Yesterday, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced that 77 Harker seniors – nearly 40% of the entire class – have been named semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, breaking last year’s record of 71. Semifinalists are determined by their performance on the students’ performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test the previous year.

Semifinalists from the Class of 2026 are:

Roshan Amurthur, Farhan Ansari, Krish Arora, Suhana Bhandare, Emily Bryan, Luis Caballero, Thomas Campisi, Janam Chahal, Aman Chandra, Nandini Chandrashekhar, Keira Chang, Spencer Chang, Oliver Chen, Stanley Chen, Timmy Chen, Eva Cheng, Timothy Deng, Cyrus Ghane, Krish Goenka, Helen Gu, Aarit Gupta, Amishi Gupta, Disha Gupta, Suhani Gupta, Ananya Gurushankar, Jessica Hu, Joy Hu, Sahil Jain, Ethan Leelanivas, Ethan Lei, David Li, Emma Li, Hannah Lin, James Lin, Wendy Liu, Christy Ma, Yuqin Ma, Mendy Mao, Daniel Miao, Krish Nachnani, Tara Nemati, Sophia Ou, Ananya Pradhan, Rishi Radhakrishna, Ritik Raman, Aditya Ramanathan, Caden Ruan, Arushi Sahasi, Alan Shen, Aditya Shivakumar, Vinayak Sinha, Tanvi Sivakumar, Danielle Steinbach, Aya Sugaya, Kairui Sun, Siddharth Sundar, Jonathan Szeto, Veeraz Thakkar, Brandon Tully, Arturo Vilalta, Anna Wang, Charlie Wang, Iris Wang, Kallie Wang, S Wang, Chengxi Wu, Luke Wu, Celina Xu, Alicia Yan, Stella Yang, Albert Yao, Kimberly Yashar, Linda Zeng, Eddie Zhang, Jiaheng Zhang, Elaine Zou and Wenjie Zou.