The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition among high school students for recognition and college undergraduate scholarships that began in 1955. The program is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®), a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance. United States high school students enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as an initial screen of over 1.3 million entrants each year.  

This year Oakton High School had 12 National Merit Semi-Finalists and 67 National Merit Commended Students!  

Semi-Finalists

More than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 2024 National Merit® Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered next spring. About 95 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

Congratulations to the following Oakton High School National Merit Semi-finalists: 

• Christopher Campbell
• Isaiah Garrett
• Benjamin Habyarimana
• Bumkyu Kang
• Adrian Li
• Jackson Mika
• Seth Parcell
• Lisa Sun
• Rivka Vizcardo-Lichter
• Joshua Wang
• Luke Whitlock
• Ken Zhou 

Commended Students 

More than two-thirds (about 34,000) of the high scorers are designated as Commended Students. In recognition of their outstanding ability and potential for academic success in college, NMSC honors these students by sending Letters of Commendation to them through their high schools. Although Commended Students will not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some may be candidates for Special Scholarships offered by corporate sponsors (see sponsor list).

Congratulations to the following Oakton High School National Merit Commended Students: 

• Devum Agarwal
• Horatio Ai
• Kunal Anuje
• Elizabeth Brown
• Winston Brown
• William Bucha
• Aditi Burra
• Sriram Chalamacharla
• Nived Chandramohan
• Euan Chase
• Rohan Cherukuri
• Abigail Chi
• Caroline Choi
• Gabriella Choi
• Alexander Emmerich
• Owen Flickinger
• Advait Govindani
• Arjun Gowder
• Alexander Gu 
• Ozan Gunduz
• Amelia Haid
• Brandon Ham
• Byron Hettler 
• Kaitlyn Hoang
• Ryan Hong 
• Brandon Hsieh
• Patrick Jenkins
• Viraj Kamath
• Pranati Kashyap
• Parisa Khan
• Shehroze Kiani
• Hyoeun Kim
• Eva Klinker
• Taryn Knepper
• Calvin Kwon 
• Elizabeth Li
• Charlotte Lim
• Arjun Malghan
• Charlie McArter
• Finn McCormack
• Augniv Mitra 
• Sampriti Muthuswamy
• Justin Ning
• Samantha Oh
• Ekin Ozdogan
• Anurodh Poudel
• Alexis Qin
• Minha Quach
• Ashwini Ramchandran
• Ny Antsa Razafinjatovo
• Dale Rumford
• Valentina Saer
• Musa Shah
• Matthew Shelton
• Tyler Shin
• Joshua Song
• Ayan Sudhir
• Shreeya Suresh
• Joy Szeto
• Anvitha Vemuru
• Teodor Vretsona
• Ashley Wang
• Christopher Wang
• Isabel Wang 
• Raymond Xu
• Avery Yang
• Seungwoo Yoon