The officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of
approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship
Program. 32 students from Alpharetta High School are among these semifinalists.
Row 1 (right to left): Rohan Bagga, Nishant Reddy, Manu Poruthoor, Torus Lu,
Megan Evonsion, Aparna Maddala, Sarah Li, and Shelby Conway. Row 2 (right to
left): Rahul Ramesh, Brian Cai, David Bumsted, Andrew Fu, Haiwen Gui, Susan Lee,
Avni Ahuja, and Wendy Zheng. Row 3 (right to left): Shubhom Bhattacharya,
Varun Tangirala, Richard Pei, Justin Chu, Benjamin Dugger, Katharine Nelson,
Christopher Sun, Michael Horton, and Joel Pozin. Students missing from the photo
are: Kelly Carter, Harrison Feldman (third photo), James Fielding, Joshua Seides (second photo), Alice Tang,
Charles Tantillo, and Derek Wu.