The National Merit Scholarship Program recognized 27 Westlake High School students for achieving the National Merit Semifinalist designation. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
National Merit Semifinalists from Westlake High School for 2024-25 are:
Morgan Brew
Lucille Brown
Shu Ying Chong
Cynthia Cui
Yuan Dong
Andrew Han
Declan Howell
Nathan Huang
Aditya Jas
Shrey Jha
Aahan Kar
Devan Kuppusamy
Keith LoboPrabhu
Zoe Lynch
Aliana Marakovic
Pramila Premkishore
Miller Roberts
Riya Sahu
James Seidel
Vidhur Seshadri
Clara Smyth
Aman Sulaiman
Akash Vasan
Millen Wadhwa
Noah Wong
Natalie Yung
Joseph Zhang
Semifinalists now advance to the finalist level of competition, where students must have an outstanding high school academic record, be endorsed and recommended by the school principal, and submit SAT scores that confirm his/her earlier qualifying test performance. Finalists will be announced in February 2025.