More Students Named National Merit Scholars

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced today that 23 recent Fulton County graduates have been named National Merit Scholars. In addition to the prestigious National Merit Scholar distinction, these 2012 seniors earned National Merit scholarships from participating colleges.

had five students named to the list.

College-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners:

Alpharetta High School
Navya R. Nadimpalli
Kyle R. Seebohm

Brandon M. Danzig
Allison M. Riley

Angel Chen
Frank A. Mu
Leo T. Wang

Milton High School
Srinidhi Chaganty
Samuel M. Hepburn

Alexander Heldman
Ethan P. Everett
Yue Guo
Sarah M. Lau
Arvind S. Narayan
Vignesh Sivashanmugam
Hunter Stewart
Albert E. Tanubrata
Nitin Venugopal

Benjamin J. Beker
Grace J. Hsu
Alexander M. Sheldon
Cooper B. Surrett
Muhammad T. Wasim

In April and early May, National Merit announced 21 winners that received scholarships from the and . Five students also were named National Achievement Scholars, a similar academic competition for African-American high school students. A final round of college-sponsored National Merit winners will be announced July 9.

All of the students first were identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test and SAT. They had a record of high academic performance and were endorsed and recommended by their school principal.

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