9/13/2017 -- Twenty-five Parkway seniors have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

 

About 16,000 students nationwide were selected as semifinalists, and 90 percent will go on to become finalists. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $32 million.

 

The Parkway students are:

 

Central High

Daniel Buffum

Justin Fang

Eyal Kattan

John Kim

Anusha Manjunath

Jonathan Yn

 

North High

Sarah Butterfield

Saayli Khambekar

 

South High

Melissa Behnke

Andrew Berndt

William Chen

Natasha Goel

Justin Klopfer

Samuel Modde

Kaitlyn Moran

Athena Shen

Emily Xu

 

West High

Jack Burraston

Victor Folk

Salomi Inje

Haran Kumar

Abdullah Kuziez

Margaret Newberry

Rachel Wang

Alec Zhou