Congratulations to the Bellevue School District seniors who were recognized as semifinalists for National Merit Scholarships! These students were among those receiving the highest scores on the 2018 PSAT taken by 1.5 million juniors this past year. About 90 percent of those students will be named finalists in February. Out of all the schools in Washington, Interlake High School had the second highest amount of students on the semifinalist list! Congratulations to all of our BSD students who have received this honor:

Bellevue High School

Gannon Forsberg, Katherine Forsberg, Victoria Hsieh, Larry Jing, Jessica Lee, Abigail Li, Boyin Liu, Janelle Rudolph, Oscar Wan, Ethan Wong, Ara Zaratsyan

Interlake High School

Abhinav Bandari, Sawyer Baugh, Kelly Chen, Aryan Damani, Sanjit Dandapanthula, Archika Dogra, Elaine Guo, Ronit Jain, Suhyun Kim, George Lan, Michael Li, Jessie Liu, Bryan Lu, Benjamin Mousseau, Iris Peng, Jason Qian, Neil Rajurs, Savitha Srinivasan, Olivia Sun, Andrew Wang, Raymond Wang, Hannah Wilcox, Aimee Wu, Derek Zhang, Miranda Zhang, Zachary Zhang, Effie Zheng

International School

Abhay Deshpande, Felicity Huang, Jamie Paik, Cindy Wang

Newport High School

Shrey Aeron, Anna Bencke, Evelyn Chen, Candace Do, Chaewon Han, Nancy Huang, Rosemary Huang, Axel Li, Iris Li, Alexander Richardson, Isha Sangani, Maya Srikanth, Caroline Wu, Sophie Wu, Luke Xie, Brandon Xu, Nathan Yan, Ryan Zhao, Cindy Zou, Joy Zou

Sammamish High School

Ashley Ka

The Bellevue School District acknowledges that we learn, work, live and gather on the Indigenous Land of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribes. We thank these caretakers of this land, who have lived and continue to live here, since time immemorial.