Conroe ISD Celebrates 51 National Merit Semifinalists

CONROE, TX -- The Conroe ISD Board of Trustees recognized the outstanding achievement of the District’s 51 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.

The National Merit Scholarship Finalists will be named in February, while the four levels of Winners will be announced from April to July.

Conroe ISD Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are:

Henry Aceves
Sophia Ali
Braxton Allen
Breyton Badger
Inu Baek
Jireh Bermoy
Alexander Bills
Clayton Boyter
Danill Burnashev
Gwendolyn Butler
Nicholas Cheney
Andrew Cole
Nancy Dong
Jeffery Dou
David Gong
James Greaves
Corwin Harper
Aubrey Harris
Owen Harris
Benjamin Heffernan
Wyatt Hicks
Justin Huang
Sarah Kath
Jaxon Luddeke
Hannah Luke
Andres Lynch
Praseedha Maddipatla
David Martin
John McKenna
Colton Moore
Royce Morlyasu
Audrey Nguyen
Brian Nwugbana
Jaron Oldenburg
Victoria Ou
Matthew Pan
Aarushi Pandey
Maanav Patel
Rohit Pillutla
Rileigh Rinaudo
Daniel Robbins
Mina Santhanakrishnan
Aarush Shenoy
Yuchen Tian
Nicholas Tyner
Allison Wang
Evan White
Carson Winter
Lily Woolf
Isabel Ye
Matthew Yu

Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. 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.