Congratulations to our National Merit Scholar honorees
Congratulations to the following Overlake students recently recognized by the National Merit Scholarship program. Overlake Class of 2026 has a total of 44 National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Scholars! This is the largest amount of Overlake students ever honored.
There were over 1.3 million students at 21,000 high schools across the country that took the PSAT to qualify for consideration.
To become a National Merit Finalist, a Semifinalist must complete a lengthy application including a school recommendation and submit an SAT or ACT Score. All National Merit Finalists will be announced in February.
The nationwide pool of National Merit Semifinalists represents less than 1% of all high school seniors in the United States.
Congratulations to Overlake’s 17 National Merit Semifinalists:
- Alex Chen
- Sizhe “Steven” Chen
- Rohan Chopra
- Simaya “Simi” Gala
- Edison Hui
- Tristan Jolly
- Yerang “Yeriel” Kim
- James Lai
- Jadyn Li
- Yuxuan “Diana” Lin
- Justin Ma
- Kate “Katie” Mystowski
- Lucia Villarreal Gonzalez
- Dianyi Yao
- Aiden Zhang
- Alice Zhang
- Avery Zhang
Congratulations to Overlake’s 27 National Merit Commended Scholars:
- Prithvi Aravind
- Rayyan Baig
- Shrishti Bakhshi
- Matthew Bee
- Muadh Chummun
- Xuechen “Sherry” Fei
- Shaina Gupta
- Yousef Haddad
- Brier Hehmeyer
- Steven Hong
- Adrien Honig
- Zach Huang
- Sae Komatsu
- Anaiya Krishnan-Dobhal
- Aiden Li
- Dhruti Pachalla
- Zainab Pirzada
- Oliver Pleskac
- Laya Ramesh
- Tarini Raveendran
- Rishi Sanyal
- Benjamin “Ben” Ta
- John “Jack” Willis
- Julinna Wu
- Gloria Xu
- Sarina Zhang
- Hanzhi “Henry” Zhu