Today, the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. Seventy-one Harker seniors were among those named in the announcement, representing 36 percent of the Class of 2025 and breaking the previous record of 59 students. Semifinalists comprise less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and were selected based on their performance on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test. They are eligible to become finalists after an application process.

The semifinalists from Harker’s Class of 2025 are:

Maya Affaki, Savya Agarwal, Rajas Apte, Shiven Balaji, Aaron Bao, Saanvi Bhargava, Fern Biswas, Marcus Blennemann, Shreyas Chakravarty, Aaron Chen, Daniel Chen, Felix Chen, Harrison Chen, Jiazhi Chen, Audrey Cheng, Claire Cheng, Anderson Chung, Kyra Cui, Audrey Feng, Benjamin Fu, Satvika Gautham, Atharv, Goel, Nelson Gou, Ethan Guan, Aaron Guo, Chiling Han, Anwen Hao, Jacqueline Huang, Mu Jia Jiang, Steven Jiang, Gary Jin, Avery Jones, Akshay Kotamraju, Neil Krishnan, Juliana Li, Kyle Li, Valerie Li, Andrew Liang, Austin Liu, Katerina Matta, Young Min, Emily Mitnick, Sam Parupudi, Adam Pawliger, Songjie Peng, Claire Perng, Kashish Priyam, Rohan Ramkumar, Alicia Ran, Agastya Ravuri, Tiana Salvi, Sidak Sanghari, Jason Shim, Yasmin Sudardsanam, Varun Thvar, Aarush Vailaya, Ethan Wang, Jessica Wang, Elena Weng, Jonathan Xue, Alison Yang, Allison Yang, Grant Yang, Jason Yi, Sahngwie Yim, Melody Yin, Chuyi Zeng, Max Zhai, Eric Zhang, Jeffrey Zhang and Yinan Zhou.