National Merit Scholarship Program Honorees

Sep 13, 2024 | Susan Messier
National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to the following Overlake students recently recognized by the National Merit Scholarship program. Overlake Class of 2025 has a total of 31 National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Scholars!

There were over 1.3 million students at 21,000 high schools across the country that took the PSAT to qualify for consideration.

To become a National Merit Finalist, a Semifinalist must complete a lengthy application including a school recommendation and submit an SAT or ACT Score. All National Merit Finalists will be announced in February.

The nationwide pool of National Merit Semifinalists represents less than 1% of all high school seniors in the United States.

Congratulations to Overlake’s 11 National Merit Semifinalists:

  1. Anjika Arora
  2. Canran "Alizee" Bian
  3. Robert Mihai Blendea
  4. Anthony Cui
  5. Ruhi Varma Gottumukkala
  6. Oliver Michael Hines
  7. Emily Hope Leung-Kaplan
  8. Bert Botao Liu
  9. Peishan Peng
  10. Dahlia Hope Rasmussen
  11. Ruikuan "Dabao" Zhu

Congratulations to Overlake’s 20 National Merit Commended Scholars:

  1. Ved Anand
  2. Avani Bansal
  3. Emma Bee
  4. Sara Cameron Bernier
  5. Rohan Raj Butani
  6. Theodore Kras Chapman
  7. Kedar VenkataSai Chintalapati
  8. Brandon Douvia
  9. Ayma Fawad
  10. Thomas Paul Herink
  11. Olena Khetan
  12. Sienna Mengjen Lai
  13. Ashley Lee
  14. Hayato Nagai
  15. Theodore I. Oltean
  16. Andy Que
  17. Sawyer Seppo Sarcot
  18. Anirudh Sridharan
  19. Aiden Michael Treadwell
  20. Ellie Yun