<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1U2AgX_1FRlfA1000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1U2AgX_1FRlfA1000" width="1200" height="800" ><p>The Bellevue School District is proud to announce our 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists! Congratulations, BSD scholars; we look forward to seeing you move on to the next round of the competition! </p><p>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 1.2 million entrants each year, and by meeting published program entry and participation requirements.</p><h2>2027 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists </h2><p>This year’s Semifinalists include 65 students from Bellevue, Interlake, International, and Newport high schools. </p><p>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.</p><p>In September 2026, more than 16,000 Semifinalists were named, and these academically talented high school seniors will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 6,700 scholarships, worth nearly $24 million. National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists from the Bellevue School District include: </p><h2>Bellevue High School </h2><ul><li>Dzeravianka, Arseni </li><li>Lin, Tess </li><li>Liu, William </li><li>Saini, Dhruv </li><li>Saini, Tara </li><li>Wu, Zifang </li><li>Zhao, Harry </li></ul><h2>Interlake High School </h2><ul><li>Aquino, Aiden </li><li>Bahl, Shrey </li><li>Black, Clark </li><li>David, Sana </li><li>Dhiman, Madhav </li><li>Doshi, Sanya </li><li>Duan, Jasper </li><li>Ghose, Aahan </li><li>Hao, Richard </li><li>Hirai, Soma </li><li>Lee, Ethan </li><li>Lee, Olivia </li><li>Lei, Allison </li><li>Lei, Sammy </li><li>Li, Oscar </li><li>Liang, Avery </li><li>Mantrala, Nikhil </li><li>Mukherjee, Jai </li><li>Pattipaka, Abhinav </li><li>Perera, Ishan </li><li>Rajesh, Sahana </li><li>Rao, Ilina </li><li>Rui, Ian </li><li>Shen, Yongen </li><li>Shi, Benjamin </li><li>Singh, Ritwik </li><li>Stevens, Imogen </li><li>Stokan, Gavin </li><li>Susa, Avik </li><li>Xu, Ruochen </li><li>Yao, Jason </li><li>Ye, Julia </li><li>Yoon, William </li><li>Yu, Alexander </li><li>Zhang, Christine </li><li>Zhang, Zhen </li><li>Zhao, Zihan </li><li>Zhou, Rick </li></ul><h2>International School</h2><ul><li>Zeng, Grace </li><li>Zhang, Yazhuo </li></ul><h2>Newport High School</h2><ul><li>Chang, Ellen </li><li>Imasaki, Michelle </li><li>Kim, Michelle </li><li>Li, Grace </li><li>Liu, Chloe </li><li>Liu, Jianna </li><li>Lo, Ava </li><li>Qi, Sze Yuen </li><li>Song, Justin </li><li>Storment, Isaac </li><li>Tam, Bethany </li><li>Tang, Ryan </li><li>Wang, Daniel </li><li>Wang, Grace </li><li>Yeun, Gabin </li><li>Zhang, Daniel </li></ul><p>To become a Finalist, the Semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the Semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. </p><p>National Merit Scholarship winners of 2027 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 395,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title. </p><p>Some names were omitted based on media permission status. If you or your student received this recognition and would like to be added to this list, please contact communityrelations@bsd405.org. </p></div></body>

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The Bellevue School District is proud to announce our 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists! Congratulations, BSD scholars; we look forward to seeing you 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...

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The Bellevue School District is proud to announce our 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists! Congratulations, BSD scholars; we look forward

2027 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists

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