Semifinalists: 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program

MAYBECK H. S. CERRITOS Semifinalists: 2018 National 720 Pavlov, Charlotte CERRITOS H. S. 999 Chang, Fu-Tung Merit Scholarship Program ST. MARY'S COLLEGE H. S. 456 Chea, Peter 185 Martin, Julia E. 947 Suh, Angelina

BEVERLY HILLS WHITNEY H. S. BEVERLY HILLS H. S. 450 Hyun, Michelle M. 171 Artal, Jonathan M. 836 Raghavan, Sharan CALIFORNIA 270 Ying, Xiaoke 999 Harward, Brian D. 185 Thenappan, Bala S. 463 Yuan, Warren 454 Harward, Jason M. 740 Zeng, Edward W. 600 Kim, Jae Yi 170 Zhao, Louis CHATSWORTH AGOURA HILLS CHATSWORTH H. S. AGOURA H. S. BREA 162 Lee, Taylor 742 Derensteyn, Max ARROYO GRANDE BREA OLINDA H. S. ARROYO GRANDE H. S. 451 Harris, Maya F. 000 Mishra, Gaurav SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL 999 Egg, Erika E. 457 Wellen, Randall L. 450 Kabir, Zahin S. 999 Reicher, Benjamin M. 740 Palmer-Toy, Bryce W. 160 Lane, Chloe S. 457 Prieger, Alexander BRENTWOOD ATHERTON HERITAGE H. S. CHICO MENLO - ATHERTON H. S. 520 Nam, Jasmine H. PLEASANT VALLEY H. S. ALAMEDA 200 Bridgnell, Olivia A. ALAMEDA H. S. 791 Cole, Erin E. 451 Hartigan, Calder J. 400 Dewey, Emma Q. LIBERTY H. S. 202 Huang, Jiahao 451 Furman, Zachary D. 400 Frits, Maya J. CHINO HILLS 600 Nguyen, Andrew D. 870 Gage, Kelsey M. RUBEN S. AYALA H. S. 300 Nguyen, Anh P. 162 Galhotra, Sajel R. BURBANK 600 Kim, Soohong 175 Iyer, Christopher S. BURBANK H. S. 456 Rodriguez, Joshua ENCINAL H. S. 302 Kao, Patrick D. 300 Czeranko, Adam James 170 Senthilkumar, Vigneshwar 900 Arneson, Anneli H. 999 Liu, Jerry W. 300 Nhan, Aaron 628 Shah, Reeya 950 Manin, Nikita D. 870 Yang, Melissa ALBANY 160 McCutcheon, Kelley R. 300 Yee, John S. CHINO HILLS H. S. ALBANY H. S. 450 Oesterling, Alexander X. 605 Hasib, Maham 999 Sehgal, Maanek S. 999 Chen, Nuo JOHN BURROUGHS H. S. 454 Jeeda, Rashi 450 Sullivan, James M. 999 Lee, Philip C. 451 Tumkur Mahesh, Prajwal 999 Tan, Andrew J. 999 Rees-Hill, Joseph A. CHULA VISTA 164 Trabosh, Narisa C. 302 Tegland, Liam CALABASAS EASTLAKE H. S. 999 Yong, Simon CALABASAS H. S. 170 Colarusso, Anthony D. MENLO SCHOOL 000 Gupta, Vidish 163 Perez, Alejandro D. ALHAMBRA 830 Abadi, Sebastien N. 000 Moyal, Eden ALHAMBRA H. S. 999 Dollinger, Cole 000 Nguyen, Nhat OTAY RANCH H. S. 999 Dumanian, Grant 161 Cheng, Celine 303 White, Nathan L. 450 Hoh, Brian H. 999 Howard, Rachel D. 452 Tan, Sophia 907 Jain, Sabrina S. VIEWPOINT SCHOOL 303 Kennedy, Connor CLAREMONT MARK KEPPEL H. S. 742 Fang, Yiming 000 Leschly, Bo CLAREMONT H. S. 160 Chang, Kenny 906 Tam, Tiffany L. 520 Jung, Shane S. 940 Ji, Vivian CAMARILLO 999 Tung, Hwai-Liang 450 Junisbai, Sanjar N. 303 Ng, Nicholas ADOLFO CAMARILLO H. S. 000 Weingart, John R. 000 Moore, Miriam L. 771 Ogawa-Monroe, Kailey K. 450 Yuan, Jessica 303 Wong, Anna J. 999 Moore, Simon L. 450 Pitugnarongphor, Kaitlyn 160 Park, Abraham S. 999 Yang, Thomas CAMPBELL 999 Young, Grace N. 467 Tran, Eric WESTMONT H. S. ALISO VIEJO 628 Zheng, Andrew 907 Welty, Eliza T. ALISO NIGUEL H. S. 160 Zhang, Kelly 450 Wu, Elizabeth 160 Bhaskar, Anushka SACRED HEART 160 Deming, Rachel A. PREPARATORY SCHOOL CARLSBAD VIVIAN WEBB SCHOOL 830 Hughes, Michael C. CARLSBAD H. S. 303 Connors, Emma M. 000 Jiang, Anne 950 Leish, Eliana G. 904 Li, Anthony 999 Herden, Luca 000 Newman, Georgia A. 712 Ryoo, Jemin 999 Ho, Madeline C. LA COSTA CANYON H. S. 500 Thompson, Robert W. WEBB SCHOOL OF CALIFORNIA 999 Parr, Kevin ANAHEIM 000 Wei, Oren CANYON H. S. BAKERSFIELD PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL 710 Krishan, Shefali J. INDEPENDENCE H. S. 303 Woodson, Connor M. 000 Bjornstad, Patrick T. CLOVIS 450 Haviland, Andrew J. 600 Yook, Kunseo 000 Causey, Benjamin P. CLOVIS H. S. 450 Yuan, Zachary Z. 000 Chen, Eric N. 302 Adisasmito-Smith, Narayana STOCKDALE H. S. 000 Ning, Derek 430 Siechert, Jennifer L. CORNELIA CONNELLY SCHOOL 457 Alphonso, Warren B. 000 Schell, Tiffany 160 162 Borbridge, Amy E. Gogulapati, Anusha A. 000 Yu, Connie B. HOMESCHOOL 461 Kuchakulla, Niteesh 161 Nye, Grace P. FAIRMONT PREPARATORY SAGE CREEK H. S. ACADEMY BELLFLOWER 999 Drury, Brendan M. COLFAX 720 Gibbs, Ellie N. ST. JOHN BOSCO H. S. 461 Lewis, Charles R. COLFAX H. S. 451 McDermott, Mark 301 Li, Amy 204 Vereyken, William M. KATELLA H. S. 160 Dollins, Forrest BELMONT CARMEL CONCORD CARLMONT H. S. CARMEL H. S. CLAYTON VALLEY CHARTER H. S. SERVITE H. S. 185 Boone, Kiran 160 Gray, Ihlara 455 Pearson, Samuel J. 907 Aimone, Patrick O. 999 Chong, David 451 Hendricks, Quincy 451 Schoffstall, Logan C. 906 Felton, Casey 450 Zacek, Filip M. ARCADIA 200 Lu, Aaron 943 Masini, Amanda CORONA ARCADIA H. S. CARPINTERIA CENTENNIAL H. S. 770 Pham, Hanalei CATE SCHOOL 450 Chen, Ethan 166 Beckwith, Sabrina W. 303 Chen, Justin B. 200 VanArsdel, Zane 000 MacFarlane, Ian P. 303 Vendrow, Edward B. 204 Chen, Liang-Wei SANTIAGO H. S. 742 Chen, Sean 742 Zhang, Sammy CARSON 160 Hamilton, Madison H. 904 Ching, Conner J. CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF 162 Mitra, Shameek 185 Fang, Andrea C. BENICIA MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 999 Rhodes, Tyler M. 450 Figueira, Nicholas A. BENICIA H. S. 999 Pela, Tavio A. 628 Gu, Xinyang 302 Beyer, Madeline C. 204 Ho, Daniel A. 160 LeGro, Ethan CASTRO VALLEY CORONADO 710 Lee, Frank K. CASTRO VALLEY H. S. CORONADO H. S. 907 Li, Derek BERKELEY 000 Bhat, Anjali C. 000 Leonard, Stephen M. 200 Shin, James J. BERKELEY H. S. 970 Cady, Julia M. 000 Zaller, Isabel R. 900 Togelang, Arianna 843 Adams, Jasper 870 Chiu, Vivian H. 185 Wang, Regina L. 999 Klop-Packel, Nory G. 999 Fung, Lauren A. COVINA 302 Yao, Elyse 940 Knowles, Leda A. 628 Li, Kaitlyn J. CHARTER OAK H. S. 200 Yeh, Benjamin P. 450 McDonald, Zoe 999 Revina, Sofia 160 Wang, Stephanie C.

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628 Shen, Jason X. 600 Koshatwar, Navyada HENRY J. KAISER H. S. California (continued) 500 Sud, Bhavna 907 Phatak, Ira 450 Heyer, Amandeep 170 Suh, Samuel 450 Shah, Vade 161 Syskine, Daria V. 303 Singh, Jaiveer FOUNTAIN VALLEY CULVER CITY 600 Tammineni, Himaja 303 Tang, Eric FOUNTAIN VALLEY H. S. CULVER CITY H. S. 771 Tang, Eric A. 843 Wang, Cory 456 Keslerwest, Lee R. 999 Winslow, Eden J. 303 Upadhyay, Rishi 450 Liu, Jane J. 303 Wan, Michael HOMESCHOOL 161 Nguyen, Kendrick T. CUPERTINO 300 Wang, Jasmine E. 522 Gwozdz, Daphne R. CUPERTINO H. S. 209 Wu, Joyce FREMONT 999 Yang, Forest 000 Ayalur, Abhinav V. EASTVALE AMERICAN H. S. 161 Yang, Gina Y. 000 Balakrishnan, Anoop ELEANOR ROOSEVELT H. S. 160 Ahmed, Ifrah 457 Yang, Michael 000 Elumalai, Nila N. 740 He, Lucas J. 628 Arunkumar, Radhakrishnan 999 Yang, Steve 000 Gee, Caroline 300 Takahari, Lily 500 Chen, Aaron W. 628 Zhang, Claire 000 Gopu, Ria S. 894 Chen, Yupei 999 Zheng, Cindy R. 000 Gurtu, Nandit EL CAJON 628 Chigullapally, Nikita 999 Zhou, Grace 000 Li, Jasmine VALHALLA H. S. 742 Chiplunkar, Shardul A. 999 Zou, Spencer Y. 000 Liang, Andrew S. 628 Albers, Alexandra N. 742 Huang, Eric 000 Liang, Benjamin S. 164 Huang, Joshua P. 000 Liao, Yi Jou CYPRESS EL CERRITO 600 Jamil, Zarraf 000 Nadkarni, Pooja CYPRESS H. S. EL CERRITO H. S. 600 Lam, Christina 000 Narveuar, Anushka S. 160 Yik, Jason L. 999 Walker, Julia C. 303 Liu, Elise Y. 000 Otsu, Seiji 999 Morimoto, Isabella P. 000 Ranade, Prajakta OXFORD ACADEMY EL DORADO HILLS 833 Nagarajan, Pranav 000 Sanghavi, Saagar J. 204 Chao, Jake R. OAK RIDGE H. S. 459 Nakka, Nikhil V. 000 Santurkar, Ishani 999 Chordia, Siddhi S. 833 Asperheim, Margaret 999 Parameswaran, Pranav 000 Sridhar, Sneha 600 Fatalla, Jacob Adriel G. 630 Bergstrom, Johanna J. 303 Prakash, Rohan 000 Sripathy, Arjun 214 Hyun, Aeji 162 Bergstrom, Lorena 166 Sayyid, Sana A. 000 Sun, Jeffrey 843 Mitra, Sambodh 999 Gopalan, Naveen 773 Shah, Aneri P. 000 Vichare, Sohan 600 Moon, Joshua S. 300 Huang, Jacob J. 501 Sharma, Charul 204 Wang, Selena 999 Veys, Yasmin S. 600 McWhorter, Neil S. 836 Sharma, Vibh A. 000 Yang, Evelyn T. 628 Xie, Justin 303 Singh, Paramjot 000 Zeng, Amy Z. DALY CITY 450 Wang, Vanessa 000 Zhang, Cindy X. SUMMIT SHASTA EL MONTE 000 Yu, Jessica 000 Zhang, Xinyi 160 Lam, Brian ARROYO H. S. 946 Zachariah, Isaiah A. 303 Nguyen, Michael W. 170 Zhao, Angela HOMESCHOOL DANA POINT 450 Zhou, Alexander Y. 000 Chi, Ethan DANA HILLS H. S. EL SEGUNDO 300 Zia, Taroob 836 Ivory, Lauren N. VISTAMAR SCHOOL 162 Jafar, Yousif HOMESTEAD H. S. 303 Ito-Fisher, Eamon HOMESCHOOL 204 Shobar, Grant S. 303 Chen, Michael Z. 999 Stenson, Aidan C. 000 Shah, Shalin 999 Gray, Alistair J. 450 Hasser, Rebecca E. DANVILLE IRVINGTON H. S. MONTE VISTA H. S. ELK GROVE 303 Haymore, Rebecca S. COSUMNES OAKS H. S. 200 Agarwal, Sourish 904 Bronshteyn, Jacob 960 Kim, Sarah 999 Cruz, Antone K. 999 Akkiraju, Amala 843 Chun, Nicholas 303 Lee, Kaitlyn 904 Smith, Seth T. 160 Bali, Manya 450 Li, Vincent 451 Coleman, Austin 501 Bansal, Siddharth 120 Liu, Erica 771 Couture, Natalie S. 161 Bhat, Rishabh N. 520 Hou, Elizabeth FRANKLIN H. S. 900 Ning, Orion S. 200 454 Cheng, Claire 904 Huang, Timothy Y. Hoang, Brandy T. 454 Shah, Sarthak V. 451 450 Cheng, Jeffrey 162 Ren, Diana S. Lewis, Nathaniel R. 461 Srinivasan, Rithika 303 Parmar, Jupinder S. 999 Cheng, Richard H. 000 Su, Evan H. 830 Sharpe, Katherine E. 164 Cherukuri, Abhinav C. 000 Tarn, Natalie 900 Su, Tercel 628 Darukhanawalla, Malcolm 170 Vuong, Ivan ENCINITAS 302 Wang, Kevin J. THE GRAUER SCHOOL 999 Guo, Rachel 722 Zheng, Ruoyang 303 999 Wang, Zhifei 999 Matthews, Katherine N. Hajela, Rohan 999 Wang, Zhixue 999 Zhou, Eric 450 Handa, Satyak 303 Wu, Ryan SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY 619 Hsiao, Winnie Y. 000 SAN RAMON VALLEY H. S. 451 Huang, Christina J. Yu, Christine 455 Bland, Jacob 000 302 Steele, Jasmine 160 Huang, Qing Zhou, Hao 303 Chockalingam, Neesha 000 843 Jang, Bryan W. Zhu, Rebecca 204 McQuarrie, Michael DAVIS 204 Jayaraman, Rachana 740 Neyer, Klaus DAVIS H. S. 303 Kasar, Rohith MONTA VISTA H. S. 630 Paxton, Natalie 600 Chao, Daniel 209 Khurana, Rishabh 160 Banerjee, Rakhi 466 Veitas, Rokas 833 Duffy, Laura Rae K. 200 Lakos, Monika R. 999 Bhise, Rucha 600 Zhu, Sophia 170 Chang, Loren H. 450 Ge, Richard 870 Liu, May S. 553 Chen, Nicholas W. 999 Hasson-Snell, James A. 999 Liu, Sabrina 000 Hu, Albert L. ESCONDIDO 467 Mayilvahanan, Sarvesh 300 Chiang, Vivian CLASSICAL ACADEMY H. S. 303 Duan, Carolyn 160 Keller, Jeffrey B. 160 Melo, Lucas A. 254 Howard, Rachel L. 301 Evans, Dylan M. 450 McSorley, Euan J. 999 Pareek, Rachit 457 George, Nihal 303 Stachowicz, Kyle 185 Patel, Naman R. 870 Gopinath, Advith 454 Willgohs, Kersten M. ETIWANDA 999 Prusty, Ayushi 999 Haines, Joshua M. 907 Young, Caleb P. ETIWANDA H. S. 161 Qadeer, Hamza A. 303 Haldar, Kinjal 300 Bui, Daryl Y. 450 Rbakhshandeh, Abbas 946 Hsieh, Matthew L. DIAMOND BAR 457 Reddy, Pramith T. 300 Hsu, William DIAMOND BAR H. S. FAIR OAKS 303 Rohatgi, Vanya 303 Huang, Brian B. 628 Cao, Ruiyan BELLA VISTA H. S. 600 Sanghavi, Nikita 204 Huang, Nancy C. 454 Chang, Brian 457 King, Jordan R. 000 Saxena, Sahil 163 Jiang, Helen 302 Cheng, Alex 160 Low, Hayden K. 000 Shah, Jwalin 214 Kathuria, Aurum 836 Ho, Matthew I. 185 Shah, Ujashi J. 303 Khanna, Nikash N. 830 Jeon, Sungjoo FOLSOM 999 Shen, Stacy 303 Kollareddy, Anisha 553 Lee, Alvin FOLSOM H. S. 000 Singhal, Rijul 999 Kotesova, Hanna 870 Peng, Eric 999 Adoni, Anish 160 Wang, Eileen 161 Kwan, Michelle 999 Shao, William 456 Becerra, Adrian 000 Wang, Judy 628 Lalwani, Kriti 700 Song, Crystal 303 Cheng, Yu-Hsi 000 Wang, Nancy 303 Lee, Min Hoo 946 Xia, Amy 301 Ediga Lakhamsani, Rithwik 940 Wu, Yuntong 160 Lee, Theresa S. 700 Graening, Olivia N. 000 Xiong, Daniel 303 Lian, Sophie J. DOWNEY 999 Haase, Andrew M. 999 Yoo, William D. 164 Luo, Grace DOWNEY H. S. 457 Hamilton, Preston 000 Yu, Amy 999 Mahajan, Amita 999 Patel, Aarti 999 Zang, Zhenyi 999 Merchia, Atul R. VISTA DEL LAGO H. S. 999 Zhang, Cindy Y. 999 Qi, Grace DUBLIN 999 Ajudia, Raj K. 000 Zhao, Dezheng 999 Ramachandran, Anika A. DUBLIN H. S. 162 Jain, Amish 773 Zhu, Tyler Y. 303 Ray, Joy 303 Balajee, Smruthi 999 Rexin, Teresa M. 160 Reddy, Priya 170 Feemster, Arianna MISSION SAN JOSE H. S. 999 Ren, William Y. 450 Gavrilova, Eugenia K. FONTANA 000 Bai, Iris 301 Saha, Srijani 999 Hong, Da Hyun HOMESCHOOL 000 Baratam, Rithvik 303 Shanker, Nikhita Z. 300 Kim, Abigale K. 457 Quijano, Jaison T. 946 Bhadoria, Himanshu

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999 Joshi, Aadit S. GRANADA HILLS IRVINE H. S. California (continued) 999 Lacaze, Katherine D. GRANADA HILLS CHARTER H. S. 302 Chang, Joshua I. 000 Morkved, Olivia G. 201 Glass, Rachel H. 600 Hess, Clara M. 303 Sheth, Sohum R. 742 Kavcioglu, Alexander J. 628 Huang, Albert 836 Than, Helen 160 Ma, Michelle 303 Chang, Adam S. 000 Kwon, Tyler H. 300 Patel, Avadh S. 161 Chang, Austin B. 218 Lin, Daniel 450 Song, Kathleen A. 160 Chang, Emily FRESNO 602 Mohan, Lisha 214 Chang, Emma CLOVIS NORTH H. S. 999 Springer, Joseph A. 200 Chawla, Ishika S. 950 Haselhorst, Christopher NORTHWOOD H. S. 303 Chawla, Sanil 830 Menz, Zachary R. HACIENDA HEIGHTS 303 Chang, Robert F. 450 Chu, Albert 950 Shin, Katherine Y. HOMESCHOOL 999 Choi, Calista S. 999 Chuang, Gabriel T. 000 Kong, Ethan J. 450 Dai, Yutong 999 Dong, Mina SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL H. S. 904 Fu, Irene L. 628 Dong, Samantha C. 160 Monreal, Patrick J. LOS ALTOS H. S. 160 Gonik, Yulia M. 209 Fang, Wenhan 204 Lin, Chia Hung 204 Guo, Amy C. 999 Feng, Tiffany FULLERTON 462 Huang, Maggie 303 Fok, Emily FULLERTON UNION H. S. GLEN A. WILSON H. S. 999 Kim, Aaron 000 Gaggar, Arpita 740 Yang, Yale 250 Kuang, Victoria 461 Kim, Michelle 467 Gaggar, Ayush 000 Kung, Aidan H. 451 Kulkarni, Shubham 450 Ge, Carolyn SUNNY HILLS H. S. 456 Lee, Alvin 870 Lee, Andres S. 999 Gupta, Savvy 628 Jung, Joshua M. 904 Li, Claire 999 Hahn, Ryan P. 200 Kwon, Jessica C. HAYWARD 999 Li, Zelong 303 Hegde, Chandan 628 Pak, Irene J. MOREAU CATHOLIC H. S. 455 Moh, Jasper 303 Hou, David Y. 457 Turaga, Pranav V. 520 Pak, Sarah 000 Huang, Colby Y. TROY H. S. 300 Palepu, Vineet 303 Jiang, Grace 454 Bostic, William K. HILLSBOROUGH 773 Pandey, Kushagra 740 Jin, Sylvia W. 999 Branson, Ashley E. CRYSTAL SPRINGS 457 Park, Byeongmin 303 Kan, Andrew Z. 454 Cai, Patrick Y. UPLANDS SCHOOL 454 Parthasarathy, Nitya 160 Kannan, Anupama 467 Chan, Lydia 000 Fuchs, Eliana L. 168 Sharma, Geetanshi 160 Kinoshita, Andrew T. 999 Chap, Brian 000 Jian, Darren 459 Tang, Matthew G. 303 Kiran, Prajna 303 Chen, Andrew W. 000 Kamath, Anika A. 970 Wang, Mitchell 904 Kodnani, Devesh R. 455 Chen, Austin 000 Levy, Gabrielle L. 164 Yan, Maggie C. 628 Lee, Celina C. 999 Chen, Jessica S. 000 Rao, Partha S. 164 Yu, Serena 501 Li, Albert H. 162 Chen, Ryan M. 000 Ruehl, Elizabeth 166 Zhou, Harvey 602 Li, Eric 628 Chiu, Tien 000 Yu, Wiley 455 Zietz, Elizabeth 999 Li, Felisha A. 164 Dickson, Kelly 000 Zheng, Rachel 450 Liew, Haesung 710 Fan, Ashley TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY 600 Lim, Athena L. 303 Flores, Jared C. HOLLISTER 164 Lim, Dylan DAY SCHOOL 160 Han, Ji Yun SAN BENITO H. S. 451 Veksler, Avigdor 722 Lin, Melody 836 Hu, Jasper Y. 999 Rosette, Aeja K. 000 Lin, Robert 678 Jang, Justin S. 450 Lin, Yvette Y. 454 Jang, MiHyun HUNTINGTON BEACH UNIVERSITY H. S. 999 Liu, Joanna Y. 162 Kang, Kaylee Y. EDISON H. S. 218 Ahn, Jiwon 303 Liu, Richard 466 Kao, Michael 628 Blatt, Megan K. 628 Bota, Peter G. 200 Lu, Angela 160 Kim, Timothy J. 162 Phan, Brian C. 162 Chang, Alison J. 164 Luu, Minnie 628 Kwon, Ah-Yeon 999 Chen, Phil H. 459 Muslim, Arbaaz 520 Lee, Christopher HUNTINGTON BEACH H. S. 451 Cheng, Justin 160 Ng, Michelle 185 Choi, Baek Gyu 466 Lee, Michelle 450 Sakamoto, Jessica M. 454 Nguyen, Andrew H. 999 Choi, Minu 843 Lee, Nicholas Z. 450 Suzuki, Akira 700 Park, Julia 999 Chow, Isabelle 999 Li, Timothy H. 459 Valenta, Claudia 628 Patel, Avi C. 710 Cranston, Dillon 628 Lin, Elaine 450 Wiley, Nicholas D. 450 Pi, Anna 162 Loh, Sharleen Y. 999 Dhindsa, Hartejas 628 Ramesh, Ashish 627 Ding, Eirene 999 Lu, Kathy MARINA H. S. 303 Ramsundar, Aarthi 454 Mechem, Vanessa J. 300 Fan, Yuchen 168 Conroy, Kaitlin M. 628 Reddy, Akhil T. 832 Nguyen, Andrew K. 000 Garg, Anita 999 Ross, Vivian 451 Paine, Mark B. 550 Giblin, Laurel A. OCEAN VIEW H. S. 628 Sakleshpur, Sonia 161 Park, Christine 000 Guo, Shiyuan 467 Lee, Christopher 450 Shih, Sabrina J. 999 Pau, Allen 300 Hilby, Craig 000 Singh, Lavanya 185 Razi, Riyaz S. 605 Kong, Linghao 160 Sivakumar, Gautham 160 Ro, Hannah H. INDIO 450 Kozlowski, Patryk T. 000 Smith, Avery J. 303 Sun, Austin J. SHADOW HILLS H. S. 600 Lee, Juwon 999 Song, Michelle C. 300 Wang, Regina Z. 000 Wyman, Nicholas E. 000 Li, Albert Y. 773 Su, Crystal B. 160 Wang, Sean 000 Liu, Lucy L. 628 Su, Vivian 162 Wang, William S. IRVINE 000 Majumder, Asmita 999 Suresh, Adithya 167 Xu, Sherry Y. ARNOLD O. BECKMAN H. S. 948 McPhie, Emily 999 Swarnakar, Ankush 466 Yi, Joon-Soo J. 000 Biswas, Pradyun 450 Mitchell, Audrey E. 999 Teng, Emily 628 Zhou, Jeffrey 000 Cai, Angela 161 Patel, Anushi Y. 600 Trivedi, Aditya 000 Chen, Erik 999 Patel, Ishana 999 Tsai, Jolene GARDEN GROVE 000 Chu, Brian 602 Sharma, Neal N. 000 Tseng, Alexander BOLSA GRANDE H. S. 000 Du, Sara 200 Shin, Yong Jun 843 Vien, Michael H. 467 Ho, Long H. 000 Gerchick, Darren 457 Sun, Dylan 999 Vuppaladhadiam, Lahari 000 Hajali, Patrick 907 Sun, Kexin C. 000 Wadhwa, Anna PACIFICA H. S. 000 Hyung, Seeun 999 Wong, Jessica 171 Wang, Alana H. 000 742 Gao, Lynn M. Kim, Lucas 000 Zhang, Elaine Y. 000 Wang, Andre Y. 000 302 Hsueh, Jerlene Lee, Erica 000 Zhao, Ashley 999 Wang, Helen 000 467 Stevens, Ryan Murray, Daniel 000 Zhao, Yun 999 Wang, Joyce 000 Nguyen, Britney 450 Wang, Michael Y. 000 Pan, Jennifer 999 Wu, Brendan GILROY 000 Park, Grace WOODBRIDGE H. S. 629 164 Wu, Derek DR. T. J. OWENS GILROY EARLY 000 Pham, Elaine Chang, Elizabeth P. 160 000 Wu, Kevin COLLEGE ACADEMY 000 Saini, Rajan Chang, Ryan N. 712 999 Wu, Max C. 600 Badoni, Mayoli 000 Seo, Minji Chatterjee, Shreya 999 843 Xiong, Xinle 461 Lakdawala, Sanaaya 000 Shi, Marva Chong, Lindsay H. 830 999 Yao, John 000 Suresh, Aditya Fisher, Natali 628 000 Yin, Raymond R. GLENDALE 000 Tang, Orion Kim, Iyoung E. 451 999 Yu, Xiao GLENDALE H. S. 000 Teng, Sarah Kliman, Peter 520 999 Yuan, Cindy 450 Peralta, Robert N. 000 Tran, Tuong-Minh Koh, Lauren 602 836 Yung, Claire H. 000 Weaver, Tristan Le, Dustin N. 303 000 Zhang, Emmanuelle Z. GLENDORA 000 Wong, Jason Lee, Jefferson K. 999 628 Zhang, Michelle H. GLENDORA H. S. 000 Wu, Ziyi Lu, Selena J. 000 999 Zhou, Chenxing 303 Wang, Brandon 000 Xu, Michelle Park, Hannah 301 Zhou, Chenyu 162 Park, Janice H. 303 Tong, William X. GOLETA CREAN LUTHERAN H. S. WASHINGTON H. S. DOS PUEBLOS H. S. 628 Liu, Danielle 628 Chu, Rachel K. 897 Henrie, Maxwell X. KENTFIELD 170 Gunady, Ella 999 Pan, Francis Y. HOMESCHOOL MARIN CATHOLIC H. S. 461 Ho, Christopher 160 Roney, James 121 McBeath, Lily C. 160 Freda, Kate

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LA VERNE BRENTWOOD SCHOOL 200 Zhou, Hongxiao California (continued) BONITA H. S. 999 Ansell, Nathan 467 Zhu, Eric M. 303 Woo, Justin 999 Bookin, Chase L. 450 Liebeskind, Alexander MILPITAS 303 Mendelson, Jonathan D. LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE LAFAYETTE MILPITAS H. S. FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY ACALANES H. S. 303 Bui, Phi-Long N. SCHOOL 999 Fang-Horvath, Hallie ALEXANDER HAMILTON H. S. 628 Chan, Ivan 943 Raanan, Benjamin S. 999 Chang, Isaac E. 303 Ashworth, Brendan M. 999 Fang-Horvath, Sierra S. 303 Cho, Brandon H. 900 Chang, Suha 450 Kalil, Madeline 628 Do, Hope A. 252 Krishnakumar, Jayasri 742 Mudgett, Malia F. LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR 843 Seok, Simwon 600 Lalwani, Ria 160 Yates, Martha A. ENRICHED STUDIES 303 Shrotriya, Samik 628 Le, Jonathan 999 Avliyakulov, Murad 455 Su, Lawrence 000 Oakes, Conrad G. BENTLEY SCHOOL 999 Basu, Henry S. 000 Poole, Sunay H. 833 DeVries, Kaitlin 451 Heard, Samuel D. 454 Turner, Catherine V. 970 Hong, Yeram MISSION VIEJO LAGUNA BEACH 833 Robertson, Connor J. CAPISTRANO VALLEY H. S. 461 Dewing, Jonah LA CANADA H. S. LAGUNA BEACH H. S. 906 Hoffs, Charlotte T. LOYOLA H. S. 200 Liu, Michelle 600 Aron, Arjun 999 Keyser, Andrew J. 303 Cox, Stephen O. 160 Yang, Elisa 946 Backer-Peral, Veronica 907 Ravenna, Joseph 743 Dennis, Jeremiah J. 740 Hu, Yiyin 450 Sharp, Benjamin R. 907 Donohoe, Benjamin R. TRABUCO HILLS H. S. 629 Lee, Erica J. 451 Kendall, Jackson W. 455 Akers, Karina L. 999 Menemenlis, Christos 999 McDonald, Nicholas P. 300 Bao, Darren K. 999 Min, Harrison B. LAKE FOREST EL TORO H. S. 303 Myers, Christopher T. 710 Verma, Ashish 999 Northrop, Blake 162 Scandaliato, Richard J. 450 Wang, Jenny 741 Randolph, Matthew C. 501 Kattapuram, Joel J. 906 Machesky, Jackson J. 907 Suk, Averi D. MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL MODESTO 250 Wu, Cora J. LARKSPUR 000 Crotta-Cox, Juliana M. CENTRAL CATHOLIC H. S. REDWOOD H. S. 000 Franco, Isabella O. 836 Kellner, Vivian B. ST. FRANCIS H. S. 455 Fitzgerald, John 000 Raquel, Carmina A. 999 Gould, Nicholas P. 946 Root, Russell JAMES C. ENOCHS H. S. 450 Walsh, Jack JOHN MARSHALL H. S. 905 Hilliker, Aaron P. LA CRESCENTA 999 Kim, Min K. 302 Hilliker, Jacob A. CLARK MAGNET H. S. 467 Ott, India I. LIVERMORE JOSEPH A. GREGORI H. S. 160 Krkasharian, Lilit L. GRANADA H. S. 740 Tzeng, Rane P. 455 Hijaouy, Zakaria A. 160 Larson, Emory 185 Sibala, Dhiraj R. CRESCENTA VALLEY H. S. 454 Singhal, Meenakshi MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL 000 Gold, Ryan S. 999 Bayard, Alexandra A. 300 Wang, Kaitlyn MODESTO H. S. 999 Bhadha, Zerxes R. 000 Saliman, Aaron 162 Choahn, Daniel 450 Hamkins, Kiran S. LIVERMORE H. S. PILGRIM SCHOOL 303 Jeon, William H. 999 Brown, Miriam MONROVIA 303 Kang, Joyce J. 833 Brancato, Francesca D. 830 Cooke, Piper A. MONROVIA H. S. 870 Lee, Su A. 712 Lee, Jonathan 302 Nakamura, Nathan 160 Li, Miranda LOMA LINDA 200 Park, Kevin S. SHALHEVET H. S. LOMA LINDA ACADEMY MONTEBELLO 870 Ramos, Francisco N. 200 Goulbourne, Lyle P. 000 Hirschhorn, Samuel N. 467 Rowe, Kevin V. SCHURR H. S. 999 Hung, Destinee T. 946 Wang, Justin K. LONG BEACH WINDWARD SCHOOL 000 Lemann, Spencer 836 Martinez-Banegas, Luis D. LONG BEACH POLYTECHNIC H. S. 162 Saisho, Mitchell U. LA HABRA 740 Fleming, Thomas M. SONORA H. S. 999 Oca, Andrew W. LOS GATOS LOS GATOS H. S. MONTEREY 185 Suh, Hanna TRINITY CHRISTIAN H. S. 457 Brodie, Bates B. ROBERT A. MILLIKAN H. S. 600 Perez, Michael O. 457 Cox, Tristan R. 454 Chou, Charissa J. LA JOLLA 450 Field, John H. 999 Lee, Asaph S. YORK SCHOOL THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL 943 McCanny, Molly C. 000 162 Agha, Kaden Chang, Liam J. 999 Song, Michael 000 Coats, Claire G. LOOMIS DEL ORO H. S. 164 Tiwari, Ritaank 000 Deokule, Simran S. 999 Wang, Handong MOORPARK 000 Fan, Valerie A. 000 Scott, Ethan J. MOORPARK H. S. 000 Isaacson, Loren A. 000 Zayante, Juniper 830 Medlock, Dawson G. 000 Kim, Na Yeon MALIBU 000 Kim, Naomi LOS ALAMITOS MALIBU H. S. 000 Kapler, Chase T. MORAGA 000 Kimijima-Dennemeyer, Rita M. LOS ALAMITOS H. S. CAMPOLINDO H. S. 000 Peng, Evan D. 000 Kulkarni, Abhishek S. 160 Deng, Kevin C. 000 Shi, Yuxin 000 Lee, Jina MANHATTAN BEACH 450 Goldblatt, Arthur H. 000 Tang, Veronica J. 000 Schissel, Taylor T. HOMESCHOOL 162 Moore, Audrey 000 Tian, William S. 000 Wang, Chelsey Y. 000 Rojko, Tony J. 900 Rodriguez, Lauren 000 Wang, David G. 459 Todd, Noah LOS ALTOS MIRA COSTA H. S. 450 Uthayakumar, Athya LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL LOS ALTOS H. S. 712 Cohn, Joseph P. 999 Zhong, Tanya 303 Geller, Noah S. 999 Fogler, Truman D. 942 Cheng, Shirley 204 Fu, Evan S. 450 Gist, Alexander J. MORGAN HILL 870 Ghaffari, Nadia O. 999 Ibrahim, Mason I. LA JOLLA H. S. OAKWOOD SCHOOL 303 Kutsyy, Albert 905 Kelleher, Thomas R. 161 Aalaei, Sahra M. 999 Murphy, Claire A. 000 Labuda, Evan P. 303 Kim, Ray H. 628 Backlund, Alexandra H. 999 Liu, Alan 999 Le, Alexander M. 712 Deng, Samantha X. ANN SOBRATO H. S. 160 MacInnis, Emily J. 830 Lu, Peter J. 160 Dessert, Grace E. 303 Jackson, Amanda K. 162 Matthew, Tanya T. 162 Miao, Jennifer 999 Dorst, William J. 999 Subramanian, Ananya R. 000 Qi, Josephine J. 204 Duong, Sabrina MOUNTAIN VIEW 168 Toomre, Reese B. 302 Scalabrini, Jonathan C. 302 Hu, Hannah GERMAN INTERNATIONAL 999 Varghese, Avi 712 Schlick, Lauren A. 907 Leonard, Max H. SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY 209 Veytser, Samuel A. 160 Leone, Madison R. 000 Neubrand, Johannes 000 Vronsky, Michael MARYSVILLE 300 Lin, Cindy 000 Wang, Allison L. MARYSVILLE H. S. 160 Liu, Hudson MOUNTAIN VIEW H. S. 161 Wu, Aline Y. 450 Simeroth, William M. 302 Passananti, Joyce E. 740 Cai, Andrew J. 000 Yeo, Darryl H. 900 Raj-Silverman, Isha S. 906 Chao, Timothy 303 Yu, Justin V. 628 Tsai, Audrey E. MILL VALLEY 160 Cheng, Allen 999 Yuan, Joanne TAMALPAIS H. S. 303 Ciao, Daniel 999 Pletcher, Samuel J. 792 Delaney, Brian C. LA MESA LOS ALTOS HILLS 164 Donahue, Rebecca G. HOMESCHOOL PINEWOOD SCHOOL MILLBRAE 454 Frees, Daniel M. 522 Simon, Jessica E. 162 Rodriguez Steube, Maria C. MILLS H. S. 000 Ghosh, Ryan 300 Carson, Jasmine 999 Hoberman, Benjamin A. LA MIRADA LOS ANGELES 894 Chan, Kaitlyn 870 Jung, Jae LA MIRADA H. S. THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 522 Eschen, Carson 000 Karolczak, Eva O. 999 Kim, Daniel J. 000 Germano, Claire A. 455 Huang, Sarah 451 Liu, Rolan

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830 Jagani, Shaan 160 Ting, Karina PALOS VERDES ESTATES California (continued) 843 Joo, Dominick I. 000 Zhang, Jasmine PALOS VERDES H. S. 451 Ke, Alexander 200 Agrawal, Sachit S. 772 Kim, Joel PACIFIC GROVE 160 Nash, Austin L. 520 Mueller, Audrey J. 628 Liu, Jonathan D. PACIFIC GROVE H. S. 209 Nash, Brandon W. 000 Nelson, Ray O. 999 Loo, Yi-Shen A. 162 Bitter, Sarah R. 185 Norris, Angelina S. 200 Peltier, Bryan K. 303 Mendelsohn, Jaren P. 200 Park, Sue Yeon 940 Petti, Anna 907 Michaels, Ella Q. PACIFIC PALISADES 164 Zhang, Roger 450 Robinson, Maryann 303 Opell, Aaron J. PALISADES CHARTER H. S. 907 Shahiar, Neda 160 Pak, Yea-Lyn 870 Ghodsian, Ashley A. PALOS VERDES PENINSULA 843 Wang, Howard 999 Ren, Stephen C. 999 Gottesman, Daniel M. CHADWICK SCHOOL 160 Wong, Nolan S. 999 Shuai, Richard W. 550 Thibodeaux, Pierre N. 999 Foster, Owen 160 Yang, Eunice 740 Standish, Jack C. 999 Shim, Taesun 303 Zhang, Cathy 162 Stoutenburg, Dylan M. PALO ALTO 904 Toups, Connor J. 999 Zhou, Alan Y. 999 Vasudevan, Visishtah Narayan CASTILLEJA SCHOOL 000 Zhou, Amy F. 450 Guha, Sreya E. ST. FRANCIS H. S. OAKWOOD SCHOOL 999 Gupta, Arushi G. PASADENA 628 Ambatipudi, Mythri 000 Mendelsohn, Juliana M. 999 Kona, Zoe JOHN MARSHALL 254 Asuncion, Matthew J. 999 Rhee, Kaitlin FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOL 160 Baskaran, Nithyashri NOVATO 999 Sandhu, Simran K. 454 Ashkaryan, Kachik 160 Bhattacharya, Rishi SAN MARIN H. S. 999 Sonecha, Ria V. 175 Schlecht, Abigail B. 999 Biswas, Shopnavo 301 Clark, Ryan P. 999 Chen, Christina HENRY M. GUNN H. S. MAYFIELD SCHOOL 303 Chern, William W. OAK PARK 185 Agarwal, Arushi 999 Nail, Elizabeth L. 303 Fernandez, Miranda E. OAK PARK H. S. 906 Arun, Advait 450 Parisi, Elizabeth A. 302 Goyal, Nikita 999 Attanti, Sumedha 454 Baharav, Carmel 303 Gudibande, Arnav 628 Juwadi, Kavya R. 628 Chandra, Anand POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL 454 Jain, Rishabh 160 Lee, Matthew J. 302 Chang, Kyu-Ri 000 Bradforth, Emma E. 900 Kapur, Amisha 999 Sun, Carol K. 450 Chen, Joshua L. 000 Chatterjee, Shivani J. 302 Karur, Naren 742 Trux, Alexandra N. 999 Chen, Tiffany 000 Cire, Dallas 303 Ke, Andrew 553 Daniel, Clarissa Y. 000 Demetriades, Lucas P. 175 Kim, Nicole OAKDALE 218 Dong, Andrew 164 Feingold, Jacob H. 451 Law, Jared OAKDALE CHARTER H. S. 301 Gao, Alex 000 McCarthy, Elizabeth B. 185 Lee, Sonya S. 710 Sanford, Chase 000 Gordon, Noah G. 214 Sherwindt, Hannah G. 160 Lu, Stephanie Y. 948 Guo, Crystal C. 000 Wuthrich, Nicholas H. 999 Morissette, Thomas M. OAKLAND 200 Hristov, Deiana 628 Muthyala, Prerna COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL 999 Lee, Catherine WESTRIDGE SCHOOL 303 Nguyen, Kelley 628 Qin, Ashley E. 000 Breber, Emma L. 212 Lee, Young Suk 467 Ranade, Rayva A. 999 Chapin, Natalie M. 171 Li, Ethan J. 160 Rao, Kushaal 000 Du, Yue 303 Li, Kevin PASO ROBLES 103 Sardal, Riya R. 000 Guo, Janet C. 836 Mishra, Ankur K. PASO ROBLES H. S. 456 Shanmugam, Adithya V. 999 Jones, Audrey T. 000 New, Rachel N. 160 Smith, Zachary T. 999 Silva, Jan Gabrielle P. 999 Katari, Michael F. 200 Ng, Joseph H. 160 Su, Jessica 999 Lin, Alexander J. 843 Pan, Leny PEBBLE BEACH 628 Walsh, Sabrina K. 185 Liu, Tiffany T. 303 Sachidanandan, Adnaan A. STEVENSON SCHOOL 160 Wang, Tuan 836 Lyons, Jake C. 457 Shau, David 700 Chiu, Christopher Y. 999 Xiao, Eric Y. 628 McCulloch, Margaret E. 161 Sheu, Lauren Y. 999 Xu, Jerry D. 200 Menon, Neha S. 450 Shi, Andrew Z. PIEDMONT 303 Yang, Kory 999 Parekh, Tara E. 254 Sweidy Stata, Raychel PIEDMONT H. S. 450 Vawter, Logan W. 455 Tao, Zhuoran 999 Coleman, Ellen C. MURRIETA 712 Wornow, David J. 450 Wang, Liana 161 Hunter, Eva D. MURRIETA VALLEY H. S. 999 Wu, Yuhang V. 160 Wang, Max C. 160 Kucirek, Juliet 999 Kim, Jeffrey 450 Zheleznyak, Adam A. 459 Xie, Gregory 000 Srivastava, Rohan B. 160 Yang, Arthur 999 Tellegen, Mira B. NAPA HEAD - ROYCE SCHOOL 300 Yang, Daphne 999 Yu, David D. JUSTIN - SIENA H. S. 000 Bartlett, Audrey N. 301 Zhu, Daniel E. 999 Gulrajani, Natalie 000 Chu, Alice PLACENTIA 454 Kenaston, Matthew W. 000 Dang, Lawrence H. KEHILLAH JEWISH H. S. VALENCIA H. S. 000 Kojima, Sophia Maxine 833 Kaplan-Lipkin, Avi 999 Bhupathy, Ashwin J. NEWBURY PARK 000 Teuscher, Noah 628 Zimand, Liran A. 162 Kim, Erika NEWBURY PARK H. S. 000 Yuen, Nathan 162 Kim, Erin 999 Bai, Lois M. PALO ALTO H. S. 742 Kim, Junil 450 Chen, Kevin BISHOP O'DOWD H. S. 461 Ardeshna, Devin A. 160 Thio, Ethan D. 843 Chew, Juliana L. 970 Liu, Alicia D. 450 Chin, Maya L. 300 Yee, Christy A. 790 Dvoretzky, Ayla M. 906 Cockerell, Emma M. 600 Yoon, Amy 999 Hsu, Winston S. OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 162 Craig, Samuel E. 742 Joshi, Megan 946 Pandey, Achintya 906 Doubson, Julia N. PLACERVILLE 999 Kim, Hyunsoo 830 Duffie, Cornelius H. CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL 161 Kim, Rachel S. OAKLAND TECHNICAL H. S. 000 Foster, Reed A. 450 Murdock, Michael A. 712 Nguyen, Cac-Han 904 Barrilleaux, Francois E. 303 Goyal, Ushana 999 Xi, Brian J. OCEAN GROVE CHARTER SCHOOL 999 Carrere, Leah M. 000 Gubbens, Derek H. 999 Hanlon, Michelina 457 Goldberg, Aden 450 Hagen, Xander NEWPORT BEACH 940 Hildebrand, Gail C. CORONA DEL MAR H. S. 000 Hong, Chloe Z. PLEASANT HILL 999 Goldenberg, Jeffrey H. OCEANSIDE COLLEGE PARK H. S. EL CAMINO H. S. 000 Huang, Ronaldo C. 628 Marlo, John A. 000 Jawetz, Christopher L. 833 Figen, Jacob R. 999 Dee, Paris 204 Mickelsen, Liam 000 Kim, Edward 204 Zhou, Jaron M. 628 Stemler, Lian M. 000 Kim, Kevin PLEASANTON 843 Tolsma, Ryan 200 Leng, Mei M. AMADOR VALLEY H. S. OJAI 300 Liu, Eric X. 999 Bhandari, Thrishna SAGE HILL SCHOOL THE THACHER SCHOOL 870 Liu, Ryan C. 453 Bilkic, Ines M. 171 Ansari, Farooq F. 999 Hardwicke, Joseph B. 630 Lok, Sarah E. 741 Chen, April D. 999 Huang, Ian S. 999 Kallett, Ethan 000 On, Alvin Z. 209 Chin, Isabella L. 907 Saboorian, Sarah N. 999 O'Neill, Kathleen J. 628 Poe, James 162 Choo, Young Joo K. 457 Sanchez, Alfonso 906 Qiao, Julia 230 Dhingra, Megha 559 Walenta, Matthew S. ORANGE 821 Rumelhart, Joseph D. 000 Gao, Kevin EL MODENA H. S. 162 Sharma, Vijay A. 742 Griston, Molly J. NORTH HOLLYWOOD 000 Tucker, Nicholas S. 999 Shieh, Andrew 906 Hawkins, Mackenzie O. CAMPBELL HALL 999 Singhal, Mihir A. 999 Huang, William B. 000 Farid, Daniel J. ORANGE LUTHERAN H. S. 300 Soundararajan, Kesavan A. 300 Iyer, Varun 000 Kustin, John W. 185 Penn, Natalie E. 170 Stephenson, Renee N. 160 Jolly, Arnav 740 Su, Tanli 000 Ju, Jerry NORTH HOLLYWOOD H. S. ORINDA 522 Wang, Tristan 000 Kheny, Sachi 999 Bulwa, Felix B. MIRAMONTE H. S. 303 Wu, Jerry 000 Koyyada, Anurag 168 Hewitt, Sophia M. 300 Banisadr, Eric C. 000 Yu, Stephanie 000 Krishnaswamy, Shreyas 160 Hu, Robin 459 Liu, Angeline 000 Zhang, Ashley 000 Lee, Rachel S. 833 Jagani, Roshan A. 303 Shen, Jeremy K. 000 Zhuang, Frances 000 Li, Oliver F.

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830 Ortega, Daniel D. 628 Liang, Michelle A. 999 Yang, Stephen California (continued) 450 Pugazhendhi, Pranit 167 Yu, Michael 450 Yu, Jannie 185 Ritchie, Emily A. 459 Zhang, Andrew 600 Roach, Caroline M. SACRAMENTO 303 Zhang, Cecilia 000 Lilja, Cathrine M. 450 Wang, Henry L. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H. S. 740 Zhang, Jacob 000 Lin, Matthew Y. 204 Xiang, Phillip T. 459 Karalli, David M. 303 Zhu, Zilu 000 Menon, Rohit K. 185 Zhuang, Wesley 303 More, Ayush REDDING C. K. MC CLATCHY H. S. 301 Natarrajan, Raahul SHASTA H. S. 000 Karlsen, Amos CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC H. S. 742 Peng, Kenneth L. 900 Matagulay, Aislinn S. 000 Pham, Elyse 999 Moreau, Madeleine J. 999 Pereira, Julianna L. 999 Moon, Andrew K. 300 Reddy, Pranav MIRA LOMA H. S. DEL NORTE H. S. 302 Regmi, Simran UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY 000 Arun, Adith S. 160 Chandramohan, Advaita 300 Sharma, Mayank SCHOOL 185 Flamm, Carson W. 999 Chen, Kevin J. 772 Shimanuki, Stacy K. 970 Liu, Kevin D. 160 Jiang, Bowen 450 Chen, Valerie K. 162 Sridhar, Sunidhi 710 Jung, Edward 300 Cheng, Sarah K. 907 Swaminathan, Nithya REDLANDS 161 Kumar, Nikhilesh G. 160 Du, Carolyn 457 Thendean, Fiona H. REDLANDS EAST VALLEY H. S. 999 Maglalang, Jack A. 459 Gaytan, Christian F. 450 Thomas, Alan J. 171 Kristoffersen, Matthew E. 166 Sharma, Khounish 999 Hong, Rose M. 160 Toor, Hartej S. 000 Wang, Sophia J. 600 Kadaba, Sukruth S. 455 Tor, Alice REDLANDS H. S. 000 Yong, Harry 160 Kim, Sunwoo 450 Tor, Annie M. 712 Shammo, Renata 000 Yoon, Michael 628 Lam, Jordan 450 Tummala, Dhruv 303 Wilson, Tylan R. 161 Lee, Haemin J. 900 Vaidyanath, Varsha RIO AMERICANO H. S. 459 Lin, Everett 999 Varshney, Aastha REDONDO BEACH 214 Donnelly, West P. 628 Panda, Sameeksha 457 Venkatesh, Nandhakumar REDONDO UNION H. S. 700 Muilenburg, Zachary A. 999 Park, Emily 303 999 Yang, Jonathan H. 170 Chamas, Malek Ramesh, Anjali 170 214 Yu, Grace 999 Goodarzi, Navid R. ST. FRANCIS H. S. Schoppa, Nathaniel K. 303 999 Zhang, Nicole 300 White, Enoch E. 999 Fu, Olivia Suresh, Urmi 833 Zhang, Shawn B. 999 Ostrom, Amanda L. 162 Trost, Jessica S. 303 Zheng, Kevin 450 Xue, Claudia Q. REDWOOD CITY 629 Zeng, Tracy 628 Zhu, Jennifer S. SEQUOIA H. S. WEST CAMPUS H. S. 000 Burrill, Nathaniel J. 461 Jang, Michael FOOTHILL H. S. PATRICK HENRY H. S. 000 Culverhouse, Karsen M. 999 Chen, Benjamin G. 999 Chu, Kalos K. 000 Lo, Zachary C. SAN BERNARDINO 628 Hsu, Jessie 000 MacAvoy, Clara G. CAJON H. S. 454 Jeong, Donghyun HIGH TECH HIGH MEDIA ARTS 000 Marcus, Hannah E. 900 Cholbi, Isabel J. 300 Jiang, Hannah Q. 742 DeHaan, Soren P. 303 Joglekar, Manasi Y. SAN BRUNO 833 Li, Peggy P. RIVERSIDE MIRA MESA H. S. MARTIN LUTHER KING H. S. CAPUCHINO H. S. 999 Paranjpe, Nina 450 Cordero, Julia 200 Jones, Noah M. 303 Peng, Ziyi 454 Koh, Esther E. 454 Su, Yushan 999 Jayanthi, Niven 160 Pereira, Savita A. MOUNT CARMEL H. S. 999 Yao, Audrey E. 450 Rengarajan, Anirudh SAN DIEGO 836 Alfonzo, Carson 970 Wang, Nanxiang ACADEMY OF OUR LADY 300 Bost, Eileen J. 300 Wang, Sophia L. RIVERSIDE POLYTECHNIC H. S. 830 Cline, Jonathan P. 204 Smith, Claudia A. OF PEACE 836 Zhang, Emily 796 Grygar, Allison G. 628 Fox, Juliana M. 459 Tran, Johnathan T. RIVERSIDE STEM ACADEMY QUARRY LANE SCHOOL THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL 999 Kaur, Joymaneet 163 Kanrar, Nivedita 999 Hom, Haley MOUNT EVEREST ACADEMY 833 Narayanan, Srihari 450 Su, Morgan Z. 000 Hardianto, Priscilla 770 Sen, Ahana 501 Huang, Lucas O. ROCKLIN CANYON CREST ACADEMY 712 Arul, Boopalakrishnan PORTOLA VALLEY ROCKLIN H. S. FRANCIS W. PARKER SCHOOL 000 Nguyen, Julia 450 Aryan, Delara WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL 999 Beer, Michael 000 Appel, Troy B. 164 Duncan, Elizabeth C. 000 Campbell, Caitlin M. 000 Fay, Liam WESTERN SIERRA 000 Hall, Zachary T. COLLEGIATE ACADEMY 000 Chen, Anne POWAY 000 Chen, Maggie S. 000 McCulloch, Jeremy A. 999 Trehan, Michael L. POWAY H. S. 999 Choi, Jiwoo 000 Pai, Megan N. 000 Bartholomeusz, Evan J. 451 Colborn, Jennah 000 Partnoy, Natasha C. 628 Cheves, Hannah G. ROHNERT PARK 455 Ervin, Tamar 000 Waldman, Aviva 211 Liu, Kai Yuan TECHNOLOGY H. S. 628 Fuller, Joshua 450 Jenkins, Calvin D. 605 Ge, Yujia POINT LOMA H. S. QUARTZ HILL 450 Peterson, Collin 999 Gu, Sonia 450 Burnes, Trevor R. QUARTZ HILL H. S. 628 Ha, Jason 950 Omens, Jonathan 204 Kim, Vivian M. ROLLING HILLS ESTATES 999 Han, Eric 950 Roel, Julian T. PALOS VERDES PENINSULA H. S. 457 Huang, Andrew RAMONA 162 Baik, Matthew J. 999 Ji, Angela RANCHO BERNARDO H. S. RAMONA H. S. 600 Chang, Sean N. 999 Jiang, Kathleen 218 Chen, Daniel C. 462 Leonard, Victoria P. 467 Chang, Tyler K. 161 Kandula, Praneeth 999 Domsalla, Wesley M. 999 Chew, Alyssa B. 161 Kang, Joanne 000 Durkin, Elizabeth L. RANCHO CUCAMONGA 712 Chien, Christopher 628 Krishnamurthy, Nithya 999 Gopalan, Ayaan A. LOS OSOS H. S. 999 Hong, Ashley J. 459 Kumar, Kratin 000 Hunter, Samuel Y. 400 Du, Danielle 200 Hu, Robert 999 Larson, Nicholas 999 Leete, Rachel M. 882 Pan, Kelly 999 Kato, Kai Y. 161 Lee, Mhun-Jeong 000 Lu, Nina 160 Yang, Grace E. 742 Kim, Nathaniel J. 162 Li, Kevin 830 Ozturk, Robert C. 200 Kim, Yuna 162 Lin, Jason K. 303 Pickard, Bradley A. RANCHO CUCAMONGA H. S. 185 Lazarus, Michael D. 950 Lindberg, Maria 454 Chu, Winnie U. 462 Liu, Ryan 743 Liu, Rachael SCRIPPS RANCH H. S. 628 Young, Carissa C. 250 Liu, Samantha T. 451 Luo, Jim 000 Cantrell, Ryan J. 600 Louie, Daniel J. 904 Qiu, Jeffrey 904 Chang, Hyounjun RANCHO SANTA FE 553 Mueller, William T. 303 Rao, Rithvik 162 Datta, Poorvi HORIZON PREP 870 Ng, Riley K. 999 Roy, John 628 Lee, Joonhyuk 843 Creek, Aerin L. 164 Ni, Joshua S. 209 Ruan, Sarah 999 Luo, Jonathan 200 Panfil, Sabrina K. 628 Skinner, Samantha G. 740 Nuzen, Melba H. RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA 467 Schluper, Julia M. 000 Soler, Ferran 160 Richards, Gracie C. SANTA MARGARITA 463 Stam, Katherine H. 454 Stickels, Annika N. 700 Sferraa, Isabella A. CATHOLIC H. S. 820 Tanaka, Miho M. 741 Sun, Daniel D. 303 Snyder, Colin 160 Jennison, Jordan M. 451 Yohannan, Jonathan 303 Vuong, Erin 454 Wang, Matthew-Keane Q. 870 Kim, Sung Y. 742 Wang, Daniel 303 Wildenhain, Patrick I. 722 Senkowski, Andrew H. ROSS 999 Wang, Melissa 160 Sherwood, Susannah L. BRANSON SCHOOL 450 Wang, Orson JUNIPERO SERRA H. S. 999 Koehne, Niklas 160 Wang, Xiran 450 Langley, Tristan J. TESORO H. S. 160 Wesson, Grace 607 Tran, Michelle N. 450 Cheng, Brian T. ROWLAND HEIGHTS 451 Woytowitz, Sean 201 Cheng, Vincent D. JOHN A. ROWLAND H. S. 301 Wu, Nicole ST. AUGUSTINE H. S. 000 Mulligan, Alexander J. 520 Chin, Keilyn 628 Yan, Amy 999 Fudge, Nicholas

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SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL 300 Li, Michelle 160 Leung, Evan T. California (continued) PREPARATORY 619 Lin, Allison X. 999 Li, Jonathan B. 450 Pan, Katherine 161 Mahammad, Shahela A. 999 Liu, Rachel 450 Mani, Anirudh V. 303 Natarajan, Rahul L. 900 Haliburton, Ian G. SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY H. S. 457 Parekh, Shivani 628 Patel, Nikita J. 209 Misleh, Jason W. 160 Carter, Catherine 450 Qiu, Brian L. 303 Rauchwerk, Jason M. 302 Vecchioni, Nicholas C. 870 McBurnett, Kara 501 Qu, Larry 300 Sananikone, Sean Y. 302 Michael, Christopher S. 999 Sahasrabudhe, Sanika A. 627 Shin, Michelle 999 Subramani, Ananya 450 Shokrzadeh, Shyan TORREY PINES H. S. 160 Nooney, Robert J. 300 Ptacek, Gabor 628 Thiagarajan, Thisha J. 870 Sun, Yu Xin 303 Behrend, Jack 522 Savage, Princess 605 Tran, Andrew T. 160 Te, Charlene W. 451 Freedman, Thomas E. 450 Wen, Jenny J. 000 Vinodh, Sanjeev S. 466 Gelman, Isaac 218 Vu, Kristine T. 463 Gross, Benjamin W. ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE 999 Xia, Lucas M. 999 Hu, Kevin PREPARATORY SCHOOL THE HARKER SCHOOL 904 Xie, Spencer 999 Hu, Stacy 907 Doo, Cami 000 Arun, Akhil 450 Xu, Catherine J. 303 Kan, Reagan 999 Presher, Andrew A. 000 Banga, Anika 457 Youn, Tyler 600 Kim, Simon 303 Ring, Alexander S. 000 Batra, Praveen 200 Yuan, Timothy 160 Kuo, Jonathan 303 Tanlimco, Chloe L. 000 Bhimaraju, Divija A. 459 Zhang, Emily 161 Lian, Rachel 720 Veit, Cooper R. 000 Cardosi, Megan J. 200 Zhang, Matthew S. 162 Lin, Ryan 303 Wang, Madeline 000 Chen, Emily Y. 450 Zhao, Jonathan J. 742 Ren, Kevin 457 Young, Joshua Y. 000 Chen, Gwyneth S. 160 Zhou, Katheryn 999 Seong, Jungmo 000 Chen, Jerry 171 Shah, Karishma URBAN SCHOOL 000 Cheng, Kathleen 628 Tzeng, Jocelyn 000 Hancock, Hunter G. 000 Chu, Adrian H. LYNBROOK H. S. 628 Xie, Edward 000 Ngin, Zachary W. 000 Connors, Peter F. 000 Agrawal, Aarushi 459 You, Carine 000 Douglas, Morgan T. 000 Ajjarapu, Nikhil 450 Zhang, Lauren SAN GABRIEL 000 Dunphy, Amy C. 000 Basireddy, Bhuvanesh 950 Zhao, Andrew GABRIELINO H. S. 000 Gagneja, Shaan 000 Chen, Ashley 950 Zhou, Ryan 000 Dang, Jannelle 000 Garg, Swapnil 000 Chen, Athena Y. 629 Zimmer, Leianna 870 Liang, Ya Chi 000 Grebin, Anastasiya 000 Chen, William W. 163 Lung, Christopher H. 000 He, Jacqueline 000 Cheng, Myra 000 Hernandez, Adriano UNIVERSITY CITY H. S. 455 So, Hugo M. 000 Chiang, Bryan 000 Hsu, Kaitlin 000 Grubensky, Colin M. 204 Vuong, Benjamin 000 Chobisa, Harsh 000 Huang, Charlotte H. 459 McGee, Alexander T. 000 Damodaran, Ramachandran 000 Huang, Julia S. 833 Roosnovo, Alexandra K. SAN GABRIEL H. S. 000 Dhesikan, Rohan 303 Ting, Britney 000 Huynh, Megan B. 000 Doo, Amy 000 Jeong, Seunghoon WESTVIEW H. S. 000 Feng, Xingchen J. 000 Jin, Amy 000 Guo, Derek 000 Bao, Allison SAN JOSE 000 Kohli, Sumer 000 Hou, Elissa 000 Bradshaw, Nathan D. BASIS INDEPENDENT 000 Kumar, Maya S. 000 Huang, Catherine 000 Chen, Steven SILICON VALLEY 000 Lee, Matthew J. 000 Huang, Yuhsin V. 000 Chu, Robin L. 300 Baddam, Nitya R. 000 Li, Linus D. 000 Jain, Avinash 000 Dinh, Alan B. 999 Cao, William X. 000 Lin, Edgar Z. 000 Joo, Ah-Young 000 Fowler, Liam E. 999 Chen, Bethany 000 Lin, Millie J. 000 Ke, Eric 000 Galash, David A. 450 Chen, Brian 000 Lu, Serena 000 Kim, Christopher 000 Geng, Jamie 200 Gowda, Pavan R. 000 Mehta, Rahul 000 Kulkarni, Rohit 000 Guo, Ricky R. 160 He, Christopher A. 000 Michael, Alexandra E. 000 Laddad, Shadaj R. 000 Kang, Eric H. 740 Hou, Kimberly L. 000 Ohana, Jacob S. 000 Lin, Andrew Y. 000 Kim, Jeeyu A. 302 Huang, Jerry 000 Panchanatham, Vignesh K. 000 Liu, Jessica 000 Lee, Andrew 451 Kannan, Shrivats 000 Ramachandran, Neelesh K. 000 Mandic, Sara 000 Levin, Nir 303 Kapoor, Eish 000 Semenza, Andrew M. 000 Mehrotra, Rohan 000 Nasser, Rehana 999 Khandewale, Shreya R. 000 Sengupta, Anooshree 000 Mehta, Eshani 000 New, Kevin 160 Kin, Alvin 000 Sreekumar, Aashe 000 Mudupalli, Vineet 000 Nolan, Nicole 450 Krishna, Vinay 000 Srinivasan, Sahana G. 000 Munnangi, Shreya 000 Rajgopal, Nandini 303 Mitra, Rishab 000 Tjandrasuwita, Megan 000 Naikawadi, Abhinav 000 Siegel, Seth 160 Pavlov, Sergey D. 000 Tran, Eric 000 Narasimhan, Raksha M. 000 Wang, Charles Z. 999 Sun, Aaron L. 000 Wang, Alexander Z. 000 Nathan, Ashwin 000 Wang, Kerry X. 900 Thekkedath, Anushree M. 000 Wen, David J. 000 Paaske, Joshua J. 000 Yang, Jack 520 Wang, Nikki Y. 000 Yen, Derek J. 000 Pearce, Marcus R. 303 Yao, Ethan Y. 300 Wang, Patrick Z. 000 Zarkesh, Shaya 000 Peng, Kenneth C. 000 Yin, Andre A. 999 Ye, Angela A. 000 Zhong, Patrick 000 Pujare, Rajita N. 000 Yu, Kevin 628 Zhang, Lorne 303 Sengupta, Aubhro 000 Zeng, Angela J. HOMESCHOOL 000 Sha, Leo S. 000 Zhang, Eric BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY 999 Chang, Faith L. 000 Shao, Andrew Y. 000 Crandall, Emma G. 999 Srinivasan, Meera SAN FRANCISCO 300 Arya, Abhinav 830 Feliciano, Vince Matthew P. 999 Guan, Betty P. 000 Teng, Johnnie H. RUTH ASAWA SCHOOL OF 000 Yeo, Catherine H. 000 Thomas, Juhi C. THE ARTS 600 Gade, Neerav 450 Hadjiioannou, Themistocles 000 Tong, Daniel 450 Dimov, Roman 999 Healzer, William KIPP SAN JOSE COLLEGIATE 000 Tran, Matthew D. 559 Mitrovic, Dimitri A. 300 Hu, Dennis 162 Doan, Khoa A. 000 Tuo, Anney H. 942 Swenson-Heim, Audrey G. 160 Joseph, Solomon E. 300 Tran, Aaron C. 000 Vytla, Nikhil C. 450 Lodhavia, Aneesh M. 000 Wan, Emily Y. INTERNATIONAL H. S. 999 Ma, Jeffrey J. LEIGH H. S. 000 Wang, Christopher Y. 999 Chan, Hannah S. 450 Mehendale, Atharva N. 999 Fang, Patrick H. 000 Wang, Johnny C. 999 Onsori, Dariush 306 Park, Geoffrey G. 000 Wang, Shanqing LICK - WILMERDING H. S. 160 Oruganti, Maanas H. 459 Toy, Cameron 000 Yang, Eugene 459 Lau, Isaac K. 450 Ruiz, Mario J. 600 Zhang, Emily 999 Yang, Robert 999 Montagu, Silvana 600 Saha, Atul 000 Yuan, Margaret K. 830 Puckett, Samantha 450 Si, Phillip LELAND H. S. 000 Zhang, Angela Y. 000 Sifry, Melody R. 999 Sung, Kevin K. 833 Bento, Trinity 000 Zhang, Eric 740 Story, Christopher R. 300 Tucker, Quinn H. 454 Chen, Maxwell H. 000 Zhang, Michael 450 Wong, Matthew Raymond 628 Cho, Hannah S. 000 Zheng, Jessica A. LOWELL H. S. 450 Yang, George 160 Chong, William H. 000 Zhong, Eric 000 Chan, Victor L. 160 Farkhoor, Rojeen B. 000 Zhou, Matthew 999 Grishanina, Tatyana R. BRANHAM H. S. 303 Han, Jun-Hee 301 Zhou, Susan L. 999 Huang, Sophie 561 Dutta, Kunal 200 Huang, Bryan 000 Zhu, Bill 999 Kirkpatrick, Sierra 459 Irish, Jack A. 303 Jang, Wonsuk 000 Zou, Joe 000 Kwock, Samantha 450 Kim, Yookyeong 773 Kackar, Vishal M. 999 Liu, Shojeh 454 Lenz, Andrew 500 Kang, Miles J. ARCHBISHOP MITTY H. S. 522 McIntyre, Marlowe H. 160 Karandikar, Aarushi 999 Butler, Thomas 450 Sun, Eric EVERGREEN VALLEY H. S. 254 Kim, Allen 836 Co, Nathalie H. 999 Yee, Fontanna L. 999 Basava, Hrishika 430 Kim, June J. 450 Genevriere, Emily 302 Zhao, Janet M. 600 Chun, Katie Y. 457 Kim, Sang Gi 999 Jones, Derek W. 940 Zhu, Emily 303 Gunadhi, Kaitlyn K. 450 Le, Brian M. 999 Ju, William B. 999 Guo, Matthew 300 Lee, Alex 162 Kang, Andrew J. PROOF SCHOOL 999 Han, Kevin Z. 300 Lee, Roselyn 160 Kinsella, Amelia S. 000 Edholm, Freya 999 Joshi, Jwalin N. 302 Lee, Ryan Y. 999 Kozminski, Aleksander M.

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SAN LORENZO 628 Han, Simon SANTA CRUZ California (continued) ARROYO H. S. 999 Ho, Elaine PACIFIC COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 907 Bendell, Noah S. 170 Hsieh, Michael T. 904 Rorty, Ruby A. 455 Pan, Eileen 999 Huang, Lucy 999 Huo, Luvena 999 Law, Brenton Y. SANTA CRUZ H. S. 000 Inamdar, Ankita 870 Lee, Daisy SAN LUIS OBISPO 843 Gill, Jake J. 628 Jain, Akshat 772 Lim, Nichole R. SAN LUIS OBISPO H. S. 450 Hedrick, Helen R. 303 Jeon, Seohyun 209 Matlock, Danielle M. 451 Billing, Gus R. 999 Nolan, Emily K. 600 Jeong, Annie S. 720 Mau, Elizabeth G. 999 Roodsari, Susan Z. 999 Parsa, Sophie J. 200 Jo, Tae Hyoung 908 Meza, Gabriel L. 303 Joshi, Shubham 710 Olsen, Liam E. SAN MARCOS 712 Kambath, Amisha A. SANTA MONICA 773 Pai, Druv HIGH TECH HIGH - 999 Kim, Kyubin SANTA MONICA H. S. 451 Simka, Timothy A. NORTH COUNTY 999 Kim, Michelle 160 Dunn, Kelly H. 303 Veeramacheneni, Teja S. 773 Reiter, Abraham I. 870 Kong, Priscilla 999 Gilman, Cyril M. 204 Vobbilisetty, Rithvik R. MISSION HILLS H. S. 161 Lewsey, Haley R. 461 Graber, Edie N. 166 Andrews, Dana M. 303 Ley, Justin S. 999 McClain, Georgia L. NOTRE DAME H. S. 303 Lincoln, Sarah C. 999 Li, Michelle M. 940 Ollivier, Dylan 450 Jackson, Holly 209 Lin, Ivy 160 Seizer, Daniel R. 619 Kakaria, Reva SAN MARCOS H. S. 300 Liu, Emma 450 Todorov, Svetoslav S. 454 Mazumder, Mashia N. 459 Wang, Winston 160 Maharajh, Sarita C. 999 Ward, Kobe H. 000 Pineda, Daenerys I. 470 Wong, Julian 175 Mao, Natalie Y. 209 Ware, Emma C. 302 Yeh, Aurora B. 999 Mistry, Rishi D. SAN MARINO 303 Naidu, Vaibhav SANTA ROSA PIEDMONT HILLS H. S. SAN MARINO H. S. 999 Nugala, Rohith MARIA CARRILLO H. S. 628 Panda, Resha 600 Alviar, Brooke 000 Cheng, Elizabeth A. 000 Deng, Edward T. 185 Chen, Yiyu 000 Deng, Eric 607 Parikh, Nikki R. 999 Leung, Bruce 628 Duong, Phibi B. 209 Pasupathy, Gautham 454 Liang, Julia T. 101 Huang, Justin J. 451 Patkar, Anirudh D. SARATOGA 160 Luong, Dustin R. 904 Jett, Thomas R. 301 Prabahar, Shirlyn HOMESCHOOL 892 Tanna, Yash 162 Li, Vincent Y. 166 Prasad, Soumil 000 Belloncle, Jean-Luc 843 Wang, Michael J. 160 Liang, Joyce S. 303 Qiu, Robin S. 300 Wu, Brian 302 Natarajan, Ajay 209 Raghu, Keshav PROSPECT H. S. 302 Yuan, Joe 454 Oh, Kobe 999 Ramabadran, Rohini 160 Chen, Jessica 000 Shi, Tiffany H. 628 Ramesh, Rithvik 741 Mahajan, Aditi A. PRESENTATION H. S. 000 Tsang, Tenny 000 Rashid, Armaan 628 Reddy, Anish 451 Mandal, Tithi 999 Roth, Benjamin SARATOGA H. S. 160 Mathew, Alice R. SAN MATEO 999 Shi, Brandon W. 000 Chakravarthy, Ananya L. 999 Perumal, Ashna ARAGON H. S. 254 Su, Amanda Y. 000 Chen, Caitlyn A. 999 Cai, Arthur 209 Suragimath, Samay 000 Chen, Carolyn 742 Goel, Avichal SANTA TERESA H. S. 250 Wang, Karen T. 000 Chen, Stacey J. 999 Gong, Diana 450 Boronkay, Callahan W. 200 Wong, Kristie 000 Galivanche, Amith 166 Liu, Frank 451 Thammasouk, Alexis 160 Wu, Sherry 000 Goh, Eleanor 999 Shen, Eric 836 Yoo, Hyery 999 Yoon, Connie 000 Guan, Colina B. 450 Thompson, Meiling 000 Guo, Chengzi 999 Wang, Michael SILVER CREEK H. S. VENTURE SCHOOL 000 Guo, Samuel Z. 302 Xiong, Chris 000 Handoko, Kevin J. 000 Duong, Lan 522 Zhou, Lily 000 Goldie, Matthew B. 450 Palaparthi, Amritalakshmi 000 Hsu, Vera T. 000 Huang, Tiffany Y. HILLSDALE H. S. SANTA ANA FOOTHILL H. S. 000 Kar, Sohini UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY 999 Ip, Jamie J. 000 Kim, Ian ACADEMY 467 Liao, Benjamin H. 450 Asher, Adam 999 Davert, Grace 000 Kim, Jaehyun 000 Nguyen, Henry 000 Kim, Ryan 833 Shin, Bahda THE NUEVA SCHOOL 450 Okereke, Kristine 836 Sit, Nathan 000 Kranz, Anna D. 161 Singla, Ruchika 940 Byun, Michael J. 000 Kumar, Rahul 254 Chang, Sinead J. MATER DEI H. S. 000 Kumar, Shivaum VALLEY CHRISTIAN H. S. 999 Chroman, Zachary D. 999 Park, Nicholas S. 000 Lee, Angela 999 Ho, Katherine 906 Dowsett, Anthony 450 Smale, Natalie E. 000 Low, Michelle M. 950 McGinnis, Samantha M. 999 Saint-Loubert-Bie, Justin H. 000 Madhani, Avni P. 302 McKinney, Natalie E. 907 Steirman, Emily M. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF 000 Pradhan, Elora 836 Ponnekanti, Aamani 907 Xu, Justin L. THE ARTS 000 Sabato, William T. 628 Shah, Zachary A. 301 Si, Joshua J. 742 Courtney, Andrew 300 Sill, Jessica SAN MATEO H. S. 160 Song, Miranda 945 Hocking, Ariana J. 160 Tang, Quyen T. 742 Dunna, Vidhaat 450 Su, Ashley 140 Lee, JinWook N. 160 Vu, Alexander B. 999 Lu, Shannon 200 Tan, Mervi 162 Luna, Xochitl 303 Sai, Lily 000 Vadrevu, Sadhana 999 Ok, Katherine S. 204 Sun, Emily 000 Viswanath, Varun WILLOW GLEN H. S. 870 Ong, Emma 999 Xiao, Charles P. 000 Wang, Austin 303 Paredes-Kao, Nathan Y. 522 Park, Ashley S. 457 Saso, Noah J. 000 Wang, Kyle J. JUNIPERO SERRA H. S. 000 Wong, Bryan J. 999 Sweet, Jacob R. SEGERSTROM H. S. 999 O'Brien, Sean E. 000 Wu, Tyler 455 Vorreiter, Mary M. 454 Nguyen, Kevin Q. 999 Park, Jang Jun 000 Xue, Michael Y. 000 Wang, Tyler C. 000 Yin, Clifford P. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO SANTA BARBARA 000 Yuen, Atlas H. CAPISTRANO CONNECTIONS SAN RAFAEL SAN MARCOS H. S. 000 Zeng, Lillian ACADEMY MARIN ACADEMY 741 Donohoe, Kadin M. 000 Zhang, Catherine 303 Gullo, Charles E. 000 Ringness, Daniel 000 Faessel, Junna C. 000 Zheng, Andrew 000 Wall, Jessica E. J SERRA CATHOLIC H. S. 000 Zhao, Art J. SANTA BARBARA H. S. 771 Brotman, Austin 000 Everest, Thomas A. SAUGUS SAUGUS H. S. 162 Chu, Steven SAN RAMON 833 Klipfel, Alexandra P. 000 Douglas, Deven D. CALIFORNIA H. S. SANTA CLARA 700 999 Bhargava, Ishan J. ADRIAN C. WILCOX H. S. O'Connell, Sean D. 999 Williams, Peter J. SAN JUAN HILLS H. S. 740 Ghosh, Dhruba J. 999 Haeri, Neeki 451 Maharaj, Simhal 161 Cepeda, Joshua K. A. 000 Gow, Sean 000 Mandava, Nikhil 821 Sanchez, Nicholas P. 168 Gupta, Himadri SEBASTOPOL 870 Kim, Joanne 000 Mathew, Michelle A. ORCHARD VIEW SCHOOL 463 Lin, Justin T. 000 Stock, Alexandra L. 459 Kokott, Kaleb I. ST. MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL 303 Rathee, Rajat R. 000 Sundher, Sashwath SCHOOL 302 Reznikov, Leron M. 000 Morin, Alexandra K. SANTA CLARITA SHERMAN OAKS 000 Na, Hyewon DOUGHERTY VALLEY H. S. ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL 457 Chan, Daniel 170 Braga, Matthew 628 Yang, Hazel SAN LEANDRO 200 Deshmukh, Gaurav P. SAN LEANDRO H. S. 303 Fang, Alison ALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY FOR SHINGLE SPRINGS 743 Frager, Tobias H. 999 Guo, Selena LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES PONDEROSA H. S. 303 Sagan, Naomi I. 628 Han, Jingbo 999 Kang, Ethan S. 204 Hopman, William

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TEMPLE CITY VISTA California (continued) TEMPLE CITY H. S. RANCHO BUENA VISTA H. S. 742 Chen, Jason 999 Pihl, Catherine A. 999 Hou, Pojen SIERRA MADRE 430 Lai, Melissa Z. WALNUT ALVERNO H. S. 450 Wong, Kyle WALNUT H. S. 628 Chen, Victoria 450 Hua, Renee 450 Wu, Melody THOUSAND OAKS 459 Lo, Eugene Y. LA REINA H. S. 999 MacLeith, Ransom M. 628 Taing, Amanda L. SILVERADO 000 Matus, Jenna M. ST. MICHAEL'S PREPARATORY WALNUT CREEK SCHOOL THOUSAND OAKS H. S. 455 Kurata, Ronan LAS LOMAS H. S. 468 Goodwin, Thomas G. 162 Siegel, Kate J. SIMI VALLEY TORRANCE WEST COVINA SANTA SUSANA H. S. HOMESCHOOL SOUTH HILLS H. S. 160 Vakil, Anushka 209 Covey, Claire J. 160 Banh, Danika E. 454 Lin, Danna SIMI VALLEY H. S. SOUTH H. S. 522 Lu, Christopher T. 161 Bhandal, Deap 999 Bass, Elisa 300 Kim, Da Y. WEST HILLS 201 Lau, Timothy D. SOLANA BEACH CHAMINADE COLLEGE 450 Ma, Ezekiel C. PREPARATORY SCHOOL SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 303 Martinez, Aarin J. 450 Pasco, Gian Paolo C. 836 Delgado, Spencer P. 999 Shin, Deine 467 Sevilla, Yara B. WEST H. S. 999 Wadhwani, Elana A. 300 Lee, Jaeinn SOUTH PASADENA WESTLAKE VILLAGE SOUTH PASADENA H. S. TRACY OAKS CHRISTIAN H. S. 204 Ba, Kate J. TRACY JOINT UNION H. S. 999 Feinfield, Alexander J. 906 Jerebets, Marta S. 843 Nehra, Surya D. 450 Feinfield, Justin A. 710 Lee, Jae Jin 451 Kilpatrick, Chandler B. TURLOCK STOCKTON TURLOCK H. S. WESTLAKE H. S. HOMESCHOOL 000 Chian, Franklin 162 Bains, Mehtaab S. 843 LeBaron, Natalie L. 000 Chick, Saralynn M. 162 Rashidi, Neema 907 Sharp, Maya 999 Tatum, Robert M. LINCOLN H. S. TUSTIN 160 Chien, Nathaniel G. 843 Thuillier, Davis S. TUSTIN H. S. 467 Wang, Eric 451 Adams, Kade 999 Zhang, Albert MIDDLE COLLEGE H. S. 450 Ho, Bryan 836 Rico, Trinity Pauline B. WESTMINSTER UKIAH LA QUINTA H. S. STUDIO CITY DEVELOPING VIRTUE 300 Trinh, Tiffany HARVARD - WESTLAKE SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL 999 Vu, Kaitlyn 700 Ayala-McCormick, Diego C. 720 Gracia-Zhang, Miguel 773 Barkin, Jordan Z. WHITTIER 628 Choi, Gina UNION CITY LA SERNA H. S. 742 Feng, Kylin JAMES LOGAN H. S. 628 Lien, Kyle J. 904 Gilbert, Simon R. 175 Cho, Nicholas 999 Gong, Anna 185 Grewal, Abhijeet S. WILDOMAR 999 Halloran, Eleanor L. 303 Hu, Derek ELSINORE H. S. 999 Hoyang, Angel G. 990 Kona, Nikhil E. 185 Leffler, London C. 160 Kim, Nicole 160 Liao, Bryce 522 Lee, Sarah 201 Shen, Tong WOODLAND HILLS 164 Lu, Vivian 457 Sun, Albert H. EL CAMINO REAL CHARTER H. S. 254 Luo, Yi Ying 200 Barlow, Hanna N. 522 Malouf, Jarett E. 160 Neyyan, Josephine 999 Park, Aaron VACAVILLE 457 Ring, Adin L. VACAVILLE H. S. 000 Kato, Corey WOODSIDE 000 Rodriguez, Mason L. WOODSIDE H. S. 200 Swartz, Zachary J. 501 Bhavsar, Allison M. 999 Tauh, Pavan K. VALENCIA 467 Kraus, Mollie R. 209 Tufeld, Samuel T. VALENCIA H. S. 833 Woods, Laurel R. 907 Weinraub, Anthony M. 907 Farrow, Ryan W. 168 Zhou, Pearl Q. 999 Lee, Grace Y. SUNNYVALE 790 Moore, Autumn J. YORBA LINDA FREMONT H. S. 628 Tanwar, Ashita HOMESCHOOL 302 Chen, Shaina M. 250 Salladin, Cathryn G. 000 Ghanta, Shivani WEST RANCH H. S. 301 Konakalla, Neha 836 Chang, Megan YORBA LINDA H. S. 836 Manner, Katia A. 171 Cho, Shane F. 160 Foroushani, Shawyun 459 Patel, Aayush 710 Kim, Joshua Y. 160 Tang, Melody L. 164 Sakai, Hikari N. 999 Kim, Scott J. 501 Sriram, Niyati 970 Leigh, Vivila M. 202 Wang, Frank H. 999 Mohanty, Gokul 170 Wang, Michael Y. 628 No, Jennifer

THE KING'S ACADEMY VAN NUYS 000 Jang, Esther VAN NUYS H. S. 999 Pan, Edith T. 000 Han, Woo Zhong 300 Wong, Kyle K. 454 Lee, Claire 999 Park, Allen TEMECULA CHAPARRAL H. S. VENTURA 000 Paez, Berlin G. BUENA H. S. 628 Pal, Tanushree R. GREAT OAK H. S. 168 Han, James J. VILLA PARK 999 O'Kray-Murphy, Delaney M. HOMESCHOOL 450 Wedell, Colton TEMECULA VALLEY H. S. 999 Munro, Robert Z. VILLA PARK H. S. 170 Park, Allyson E. 451 Niizawa, Joseph M.