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Congratulations to IMSA’s 28 National Merit Finalists

CONGRATULATIONS to the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) Program!

In the National Merit® Scholarship Program, three types of Merit Scholarship® awards are offered to Finalists: National Merit $2,500 Scholarships, corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards, and college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards. Special Scholarships are awarded to outstanding students who are not Finalists and meet a corporate sponsor’s criteria.

Finalists include:

  • Ananth, Thavaisya
  • Bachhausen, Jakob J.
  • Balachandran, Balaji M.
  • Boddu, Sai R.
  • Daniels, Emilia G.
  • Fan, Kevin
  • Graf, Nathaniel D.
  • Illimoottil, Mathew
  • Im, Jamie C.
  • Katakam, R.
  • Liu, Daniel
  • Liu, Jasmine
  • Manoj, Pranav
  • McClain, William
  • Nelson, Liam B.
  • Ni, Oliver
  • Patel, Advait J.
  • Reddy, Apurva K.
  • Sampathkumaran, Bhargav R.
  • Shackelford, Eric C.
  • Singh, Dev K.
  • Sirais, Cordelia G.
  • Smith, Tyler R.
  • Tang, Andy Y.
  • Tiwari, Siddharth R.
  • Yi, Philip Y.
  • Yoo, Erin
  • Zhang, Edward