CONROE, TEXAS (December 3, 2024) – The Conroe ISD Board of Trustees recognized the outstanding achievement of the District’s 51 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.
The National Merit Scholarship Finalists will be named in February, while the four levels of Winners will be announced from April to July.
Conroe ISD Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are:
Henry Aceves | Aubrey Harris | Victoria Ou |
|---|---|---|
Sophia Ali | Owen Harris | Matthew Pan |
Braxton Allen | Benjamin Heffernan | Aarushi Pandey |
Breyton Badger | Wyatt Hicks | Maanav Patel |
Inu Baek | Justin Huang | Rohit Pillutla |
Jireh Bermoy | Sarah Kath | Rileigh Rinaudo |
Alexander Bills | Jaxon Luddeke | Daniel Robbins |
Clayton Boyter | Hannah Luke | Mina Santhanakrishnan |
Danill Burnashev | Andres Lynch | Aarush Shenoy |
Gwendolyn Butler | Praseedha Maddipatla | Yuchen Tian |
Nicholas Cheney | David Martin | Nicholas Tyner |
Andrew Cole | John McKenna | Allison Wang |
Nancy Dong | Colton Moore | Evan White |
Jeffery Dou | Royce Morlyasu | Carson Winter |
David Gong | Audrey Nguyen | Lily Woolf |
James Greaves | Brian Nwugbana | Isabel Ye |
Corwin Harper | Jaron Oldenburg | Matthew Yu |
Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.
To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.
Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.