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Fairfax County Public Schools has announced that 848 students earned recognition as National Merit Commended Students, a 22% increase from the previous year.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation sent Letters of Commendation to the students through their high schools, recognizing their academic ability and potential for success in college.
The school division updated its original list after a clerical error caused several students to be omitted. The corrected honorees are:
Annandale High School
Jasmin Dinh, Tyler Miller and Khyber Zaheer.
Centreville High School
Sankalp Agarwal, Antonio Agosto Reyes, James Anderson, Katherine Bergersen, Vidula Bharath, Lance Choi, Hannah Gaffney, Ella Hartman, Milan Jovancevic, Suryaa Kalyan, Claire Kim, Gene Kim, Irene Kim, John Kim, Samuel Kim, Jenny Park, Joelle Park, Emma Parkinson, Joshua Pun, Lenild Ramirez, Sreeya Sangaraju, Lauren Shim, Claire Shin, Pritham Singh, Alexander Sobol, Naya Sohi, Nathan Solomon, Hyunjae Sur, Simon Waldman and Daniella Yim.
Chantilly High School
Ayush Agarwal, Shaurya Ahuja, Nihar Anand, Claire Baek, Aryan Banda, Mila Basto, Andrew Bedell, Aarna Bhamidipati, Sarah Chang, Hailey Cheng, Matthew Chu, Hannah Chung, Elvin Duong, Thomas Duong, Vivaan Dutt, Michael Edwards, Titus Er, Ethan Frazier, Shivali Hariharan, Ayaka Iketani, Shruti Jagan, Rishi Jagarlapudi, Muthya John, Meenakshi Kandagatla, Aditi Karnik, Tejas Kasi, Jinlae Kim, Maxwell Kim, Sua Kim, Conor Kirby, Kaushal Kuchimanchi, Joseph Kwon, Jonathan Lee, Elizabeth Lim, Tina Lin, Shruthi Mandava, Ishaan Mantrala, Shomili Nandy, Doan Huy Nguyen, Rhea Pabbathi, Ishan Palapra, Shubham Patel, Ananya Peterson, Meghana Potla, Rithika Potluri, Aaditya Prajapati, Zain Qazi, Aryan Raj, Sudeep Rawal, Vybhav Reddy, Lucien Santana, Rounawk Sinha, Veronica Sokolovski, Aaron Son, Advik Sood, Raylen Tang, Cedric Tchommo, Shasin Timalsina, Samanvi Tummala, Nishanth Vadlamani, Siddartha Vallarapu, Molly Wilhelm, Sirichandana Yakkala, Daniel Yoon and Raneem Zekeria.
Edison High School
Maggie Chen, Mateus Garbaliauskas, Jacob Hannan, Zoey Hewton, Josephine Holmgren, Lydia Israel, Saifullah Mahmood, Lily Newman, Justine Olson, Sophia Shi, Antonio Villavicencio and Tara West.
Fairfax High School
Peter Choi, Arhan Desai, Kevin Huynh, Priscilla Jang, Laura Johnson, Aniket Nair-Das, Sean Nguyen, Samuel Park, Fiona Rice, Noelle Sackie, Nicholas Schwille, Siddharth Shankar, Ashley Shin and Sheryl Zhang.
Falls Church High School
Eloise Gibson, Sagar Kapadia, Eleanor Kim, Sarah Le, Anjali Modak, Penelope Mollen, Alexander Neff, Darren Nong, Georgia Pirrello, James Schaal, Kevin Tillett and Sasha Wendell.
Hayfield Secondary School
Eric Goering, Abram Henderson, Marioud Kheir, Lina Kong, Amika Phalalong, Felix Trinidad and James Yakes.
Herndon High School
Renee Deroche, Eja Gatewood, Reagan Giuliano, Christopher Ho and Isaac Malik.
Justice High School
Chloe Bernasconi and Bluebell Linden.
Lake Braddock Secondary School
Ethan Agrawal, Cameron Chan, Allen Chen, Aviva Cohen, Christine Dang, Mishka Datta, Michael Day, Paige Goble, Emily Herald, Kyle Herald, Bill Huang, Taylor Hurt, Nathan Hyde, Mackenzie Jackson, Anna Jarvie, Jaejin Jun, Bryce Karns, Cameron Khani, Sae Kim, Zion Kim, Kara Kweon, Joshua Lee, Benjamin Magee, David Niculescu-Maier, Brandon Pang, Alexander Ploetz, Maya Renshaw, Sela Rongero, Amelie Rubin, Caleb Schuttinga, Andrew Sekera, Mary Seo, Victoria Simmons, Rachel Svercl, Rachel Tran, Mason Wycinsky and Brian Yi.
Langley High School
Hannah Abraham, Sarah Abraham, Jai Arora, Arjun Atreya, Anthony Aue, Tanishka Bagade, Eric Bhandari, Ray Cai, John Center, Humphrey Chan, Evan Chen, Joanna Chen, Victor Cho, Jibreel Chohan, Lillian Choi, Katherine Chopra, Sophia Christiano, Connor Chun, Megan Connery, Catalina Coronado, Lara De, Ben Doan, Rhys Frischling, Zackery Gast, Jacob Glover, Elizaveta Godlevskaia, Miles Gu, Samar Haddad, Terra Han, Gabriella Huh, Nicholas Huynh, Adam Kim, Daniel Kim, Julie Kinkead, Payton Kupferberg, Lewis Le, Shreya Lele, Nya Lewin, Lianhan Li, Nathan Lim, Chloe Lin, Asiya Malik, Yian Mao, Alexander McNeill, Sanika Meka, Fernando Meza, Claire Mo, Katherine Murphy, Katharine Myshrall, Emily New, Quyen Nguyen, Sophia Ojo, Jack Paral, Christian Perrin, Jiawen Qi, Sonia Qiao, Amenah Rashid, Michael Raso, Maya Rodriguez, Akaash Sachdeva, Saraswati Sastry, Aarnav Sathu, Brayden Schlegel, Logan Schwartz, Ethan Shin, Shiv Singh, Alyssa Sun, Sienna Sung, Kriesh Tivare, Efimia Tripathi, Saanvi Uppalapati, Abhay Velliyatt, Riley Wallace, Nina Wang, Colin Wiltbank, Panat Wongsangpaiboon, Daniella Wu, Leah Wu, Chloe Xie, Lang Xiong, Meredith Yu, Isabella Zhang, Yali Zhu.
Lewis High School
Caden McLeary and Raiyan Rahman.
Madison High School honorees:
Madeleine Ahrens, Kennedy Alltucker, Gabrielle Antoine, Judith Backman-Cruz, Dylan Ballagh, Rushil Bansal, Preston Beckwith, Corinne Bremer, Lucy Broadbent, Isabel Buescher, Asena Cenkci, Michelle Cerga, Akhil Chada, Maxwell Chan, James Chung, Sean Clinton, Jinzhu Cui, Isaac Gantsoudes, Ariyanna Ghala, Hunter Guthrie, Arjun Hans, Clara Hatcher, Megan Hutchison, Zane Javeri, Isobel Johnson, Cavanagh Keelin, Gwyneth Kemeny, Sophia Kim, Ksenia Koltovich, Caroline Kugler, Henri Martirosyan, Adam Najmeddine, Zakaria Najmeddine, David Nam, Valeria Novoa, Samra O’Beirne, Kathryn Penna, Delaney Pfleghardt, Eva Santos, Gretchen Schmitt, Olivia Sim, Nora Stein, Alexander Tang, Mark Uchitel, Ramsey Warner, Owen Winter and Gray Woods.
Marshall High School honorees:
Rayan Alhaidari, Arash Behdad, Charlotte Buntoro, Flann Campbell, Jamie Choe, Julia Friefeld, Nola Gramatikov, Ryan Hannah, Russell Hartge, Stephanie Hildebrandt, Katherine Hosch, Kelly Hwang, Clara Karnes, Azad Latif, Caden Mitchell, Kathy Nguyen, Nathaniel Ni, Joshua Paine, Michael Romanov, Alexander Rozenberg, Mehran Saidmuradov, Vihaan Shah, Nora Sim, Zoe Sin, Ella Steele, Georgia Streett, Jacqueline Tennant, Thomas Tillemann and Millicent Vanstory.
McLean High School honorees:
Aimee Abraham, Zoe Adams-Christian, Buse Arici, Jay Ben Nassar, Claire Baiyang, Nayan Balebail, Ziya Bhasin, Lila Binder, Carolyn Brown, Pranav Budharaju, Edward Burros, Sean Chee, Jiayu Chen, Micah Chlan, Samuel Cohen, Zachary Cramer, Elizabeth DeMartino, Wonwoo Do, Vikram East, Nader EL-Farhan, Julian Estrada, Rahm Fishman, John Frantz, Alex Gan, Leo Gates, Alexandra Glass, Noam Gottesman, Sunay Gupta, Luke Hadden, Caleb Han, Rama Istandar, Guillermo Javierre Carmona, Annamarie Jenkins, Michael Jiang, Kushal Jivan, Ryan Kang, Aashna Kapur, Andrew Ketende, Sara Knauss, Jolie Korfonta, Boya Kou, Alexa Krystopolski, Maxwell Kusano, Yael Lan, Matthew LaPointe, Joshua Lee, Alexander Li, Connor Li, Jason Li, Morgan Li, Marina Lopez, Michael Ma, Hemish Prateek Malekar, Joshua Massery, Ethan Mei, Indira Melvin, Kaelan Monroe, Andrew Nguyen, Lucianna Nuzzo, Nicole Purevtugs, Agathiya Ramalingam, Kevin Ren, Anna Sargent, Roman Sargent, Eugene Schweikert, Shivansh Sharma, Annika Singh, Manushri Singh, Varish Sood, Angie Sun, Colin Supik, Vivek Suri, Elizabeth Templer, Chrysostomos Tsiglifis, Danneke Vazquez, Claire Wang, Emma Weinshall, Jasper Willems, Jeffrey Yin, Harry Yu, Sovan Vipou Yun, Rachel Zamsky and David Zeng.
Oakton High School honorees:
Anju Advani, Mumtahina Ahmed, Catherine Allred, Haru Arai, Aashee Balani, Aniketh Bandlamudi, Yeshwanth Bharathi, James Burke, Devan Charaipotra, Xuan Chen, Roshan Custer, Sophie Fang, Nicholas Flanigan, Bradley Garcia, Everett Ha, Sophie Harte, Abigail Hegg, Chunmin Huang, Arhan Jain, Dylan Jain, Amrith Jayanth, Vincent Ji, Isabel Joseph, Joshua Kline, Ian Ko, Paul Koh, Amy Lee, Dohye Lee, Gabriel Lee, Jing Lin, Chase Louie, Kenneth Lu, Vedika Luthra, Emily Marsh, Benson McAllister, Anya Nehra, Eileen Nguyen, Natalie Nguyen, Fabrizio Ozkan, Diya Palaniappan, Brinda Patel, Ashwin Potluri, Kendra Rempel, Elias Rhee, Yusuf Saeed, Daenyll Shah, Yelyzaveta Sharova, Chuxi Sheng, Kasra Shuman, Gabriel Soong, Lyhawk Synn, Irena Tan, Borna Tarashi, Helen Tosounidis, Ziheng Wang, Isabelle Whang, Jason Wong, Jennifer Xu, Xindi Yang, Alexander Yu and Victoria Yu.
Robinson Secondary School honorees:
Isaac Alemayehu, Riley Baker, Trisha Bhardwaj, Dominic Chutuape, Samuel Clark, Skylar Dalil, Andrew Erbrecht, Kira Gilligan, Niles Hoffman, Ari Horgan, Leeban Hussein, John Koerner, Cae Larmoyeux, Jack Lewis, Paolo Mascola, Christopher McNiff, Madelyne Ngo, Jonathan Nickel, Tobias Ong, Michael Orilla, Alexandra Price, Matthew Read, Enoch Sanders, Lillian Schermer, Andrew Schulwitz, Isabel Sears, Tabitha Shull, Hunter Snow, Robert Wible and Albert Zhu.
South County High School honorees:
Alexis Amparo, Nicole Engle, Jason Ha, Shazi Hanania, Ryan Horn, William Lavender, Nicholas Patel, Nathan Pham and Elizabeth Spencer.
South Lakes High School honorees:
Ateeb Afzal, Max Alfert, Mia Buntin, William Burks, Alexandra Callahan, Jackson Cariaga, Noelle Cohen, Aidan Edinger, Emilie Fiske, Zoya Ghantiwala, Rosa Golac, Yonatan Goldman, Bryant Hall, Alexandros Hejmo, Maximus Hong, Olivia Ingelfield, Milo Kappatos, Ema Kauffman, Elijah Koh, Eric Loizeaux, Keyla Niederstrasser, Rasika Phadke, Nikhil Risbud, Fiona Shaw, Colby Smith, Hayato Tano, Liam West, Milo Wilkins, Jonah Wright and Turner Yates.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology honorees:
Mayeda Alom, Summer Alwood, Kamsi Anyalebechi, Duchmaa Ariunbold, Ani Avetisyan, Julia Baer, Dheethya Balaji, Zoie Bantasan, Anish Baradhi, Faith Barbour, Taran Bhandari, Aditi Bhat, Gavin Bhulipongsanon, Tyler Bogue, Nick Boukens, Eric Cai, Joseph Chang, Andrew Chen, Kevin Chen, Molly Chen, Prajeet Chitty, Daniel Choi, Norris Chowdhury, Joo Eun Chung, Ella Clarke, David Coley, Avery Conklin, Anneli Connell, Megha Dabbeeru, Owen Davenport, William Depew, Hrishi Desai, Rasika Deshpande, Fiona Demetria Devaraj, Anush Devkar, Ruby Diao, Malvika Dias, Jimmy-Quoc Anh Do, Nandini Duggaraju, Pranav Dulam, Sydney Eom, William Fadden, Kohlen Farah, Sina Farchtchi, Hayden Fecteau, Daniel Feng, Jonathan-Joel Forson, Aryan Garg, Thomas Gay, Darwin Goldstein, Julian Guevara, Moses Guo, Sophia Guo, Aanya Gupta, Josie Hackley, Sydney Hammond, Mohammed Hashemi, Emma He, Amelia Hicks, Rhesa Hicks, Sophia Hou, Gabriel Huang, Adam Islam, Austen Ji, Sribhaavya Jilludumudi, Caleb Jobe, Pranav Kalidindi, Vineel Kandala, Sarah Kangas, Raghav Kasi, Nivaan Kaushal, Saatvik Kesarwani, Suraj Kidiyoor, Oliver Kiker, Anna Kim, Colin Kim, Halin Kim, Jaeyoon Kim, Kara Kim, Olivia Kim, Rayna Kim, Ryan Kim, Elizabeth Klein, Christoph Knaeble, Aditi Kodukula, Samhita Kotamraju, Prakhya Koya, Nikhil Krishna, Smaran Kudapa, Dina Kurdi, Moubon Kurukumbi, Maddox Lazarte Franco, Joon Won Lee, Isabella Lee-Truesdell, Shanya Liao, Leo Lim, Angela Liu, Lucy Lu, Fiona MacGarvey, Rishi Madduluri, Satchit Mainali and Katherine Maizel Daly.
Samantha Maloney, Ariana Mamedova, Caitlin McKelvey, Ashwin Menachery, Arhan Menta, Clinton Morimoto, Owen Murphy, Veda Murthy, Arjun Nadakuduru, Aravind Naidu, Anna Najafi, Aditi Narayan, Anavi Nellutla, Chance Nguyen, Edward Nguyen, Emily Noh, Mikaela Nowinski, Kobimtochi Odo, Venice Olawuyi, Ella Oliver, Vedha Paidipally, Navya Pandula, Isaac Park, Avni Patel, Rishi Pathuri, Samuel Payne, Mariagracia Peralta, Elizabeth Philip, Natalia Pico, Isabella Pikner, Harini Prabhu, Diana Prudius, Fabeun Rahman, Daksha Rajagopal, Neil Ramesh, Yohan Ramirez Herrera, Nikhil Rao, Andrew Raptis, Nayel Rehman, Xavier Reyes, Vikram Rudraraju, Shreraj Sainani, Akhil Saladi, Brian Sanchez Saavedra, Aditi Saravanan, Ishita Sengar, Arrush Shah, Nishka Shah, Aryaa Sharma, Bunyodbek Shomurodov, Nayan Shrestha, Amrit Singh, Pratham Singh, Rohan Singh, Ruhaan Singh, Ryan Singh, Kent Slate, Aarya Srikanth, Samuel Stankiewicz, Abigail Steele, Sanjeev Subramanian, Diya Sundaresan, Jayan Tammireddi, George Taylor, Aayush Tendulkar, Alaura Thapa, Jonah Treitler, Dylan Truncellito, Moe Ma Kha Tun, Sophia Tzvetanov, Medha Valluri, Claire Varughese, Sriharshini Vedula, Srivatsa Veera, Aruni Veluri, Saketha Vijay, Sthavir Vinjamuri, Yihao Wang, Surin Wettimuny, Margaret Wright, Siddarth Yalamanchili, Maria Yayloyan, Manya Yellepeddy, Bhavya Yendapalli, Summer Yoo, Anthony Zhao, Emma Zheng, Lucas Zhu and Michelle Zuo.
West Potomac High School honoree:
West Potomac High School’s honoree is Byron Leeth.
West Springfield High School honorees:
Matthew Alexander, Aeden Bennett, Amelia Bourke, Michael Castellano, Alessa Ciccarello, Holly Collins, Caitlyn Delaney, Aaron Dierks, Sina Endale, Lorenzo Felline, Helen Jiang, Reed Johnson, Leah Kim, Wonjun Kim, Max Le, Taiyo Lloyd, Dat Mai, Victor Mancilla, Whitney Moffa, Matthew Pedrotty, Wenlan Qiu, Annabelle Schulz, Nina Schweigert, Sawyer Smith, Trey Whitton, Freddy Winiker and Tristan Yoon.
Westfield High School honorees:
Hamza Abudiab, Saanvi Aggarwal, Anay Bansal, Mary Campbell, Benjamin Carey, Veera Chidanandan, Eleanor Cigler, Gurjot Dhaliwal, Lucas Greider, Simran Jaggi, Sambhav Jain, Young Min Kim, Abhikrishna Kurapati, Shreya Rachakonda, Mushfiq Rahman, Kunal Singhal, Anya Varghese, Sanjayram Vempati, Susitna Voduru, Mridini Voleti and Lance Zeytoonian.
Woodson High School honorees:
Binisha Adhikari, Diya Anthony, Kavya Balachandar, Daniel Berberian, Graham Bickford, Aiden Brennan, Kaylee Bryson, John Burns, Vivian Chen, Madeline Cho, Dylan Dewsbury, Katherine Ding, Sarah Easter, Lily Eng, Quinten Eng, Claire Frantz, James Giffen, Dag Guessford, Wyatt Hadley, Darci Horne, Phuong Huynh, Shaheer Khan, Jamie Kim, Rachel Kim, Nadia Langer, Ethan Lee, Jacob Lee, Alexander Liu, Nathan Lindemann, Bianca Mata, James McClure, Stella Milam, Alexander Minde, James Ngo, Khoa Nguyen, Lien Nguyen, Ochirdari Otgonbaatar, Ada Qin, Sophia Robertory, Vibu Vishnu Ram, Ramon Shreshta, Victoria Shittu, James Stansbery, Charles-Olivier Thompson, Susan Wang Andera, Ziad Wanna, Barrett Wilford, Noah Yen-Goossens and Andrew Zheng.
The National Merit Scholarship Program has held its annual academic competition since 1955, offering high school students recognition and opportunities for college scholarships. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a nonprofit that receives no government assistance, administers the program.
More than 1.3 million students enter each year by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which provides the competition’s initial screening. Students must also satisfy the program’s published entry and participation rules.
Students with signed opt-out forms on file are not included in the list.