This year, the class of 2018 has 40 National Merit semifinalists, the largest number in school history, according to assistant principal Brian Safine.

National Merit is a corporation that identifies top scholars based on their PSAT scores from junior year. To be a semifinalist, a student must score in the top 1.5 percent of all test-takers.

All of the following seniors are semifinalists and thus eligible for a scholarship: Ananya Chakravarthy, Caitlyn Chen, Carolyn Chen, Stacey Chen, Amith Galivanche, Eleanor Goh, Colina Guan, Chengzi Guo, Samuel Guo, Kevin Handoko, Vera Hsu, Tiffany Huang, Sohini Kar, Ian Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Ryan Kim, Anna Kranz, Rahul Kumar, Shivaum Kumar, Angela Lee, Michelle Low, Avni Madhani, Elora Pradhan, William Sabato, Joshua Si, Miranda Song, Ashley Su, Mervi Tan, Sadhana Vadrevu, Varun Viswanath, Austin Wang, Kyle Wang, Bryan Wong, Tyler Wu, Michael Xue, Clifford Yin, Atlas Yuen, Lillian Zeng, Catherine Zhang and Andrew Zheng.