The names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 57th annual National Merit Scholarship Program were recently announced by officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring.

Boulder Valley School District is pleased to announce the names of our 34 semifinalists:

Boulder High School
Sophie Harrington
Andrew Nelson
Natalia Lesjack-Randall
Alexander Toll

Centaurus High School
Megan Valentine

Fairview High School
Jennifer Anderson 
Alexander Black 
Cissy Chen 
William Conway 
Ryan Duffy 
Gibson Farone-Collins
Karen Fu 
Derek Greer
Serena Klein 
Karun Kumar Rao
Nicolas Ledru
Kathryn McClain
Storm Nylen
Elvin Park
Erika Petroy
Kelsey Piper
Emily Randall
Nicholas Schardt
Ved Topkar
Samantha Webster
Evan Witt 
Kristen Witt 
Soyeun Yang

Monarch High School
Nathan Brooks
Maclean Simonson
Tian Zhang

Peak to Peak Charter School
Stephanie Hsu
Allen Magnusson
Stephen Meylor

BVSD congratulates all of these semifinalists and wishes them success in the next stage of the competition.

Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 90 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.

The students and the school will be notified by mid-February of their selection as a National Merit Finalist.