Merit Scholarship semifinalists
The National Merit Scholarship Corp. today released its list of some 16,000 scholarship-program semifinalists.
These students, now high-school seniors, were among the top-scoring high-school juniors in each state who took the PSAT (Preliminary SAT) in 2005. Semifinalists may become finalists eligible for scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corp., colleges and universities and corporate sponsors.
The private Lakeside School and Garfield High School, a Seattle public school, topped the list with 34 and 19 semifinalists, respectively. The two schools routinely lead the Seattle area in semifinalists.
Seattle-area semifinalists:
Auburn Riverside High School: Jack Peace
Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge Island: Christopher Ferguson, Michael Hopkins, Ben Hudgens, Luke Jensen, Kathleen Saucier, Peter Schwab
Ballard High School, Seattle: Chester Antieau, Marian Deuker, Shelly Najjar
The Bush School, Seattle: Dacy Knight, Caroline Wilson
Enumclaw High School: Kelsey Laroche
Evergreen High School, Seattle: Charles Loeffler
Garfield High School, Seattle: Abraham Allison, Rhiannon Bronstein, Jian Chu, Andrew Girardeau Dale, Adam Hesterberg, Pranoti Hiremath, Kyle Johnsen, Jacqueline Lin, Adrian McDonnal, Devin Mooers, Devin Moore, Kari A. Olson, Ian Robinson, Alexander Rudee, Todd Sigley, Kazimer Skubi, Aric Skurdal, Maya Sugarman, Elliott Woo
Holy Names Academy, Seattle: Kristin Brezinski, Abigail Burns, Amanda Wang, Rachel Wishkoski
Home School: Matthew Peterson (Seattle) Highline High School, Burien: Kari L. Olson
Ingraham High School, Seattle: Alexander Hyde-Wright
Kentlake High School, Kent: Natasza Posielski
Kentridge High School, Kent: Eric DeJong
King's High School, Shoreline: Brittany Morgan
Lakeside School, Seattle: Thomas Austin, Lauren Balter, Elias Bench, Simone Childs-Walker, Erin Crall, Sarah DeSoto, Michael Drake, Anthea Fernandes, Yingoi Gu, Elizabeth Harlow, Isabel Hujoel, Lindsay Hull, Lucas Hussey, Vassily Kutyavin, James Lambert, Jeremy Larus-Stone, Beatrice Liem, Katherine Lund, Lilah Melzer, Cameron Myhrvold, EilisO'Neill, Dylan O'Shea, Galen Pizzorno, Grace Remington, Mae Rice, Henry Riely, Daniel Rodriguez, Peri Sasnett, Laurel Schmidt, Deepa Sivarajan, Lauren Tsuji, Victoria Verstegen, Amanda Wolf, David Wyde
Liberty High School, Renton: Liana Posch, Paul Szilard
Mount Rainier High School, Des Moines: Anna Cunningham, Maxwell Ferguson, Jake Schual-Berke
Nathan Hale High School, Seattle: Ethan Brotherton, Zachary Hing, Nigel Peltier
The Northwest School, Seattle: Peter Kirk, Zachary Liao
Roosevelt High School, Seattle: Abraham Bae, Elin Rummel, Matthew Yelin, Lu Zheng
Seattle Academy: Taylor Helgren, Samuel Johnson
Seattle Preparatory School: Brendan Schlagel
Shorecrest High School, Shoreline: Marcus Kelly, Katherine Kremer, Mica Smith, Sam Weissman
Shoreline Christian High School: Brandon Taniguchi
Shorewood High School, Shoreline: Nicholas Brennan, Caitlin Jacques
Tahoma High School, Covington: Allyssa Guzman
Thomas Jefferson High School, Auburn: Jonathan Brebner, Justin Knutson, Caroline Lee, Christopher Mount, Tyler Rosenbaum
Transition for Early Entrance Program, Seattle: Cynthia Hsu, Daniel Mills
University Preparatory Academy, Seattle: Diana Hamilton