2025 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists

The Bellevue School District is proud to announce the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists! Congratulations to all the BSD scholars who entered and will move on to the next round of the competition!

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition among high school students for recognition and college scholarships that began in 1955. The program is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC^®), a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance. United States high school students enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT^®), which serves as an initial screen of over 1.3 million entrants each year, and by meeting published program entry and participation requirements.

2025 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

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.

In September 2024, more than 16,000 Semifinalists were named, and these academically talented high school seniors will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 6,870 scholarships, worth nearly $26 million. National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists from the Bellevue School District include:

Bellevue High School

• Hsueh, Evan
• Ngo, Kayla
• Zhang, Owen

Interlake High School

• Badre Narayan, Vaahini
• Bhattacharya, Reetam
• Bhattacharya, Rittik
• Duddupudi, Rithvik
• Gupta, Daksh
• Jiang, Aidan
• Kang, Inue
• Kim, Matthias
• Ko, Caden
• Lawton, Angelina
• Lee, Eric
• Li, Youyi
• Liu, Chen
• Lu, Daniel
• Luo, Sichen
• Sharma, Ashwika
• Singh, Parnika
• Wang, Dorah
• Zhang, Raymon
• Zhou, Alex

International School

• Bloch, Nathanael
• Nathani-Sim, Sasha

Newport High School

• Cai, Andrew
• Cao, Andrew
• Chen, Ryan
• Choi, Daniel
• Fong, Christopher
• Ha, Alexander
• Han, Rachel
• Huang, Steven
• Li, Eugene
• Li, Maxwell
• Luo, Brandon
• Ni, Jessica
• Ouyang, Junhan
• Pai, Andrew
• Prabhath, Aadithya
• Shao, Victoria
• Tran, Duong
• Wu, Allen
• Xu, Katie
• Xu, Sophia
• Yin, Aiden
• Zhou, Audrey
• Zou, Blake Xianming

Sammamish High School

• Eng, Joseph

National Merit Scholarship winners of 2025 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 382,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

If you or your student received this recognition, but was not included on this list, please contact communityrelations@bsd405.org.