12 Greenhills seniors qualify as National Merit Scholars semifinalists
Twelve Greenhills seniors – approximately 15 percent of the 2018 graduating class – are among 72 Ann
Arbor high school students named semifinalists in this year’s National Merit Scholarship competition.
Approximately 16,000 students nationwide become semifinalists. These semifinalists will have an
opportunity to compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth a combined $32 million that will be offered in the spring.
The Greenhills semifinalists are:
- Harry Bagenstos
- Adam Buchmueller
- Ramya Chigurupati
- Nina Farahanchi
- Evan Fortson
- Evan Kanji
- Bonnie Liu
- Nikhil Navathe
- Amanda Sell
- Emily Wang
- Alexander Wu
- Bharath Yalavarthi
The competition began with approximately 1.6 million juniors at 22,000 U.S. high schools entering the
program by taking the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The national pool of
semifinalists represents less than 1 percent of high school seniors. The number of semifinalists in a state
is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
Students who become finalists compete for three types of scholarships: a National Merit $2,500
Scholarship, awarded on a state representational basis; one of 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit
Scholarships, or about 4,500 college-sponsored Merit Scholarships.
Announcement of the winners begins in April and runs through July, 2018.
