The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) is proud to announce that 14 seniors have qualified as 2019 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. Here they are:
From Valencia High School, the ten students are Sienna Bishop, Daniel Detchev, Andrew Huh, Caitlin Lee, Curtis Liu, Lauren Mard, Nicole Park, Jackie Pierce, Bryce Tsuyuki, and Adelina Woltkamp.
Yorba Linda High School had four students including Aino Hakkinen, Blake Han, Isaiah Seo, and Andrew Song.
Yorba Linda High School’s 2019 National Merit Semifinalists.
Valencia High School’s 2019 National Merit Semifinalists.
Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 64th 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 about $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 more than half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
In addition, the District also had a large amount of 2019 National Merit Commended Students for the school year. This includes 2 students from El Dorado High School, 3 from Esperanza High School, 1 from Parkview School, 42 from Valencia High School, and 8 from Yorba Linda High School. Here they are:
El Dorado High School (2)
- Madeline King
- Daniel Laguilles
Esperanza High School (3)
- Alex Arellano
- Chloe Laguna
- Elizabeth Wiriadinata
Parkview School (1)
- Kelly Kudlik
Valencia High School (42)
- Max Adams
- Armaan Bhatia
- Karen Bhatt
- Kara Brushwyler
- Con Chang-Chien
- Chloe Chavez
- Jordan Chen
- Natalie Chen
- Nicole Chen
- William Chung
- Sunay Dagli
- Anooj Desai
- Alex Duong
- Avery Eun
- Justin Figueroa
- Amanda Fortner
- Alexandro Gomez
- Siffat Haq
- Garrett Ho
- Noah Holland
- Jasmin Joshi
- Lis Joshy
- Neil Kamdar
- Emily Kusumoputro
- Dana Kwan
- Caominh Le
- Chris Leung
- Chelsea Ly
- Jenna McCloskey
- Ethan Moy
- Ashley Nguyen
- Brian Nishimine
- Joseph Park
- Ayush Somani
- Rachel Soong
- Kailey Suda
- Nicholas Toller
- James Tran
- Kristen Tsai
- Stephen Vo
- Megan Vu
- Victor Yoo
Yorba Linda High School (8)
- Lauren Bui
- Amanda Chung
- Wesley Ho
- Kolya Isterabadi
- Payton Janish
- Noor Khan
- James Salvador
- Jenna Weitzman
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2019 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2019 competition by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Excellent work, PYLUSD scholars!
Valencia High School administrators pictured with the school’s 2019 National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Students.
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