Westlake High School 2025-26 National Merit Semifinalists
The National Merit Scholarship Program recognized 95 Westlake High School students – 33 semifinalists and 62 commended) for achieving the National Merit Scholars designation. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
Westlake High School National Merit Semifinalists for 2025-26 are:
| Rohan Augustin Advaith Binu Beckham Blunt Wyatt Caudle Soha Dalal Sreekar Garimella Anay Gandhar Gokhale Adam Gravelle Shaunak Hoskote Ved Hoskote Carter Johnson Hudson Kerr Colin Kish Timothy Kozlowski Leo Laessig Vanessa Law Hutchinson Martinez-Self |
Kristin Min Elliot Nutt Daniel Orshansky Cierra Palosh Julia Poage Sandeep Roy Dharma Sabapathy Vedant Sacheendran Grace Shannon Emma Ton Angie Wang Ethan Wang Edward Yan Aarush Yarlagadda Casey Yi Evan Yip |
Semifinalists now advance to the finalist level of competition, where students must have an outstanding high school academic record, be endorsed and recommended by the school principal and submit SAT scores that confirm his/her earlier qualifying test performance. Finalists will be announced in February 2026.
Commended Scholars placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students taking the PSAT in 2025.
Westlake High School Commended Students for 2025-26 are:
| Varun Achanta Nikhil Adapala Aubrey Bolton Paxton Braden Lila Brannan Margaux Brutin Michelle Chen Eliza Cook Logan Cui Evelyn Curry Nina Flanders Andrew Gao Raul Garcia James Garcia-Jolly Akash Gowda Audrey Han Sarika E Hegde Gideon Hock Adam Hollander Carson Holmes Leon Jiao Aditi Karvekar Alexa Kerr Camryn Kerr Emil Khan Claire Kim Srinika Kondagunturi Caroline Leath Aditi Loke Aleksi Louhivuori Kelly Ma |
Bjorn Martinsson Sofia Melchert Alison Miller Chaudhry Zaviyar Mujeeb Laura Narvaez Shepherd Neville Rohan Pavuluri Gabriel Placke Pranit Prasanna Rushil Rana Claire Rozek Devin Schueppert Sara Sehgal Kiran Seth Arnav Shandilya Melody Shue Zane Sinno Sabrina Sprangle Jakeman Strelitz Jasmine Sun Channing Sweeney Sanaya Telang Alexander Terrazas Lauren Tsao Ara Walsky Natalie Wang Miranda Xu Eshaan Yalamanchili Iris Yu Bryan Zhang Mia Zheng |