Township High School District 211 announces that 31 students, including nineteen from Fremd High School, have been named semifinalists in this year's National Merit Scholarship Competition. Semifinalists are selected based on scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (P.S.A.T./N.M.S.Q.T.).

Congratulations to the following students:

• Praanav Aiyar - Fremd High School
• Thomas Applebaum - Fremd High School
• Thomas Border - Fremd High School
• Evan Carl - Fremd High School
• Siddarth Dayeneni - Conant High School
• Aditya Gupta - Fremd High School
• Jillian Harvey - Fremd High School
• Piyanshu Jha - Hoffman Estates High School
• Joseph Jiang - Fremd High School
• Chethan Karandikar - Fremd High School
• Anvith Kotha - Conant High School
• Grace Lee - Fremd High School
• Arnav Mandal - Fremd High School
• Levyn Mathew - Fremd High School
• Yashas Mattur - Hoffman Estates High School *
• Aedan Mayschak - Conant High School
• Isaac Menning - Palatine High School
• Jacob Myers - Fremd High School
• Liam Nance - Fremd High School
• Henry Oh - Fremd High School
• Devanshu Pandya - Hoffman Estates High School 
• Jason Park - Conant High School
• Adarsh Prathap - Fremd High School
• Adithya Raman - Hoffman Estates High School
• Pranaav Senthilkumar - Fremd High School
• Avi Shah - Conant High School
• Aidan Smith - Palatine High School
• Stephanie Tian - Fremd High School
• Katherin Wei - Fremd High School
• Jack Xu - Fremd High School

* At its October meeting, the District 211 Board of Education also recognized Hoffman Estates High School student Yashas Krishna Mattur for scoring a 36, the highest possible composite score on the American College Test (ACT).