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Fifty-one FBISD 2011 National Merit Semifinalists Named FORT BEND ISD – The Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of 51 FBISD students who have been named semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. To put that number in perspective, Fort Bend ISD has one of the highest percentages of National Merit Semifinalists among the larger school districts in Texas.
The 51 FBISD semifinalists are among more than 1.5 million high school juniors in more than 22,000 United States high schools who entered the 2011 Merit Program by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists varies each year according to the allocation for the state as designated by the National Merit Corporation.
Fort Bend ISD's 2011 National Merit semifinalists by campus are:
- Austin High School – Pallavi Bakshi, Rachel Hatton, Brian Lisco, Swaroop Rao, and Nakul Shah;
- Clements High School – Sara Ahmed, Smarath Asthana, Anik Bhattacharya, Warren Chan, Kevin Chen, Darren Chiu, Matthew Dierker, Nikhil Dixit, Richard Fang, Kevin Feng, Dev Gandhi, Xuan Gao, Vivian Ho, Jia-Ching Hsu, Phillip Hu, Adelia Humme, Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, Nathan Kwan, Kevin Lin, Sirui Lu, Kritaarth Mahankali, Priyanka Mehta, Minesh Patel, Victoria Pham, Karthik Sethuraman, Millie Shi, Connie Wang, Jia Xin Wang, Katherine Yun, Rose Zhang and Yuxi Zhou;
- Dulles High School – Julia Chang, Corey Fisher and Aaras Shah;
- Elkins High School – Eileen Gong, Richard Haines, Connie Wang and Grant Yuan;
- Hightower High School – Steven Dao and Neel Patel;
- Kempner High School – Shuoyang Zhu, and;
- Travis High School – Hersh Agrawal, Julie Gerzina, Nikita Kansra, Gaurav Nayak and Shrinidhi Rao.
http://www.fortbendisdnews.com/go/doc/1934/902271/