Students Qualify For National Merit Competition

One hundred 11th graders in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District qualified to compete in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition, according to the principals of Palos Verdes and Palos Verdes Peninsula high schools.

Thirty-one juniors at Palos Verdes High School and 69 juniors at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School were among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants of about 1.5 million entrants who took the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Of the approximately 50,000 qualifiers, 16,000 will be named semifinalists. Semifinalists will compete for about 8,300 National Merit Scholarships.

The following students will either be named National Merit Semifinalists or Commended Students:

Palos Verdes High School

• Zoe R. Caron
• Emily Chen
• Jessica L. Chen
• Royce Chen.
• Brian A. Chin
• Christopher Cochran
• Cameron Coulter
• Andrew G. Davis
• Alexandra N. Demetriou
• Erin K. Donahue
• Alexander C. Forsyth
• Krista K. Galleberg
• Mitchell H. Gruen
• Willard P. Hawley
• Olivia J. Hazelrigg
• Miles Irish
• Kevin Jiao
• Kendyl N. Johnson
• Simon H. Joo
• Benjamin Kaveladze
• Diego Leon
• Haley M. Lundberg
• Daniel T. Miller
• Nora L. Potenti
• Hannah D. Rees
• Grace I. Rehaut
• Ben Semel
• Nicole M. Wilkinson
• Nicholas Wolff
• Austin Young
• Alexander Zoeckler

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

• Prashila L. Amatya
• Lisa Ban
• Scott G. Barnes
• Alison J. Bartkowski
• Amanda Q. Bui
• Katie Cha
• Amanda Chang
• Shay S. Chang
• Loren Chen
• Tiffany X. Chen
• Daphne K. Chu
• Daria L. Clark
• Grant Colin
• Adam Daar
• Isabel S. Damiani
• Russell B. Dean
• Satcey S. Dojiri
• Rachel S. Dokko
• Lauren Futami
• Chang Hun Ha
• Gabrielle A. Harwell
• Michael Hashimoto
• Richard Hu
• Jesse Huang
• Isabel Irawan
• Dustin P. Kee
• Delaney J. Kerkhof
• Jong Min Kim
• Sung Hyn Kim
• Rachel A. Klose
• Thomas Kong
• Jared Korotzer
• Raya Kumar
• Alex K. Lee
• Samantha Lee
• Jian Yuan Li
• Darren A. Lim
• Milan M. Martinez
• Andrew R. McFarland
• Giancarlo Y. Merola
• Stephanie Minn
• Yuri S. Motoyama
• Vikram R. Muller
• Kurt M. Murakami
• Leane S. Nasrallah
• Ryan Y. Nguyen
• Audrey A. Omidsalar
• Austin W. Pak
• Kate Y. Park
• Rebecca C. Rein
• Emily Y. Ren
• Anna Reidl
• Sophie W. Sha
• Stacey J. Shen
• Stephen Shen
• Samira Tabatabaiepur
• Emma Tai
• Garrett Thomas
• Brandon K. Wang
• Samantha I. Wathugala
• Michael Wong
• Michelle K. Wong
• Kelly Y. Woo
• Tiffany Wu
• Luther H. Yang
• Kelly W. Wong
• Javana E. Zahedi
• Meicheng Zhang
• Alessandro Zulli

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