By Khalida Sarwari
Thirty-six Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District students were named finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Program.
The students from Los Gatos High School are Andrea Kibel, Valmik Prabhu, Alexandra Wong and David Zhang. The Saratoga High students are Allison Chang, Andrew Chang, Edgar Chen, Jeffrey Chen, Nolan Chen, Tommy Chiou, Nicholas Chow, Cristina Curcelli, Austin Du, Robert Eng, Sarah Finley, Jeremy Goldman, Alvin Huang, Nina Jayashankar, Priyanka Krishnamurthi, Evan Lee, Lauren Lin, Sherry Lin, Justin Liu, Samuel Liu, Akshay Madhani, Sanjit Nalwa, Alexander Renda, Maya Lakshmi Srinivasan, Derek Sun, Maggie Sun, Karen Sung, Raj Thakker, Nelson Wang, Julianne Wey, Yuen Yang and Solon Zhu.
The program, created in 1955, awards 1 percent of the nearly 1.5 million students who participate in this program by taking the Preliminary SAT, or PSAT. The program will mail scholarship offers to the finalists starting in March.
Students from local district are National Merit Scholar finalists
