These North Alabama students are National Merit Semifinalists

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — More than 70 students across North Alabama were selected as National Merit Semifinalists — staking their claim as some of the top students in the entire state.

According to nationalmerit.org, around 1.5 million students apply for the program each year. 16,000 of those are designated as semifinalists, or the highest scoring students on the PSAT/NMSQT in their individual state.

From that pool of students, the field will be narrowed even more to name the finalists for three types of merit scholarships:

$2,500 National Merit Scholarships
Corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards
College-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards

Learn more about the process of how to apply for the National Merit Scholarship Program here.

In the State of Alabama, the Madison City school system boasted the most students selected from an individual school district with 32. MCSS was followed by Vestavia Hills with 21 students and Hoover at 18 students.

“These results once again prove that it does not matter where you live or go to school in Madison, every school is one of the nation’s best,” said Dr. Ed Nichols, the Superintendent of Madison City Schools.

The students selected as National Merit Semifinalists in North Alabama include:

Alabama School of Cyber Technology & Engineering

Joshua D. Letlow

Athens High School

Asa H. Savoie

Boaz High School

Adit N. Patel

Bob Jones High School

Thais R. Arslanbekov
Elaine V. Bao
Neha S. Chopade
Puja S. Chopade
Anna E. Digges
Vincent T. Dinh
Kennedy G. Gore
Williams B. Hu
Bryce C. League
Cam N. Nguyen
Justin J. Pan
Ashwin Prabhakar
Lilian Qu
Pranav N. Ramesh
Soorya N. Ramesh
Craig H. Stephenson
Alexander M. Stern
Constance Wang
Jonathan L. Yang

Brooks High School

Benjamin M. Underwood

Grissom High School

Erin F. Howard
Danielle I. Kim
Hannah K. Lemons

Guntersville High School

Evan B. Hill

Hartselle High School

Brody Boster
Jacob E. Bowling
Reid Ellis
Eli Moore
Parker Stewart

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