Gilbert, Simon R.
999 Gong, Anna
999 Halloran, Eleanor L.
999 Hoyang, Angel G.
160 Kim, Nicole
522 Lee, Sarah
164 Lu, Vivian
254 Luo, Yi Ying
522 Malouf, Jarett E.
999 Park, Aaron
457 Ring, Adin L.
000 Rodriguez, Mason L.
200 Swartz, Zachary J.
999 Tauh, Pavan K.
209 Tufeld, Samuel T.
907 Weinraub, Anthony M.
SUNNYVALE
FREMONT H. S.
302 Chen, Shaina M.
000 Ghanta, Shivani
301 Konakalla, Neha
836 Manner, Katia A.
459 Patel, Aayush
164 Sakai, Hikari N.
501 Sriram, Niyati
202 Wang, Frank H.
170 Wang, Michael Y.
THE KING'S ACADEMY
000 Jang, Esther
999 Pan, Edith T.
300 Wong, Kyle K.
TEMECULA
CHAPARRAL H. S.
000 Paez, Berlin G.
GREAT OAK H. S.
168 Han, James J.
999 O'Kray-Murphy, Delaney M.
TEMECULA VALLEY H. S.
999 Munro, Robert Z.
170 Park, Allyson E.
TEMPLE CITY VISTA
TEMPLE CITY H. S. RANCHO BUENA VISTA H. S.
742 Chen, Jason 999 Pihl, Catherine A.
999 Hou, Pojen
430 Lai, Melissa Z. WALNUT
450 Wong, Kyle
WALNUT H. S.
450 Hua, Renee
THOUSAND OAKS 459 Lo, Eugene Y.
LA REINA H. S. 999 MacLeith, Ransom M.
000 Matus, Jenna M. 628 Taing, Amanda L.
WALNUT CREEK
THOUSAND OAKS H. S.
455 Kurata, Ronan LAS LOMAS H. S.
162 Siegel, Kate J.
TORRANCE WEST COVINA
HOMESCHOOL SOUTH HILLS H. S.
209 Covey, Claire J. 160 Banh, Danika E.
454 Lin, Danna
SOUTH H. S. 522 Lu, Christopher T.
999 Bass, Elisa
300 Kim, Da Y. WEST HILLS
201 Lau, Timothy D. CHAMINADE COLLEGE
450 Ma, Ezekiel C.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
303 Martinez, Aarin J. 836 Delgado, Spencer P.
467 Sevilla, Yara B.
WEST H. S. 999 Wadhwani, Elana A.
300 Lee, Jaeinn
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
OAKS CHRISTIAN H. S.
TRACY
TRACY JOINT UNION H. S. 999 Feinfield, Alexander J.
450 Feinfield, Justin A.
843 Nehra, Surya D.
451 Kilpatrick, Chandler B.
TURLOCK WESTLAKE H. S.
TURLOCK H. S.
000 Chian, Franklin
162 Bains, Mehtaab S.
000 Chick, Saralynn M.
162 Rashidi, Neema
907 Sharp, Maya
999 Tatum, Robert M.
TUSTIN 843 Thuillier, Davis S.
TUSTIN H. S. 467 Wang, Eric
451 Adams, Kade 999 Zhang, Albert
450 Ho, Bryan
WESTMINSTER
UKIAH LA QUINTA H. S.
DEVELOPING VIRTUE 300 Trinh, Tiffany
SECONDARY SCHOOL 999 Vu, Kaitlyn
720 Gracia-Zhang, Miguel
WHITTIER
LA SERNA H. S.
UNION CITY
JAMES LOGAN H. S. 628 Lien, Kyle J.
175 Cho, Nicholas
WILDOMAR
185 Grewal, Abhijeet S.
ELSINORE H. S.
303 Hu, Derek
185 Leffler, London C.
990 Kona, Nikhil E.
160 Liao, Bryce
201 Shen, Tong WOODLAND HILLS
457 Sun, Albert H. EL CAMINO REAL CHARTER H. S.
200 Barlow, Hanna N.
VACAVILLE 160 Neyyan, Josephine
VACAVILLE H. S.
000 Kato, Corey WOODSIDE
WOODSIDE H. S.
501 Bhavsar, Allison M.
VALENCIA 467 Kraus, Mollie R.
VALENCIA H. S. 833 Woods, Laurel R.
907 Farrow, Ryan W. 168 Zhou, Pearl Q.
999 Lee, Grace Y.
790 Moore, Autumn J.
628 Tanwar, Ashita
YORBA LINDA
HOMESCHOOL
250 Salladin, Cathryn G.
WEST RANCH H. S.
836 Chang, Megan YORBA LINDA H. S.
171 Cho, Shane F. 160 Foroushani, Shawyun
710 Kim, Joshua Y. 160 Tang, Melody L.
999 Kim, Scott J.
970 Leigh, Vivila M.
999 Mohanty, Gokul
628 No, Jennifer
VAN NUYS
VAN NUYS H. S.
000 Han, Woo Zhong
454 Lee, Claire
999 Park, Allen
VENTURA
BUENA H. S.
628 Pal, Tanushree R.
VILLA PARK
HOMESCHOOL
450 Wedell, Colton
VILLA PARK H. S.
451 Niizawa, Joseph M.
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