The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced today that 55 Harker seniors – nearly 30 percent of the Class of 2024 – have been named semifinalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program. Semifinalists make up less than 1 percent of high school students who took the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test in their junior years. Semifinalists can become finalists by submitting an application that includes information such as their academic record, participation in school activities and awards received.

Neo Alpha, Defne Avkarogullari, Ritu Belani, Kabir Buch, Carey Chang, Justin Chen, Varun Fuloria, Emma Gao, Vardaan Ghai, Arjun Gurjar, Angelina Hu, Trisha Iyer, David Jang, Dilip Jayavant, Amit Karoshi, Reshma Kosaraju, Jordan Labio, Ella Lan, Catherine Li, Joe Li, Sydney Ling, Adrian Liu, Ethan Liu, Thomas Liu, Claire Luo, Vivek Nayyar, Mina Okamoto, Kabir Ramzan, Jack Shen, Ansh Sheth, Julie Shi, Andrew Smith, Ishani Sood, Ananya Sriram, Claire Su, Om Tandon, Andrew Tang, Aniketh Tummala, Valerie Vaisburd, Masha Velikhovskaya, Cynthia Wang, Kaitlyn Wang, Zihua Wang, Michelle Wei, Joelle Weng, Catherine Wong, Max Xing, Olivia Xu, Selina Xu, Fiona Yan, Ella Yee, Jiakai Zhang, Kevin Zhang, Ryan Zhang and Angelina Zhu.