Fourteen Dallas ISD students have been named among the 16,000 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, with a chance to become one of the 7,500 finalists who will take home scholarships worth a combined $31 million.
More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to reach the finals, with about half of the finalists earning a National Merit Scholarship.
The Dallas ISD National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists are:
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Sophia Jalilvand
Katherine Pinkerton
School for the Talented and Gifted
Ana Paulina Gallart
Sophia Hooper
Caitlin Lambert
Kezia Lopez
Nathaniel Martin
Emily Morris
Aidan Ravnik
Avi Verma
Justin Wise
School of Science and Engineering
Shelly Goel
Charlo Leakey
Timothy Ogunfunmi
