Thirty-Eight Lake Washington School District (LWSD) high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists on Sept. 13.

Sixteen thousand high school seniors nationwide qualified. About 15,000 semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level. More than half will win a National Merit Scholarship. These students will be able to continue in the competition for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $32 million.

Students qualified for these awards by completing the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The semifinalists include the highest scoring students in each state. The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors.

Redmond’s LWSD National Merit semifinalists:

International Community School:

Nour Ayad

Yaniv Schwartz

Lake Washington High School:

Samuel Dorsey

Nikola Tesla STEM High School:

Christina Goto

Rashida Hakim

Natali Kendal-Freedman

Prerana Kulkarni

Anne Lee

Neha Nagvekar

Parth Nain

Vaishnavi Phadnis

Frederick Qin

Suchi Sridhar

Yury Sudzilouski

Anna Vasyura

Brandon Yue

Redmond High School:

August Chen

Trevor Christensen

Keenan Ganz

Sophia Hwang

Lucy Jiang

Kathleen Li

Daniel Liu

Rohin Meduri

Virginia Qian

Emma Raffman

Anna Wang