Alpharetta High School had 25 students
named as Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for
their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2016
competition for National Merit Scholarship Program awards, Commended Students
placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered
the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit
Scholarship Qualifying Test. Row 1 (left to right): Mariana Matias James, Karan
Ganta, Trevor Chun, Gloria Chan, Bethany Graulich, and Mallory Rosten. Row 2
(left to right): Suraj Masand, Jeffrey Whitney, Sree Varma Datla, Hithardhi
Duggireddy, Elizabeth Cohn, Jack Rager, and Aaron Qureshi. Missing from the
photo: Dhakshi Balakumar, Arsh Chopra, Emily Cooley, Ana Gonzalez, Kristin
Graves, Christian Guerrero, Anthony Liu, Gaurav Malhotra, Srikar Thammishetti,
Varun Verma, Wilson Wong and Jessica Yi.
