Six Northshore Seniors Named National Merit Finalists
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named six Northshore School District seniors as National Merit Finalists. Finalists represent less than one-half of 1 percent of the 1.5 million students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test nation wide. Students are:
Inglemoor High School
Rahul Bachal, son of Pratibha Bachal
Henry Sokol, son of Deborah Parkins-Sokol and James Sokol
Kathleen Zhou, daughter of Feng and Yan Zhou
Cynthia Zhu, daughter of Lin Ming and Baohua Zhuu
Woodinville High School
Christian Matthews, son of Sharon and Joseph Matthews, III
Karthik Romesh, son of Nalini and Dr. Anapathur Ramesh
Finalists will be considered for more than 8,300 National Merit Scholarship Awards to be awarded this spring and often receive other offers because of their standing as National Merit Finalists.