Prosper ISD is pleased to announce the names of the district’s 36 National Merit Commended Scholars and five National Merit Semi-Finalists!  

Every year schools anxiously await the National Merit Scholarship Program announcement of the Commended Scholars and the National Merit Semi-finalists. According to their website, the National Merit Scholarship Program was founded to identify and honor scholastically talented American youth and to encourage them to develop their abilities to the fullest. 

Through this nationwide competition National Merit Scholarships are awarded to program Finalists and Special Scholarships are awarded to other high performing participants who meet a corporate sponsor's eligibility criteria.

The determination is based upon a student’s performance on the PSAT their Junior year of high school. Approximately 1.5 million qualifying students take the test in the U.S. Of those 1.5 million, only about 30,000 qualify as National Merit Commended Scholars.  Prosper ISD is pleased to announce the following National Merit Commended Scholars from PHS and RHHS. 

Michael Beals - PHS

Ethan Binoy - PHS

Evan Bish - PHS

Thatcher Bishop - PHS

Sowmith Bonda - PHS

Annabelle Busbee - PHS

Lalith Chaitanya Vennapusa - PHS

Sarayu Chitturi - PHS

Harold Clifford - PHS

Shrideep Gaddad - PHS

Elizabeth Grayson - PHS

Siva Indukuri - PHS

Alistair Kwok - PHS

Daniel Lee - PHS

Jason Ly - PHS

Cheyne Miller - PHS

Daxon Miller - PHS

Olivia Nabukeera - PHS

Rohit Rakshan Palanikumar - PHS

Joseph Park - PHS

Nathaniel Patterson - PHS

Kalyani Rao - PHS

Cameron Sanchez - PHS

Kamryn Stiffler - PHS

Natalia Cano - RHHS

Alyssa Dickens - RHHS

Cody Hansen - RHHS

Leah Kanzler - RHHS

Shaivi Manohar - RHHS

Rylan Moseley - RHHS

Ifeabia Okororie - RHHS

Niranjan Swaminathan - RHHS

Isha Thirupathy - RHHS

Roshanaditya Vinothkumar - RHHS

Sidhant Vulisetti - RHHS

Jared White - RHHS

 

Only 16,500 students in the nation qualify as National Merit Semi-Finalists. From this list, the National Merit Finalists are named who become eligible for the approximate 8,200 National Merit Scholarships. Prosper ISD is proud to announce that five PHS and RHHS students have been named National Merit Semi-finalists. They are:

Quinn Hungerford - PHS

Matthew Oh -PHS

Naysa Modi - RHHS

Andrew Warren - RHHS

Catalina Zuo - RHHS