美國優秀學生獎學金National Merit Scholarship昨日公布了今年進入半決賽的學生名單，表爾威市Bellevue的Interlake高中連續第三年以27名學生入榜，成為華州入榜學生最多的學校。從大西雅圖地區各學校入榜名單來看，華裔學生表現不俗。
在Interlake高中之後，Sammamish的Skyline高中入榜18名學生，西雅圖著名的私立高中湖濱學校Lakeside School入榜16人。
進入美國優秀學生獎學金半決賽的是華州2016年PSAT考試得分最高的學生，去年有160萬學生參加該項考試。最後憑此成績進入美國優秀學生獎金半決賽的人數是按照華州高中畢業班學生人數佔全美同齡學生人數的百分比決定的。
要想進入決賽，學生必須提交完整的獎學金申請，包括成績單、短文essay和推薦信。大約90%進入半決賽的學生會進入決賽，半數躋身決賽的學生會獲得美國優秀學生獎學金。
** 各學校進入美國優秀學生獎學金的學生名單，按城市排：
Homeschool — Swofford, Katherine
BELLEVUE
BellevueHigh School —Bahn, Anthony; Dai, Julia; Fan, Sarah; Girnus, Clare; Huang, Emily; Lin,Jeffrey; Ma, Kevin; Shao, Nathan; Song, Henry; Yang, Heesoo; Zhao, Samuel
InterlakeHigh School —Bentley, Stephanie; Cao, Lilly; Dong, Richard; Guo, Tina; Huang, Christopher;Jiang, Peishan; Joy, Diya; Lee, Hyunjae; Li, Alexander; Li, Jenny; Liang,Jessica; Liu, Eric; Liu, Richard; Muntianu, Tudor; Rosenwald, Bryce; RoyChoudhury, Ritika; Sitomer, Niharika; Srikanth, Kavya; Trivedi, Aramya; Verma,Saijel; Wang, Grayson; Wijeratna, Aishanee; Wong, Austin; Yang, Michael; Yun,Sterling; Zhi, Sophia; Zou, Grace
NewportHigh School —Guo, Jimmy; Huang, Michael; Kim, Sooji; Lee, Peyton; Lim, Anne; Liu, Autumn;Mach, Yoeur-Man; Ouyang, James; Tsai, Valerie; Yang, Jay; Yang, Yerin; Zhao,Ivan
Sammamish High School —Ka, Taylor; Kuntz, Jonathan; Li, Tina; Shi, Megan; Tsai, Jeremy
BOTHELL
Bothell High School —Dowling, Kyrie; Gill, Vikram; Packer, Maxwell; Thomas, Clayton
ProvidenceClassical Christian School — Brokaw, Jeannine
WoodinvilleMontessori School —Chutani, Anisha
BURIEN
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School — Colgan, Samuel
COVINGTON
KentwoodHigh School —Watson, Stephen
DES MOINES
Mount Rainier High School — Le,Vy
DUVALL
Cedarcrest High School —Marshall, Cayley
ISSAQUAH
Issaquah High School —Fulford, Ruby; Heyrich, Abigail; Hong, Brian; Hwang, Erica; Jung, Jun Yong;Kiesewetter, Maria; Kim, Emily; Kim, Isaiah; Lee, Preston; Williams, Grant
KENMORE
Inglemoor High School —Agate, Kaylea; Cao, Jerry; Colberg, Brennan; Fraser-Koehler, Emma; Geier,Sebrena-Emira; Haining, Kyle; Hendry, Surya; Holt, Maya; Huang, Ethan; Lee,Seung Yeon; Lin, Noah; Nguyen, Andrew; Wu, Victor; Zhou, Alexander
KIRKLAND
Eastside Preparatory School —Medway, Drew; Newell, Christopher; Ryan, Alexandra Christine; Schreiber, EthanL.
International Community School —Ayad, Nour El-Din; Schwartz, Yaniv; Sun, Michael; Zhu, Daniel
Juanita High School —Liu, Arthur; Mehrvarzan, Shawdi
Lake Washington High School — Dorsey, Samuel; Mickelson, Zachary; Um, Michelle
MERCER ISLAND
Mercer Island High School —Dickstein, Alison; Dobson, Aidan; Guo, Joy; Hildebrandt, Donald; Ho, Jon;Hugunin, Mithril; McCann, Fiona; Schmidt-Warnecke, Christoph; Wang, Kenneth;Zou, Jasmine
MILL CREEK
Henry M.Jackson High School —Teoh, Justine
MONROE
Monroe High School —Boulter, Mitchell A.
MUKILTEO
Kamiak High School —Ong, Alexander; Tran-Pearson, Adrienna
PUYALLUP
Puyallup High School —Flury, Andrew; Van Bergeyk, Emily
Governor John R. Rogers High School —Critchfield, Braden
REDMOND
The Overlake School —Anikeeva, Nina; Armanasu, Martin; Jha, Rishi; Wan, Cassandra; Yeh, Catherine
RedmondHigh School —Chen, August; Christensen, Trevor; Ganz, Keenan; Hwang, Sophia; Jiang, Lucy A.;Li, Kathleen; Liu, Daniel; Meduri, Rohin; Qian, Virginia; Raffman, Emma; Wang,Anna
Nikola Tesla STEM High School — Cheng, Jeffrey; Goto, Christina; Hakim, Rashida; Kendal-Freedman,Natali; Kulkarni, Prerana; Lee, Anne; Nagvekar, Neha; Nain, Parth; Phadnis, Vaishnavi;Qin, Frederick; Sridhar, Suchi; Sudzilouski, Yury; Vasyura, Anna; Yue, Brandon
RENTON
Hazen High School —Hartley, Sarah
Liberty High School —Christopherson, Siri; Tuttle, Christina; Wick, William
Charles A. Lindbergh High School — Mauery, Ryan G.
SAMMAMISH
Eastlake High School —Birchfield, Abel; Parimi, Divya; Raggi, Clara; Van Nortwick, Maggie
Eastside Catholic High School —Didcock, Lillian; Gilani, Serena
Homeschool — Bleisch, Abigail
Skyline High School —Agarwal, Anjali; Alexander, Kevin; Beirer, Nicola; Cheng, Jasmine; Frazier, Brendan; Kaza, Sai Nischal; Kurpad, Shriya; Liao, Misty; Liu, Kaichen; Narayan,Gautam; Parasurama, Sriram; Qiang, Daniel; Rajavel, Maya; Ranganathan, Amartya;Tang, Christopher; Wan, Daniel; Wang, Kevin; Yu, Benjamin
SEATTLE
Bishop Blanchet High School —Broom, Matthew
The Bush School — Medina,Noah
Center School — Viola,Allegra
Garfield High School —Reid, Nathaniel; Scully, Kathleen; Simpkins, Brian; Veach, Nigel
Ingraham High School —Grim, Clara; Keyes, Tegan; Ovens, Colin; Zhou, Iris
Lakeside School —Burbage, Madeline; Chen, Andrew; Costa, Caio; Dwivedi, Uma; Friedman,Katherine; Hugh, Grant; Lau, Rachel; Lavery, Iman; Nghiem, Alexander; Paulsen,Kaitlyn; Ragen, William; Sanders, Justin; Turner, Jensen; Weed, Jasper; Wei, Austin; Zhang, Cheyenne
The Northwest School —D』Angeli-Brogan, Linus
Seattle Preparatory School —Cantrell, Ethan; Whitman, Noelle
Transition School and Early Entrace Program — Ault-McCoy, Dathan; Denq, Darren; Gnanapragasam, Logan; Xu,Amy
University Preparatory Academy —Rana, Isabella
SHORELINE
Shorecrest High School —Gresch, Shelby
Shorewood High School —Deobald, Leah; Rouse, Madeline; Shapiro, Alexander; Zhou, Julie
SNOHOMISH
Glacier Peak High School —Jorgensen, Freja; Surkov, Alexander;
Homeschool — Ross, Timothy
STANWOOD
Stanwood High School —Grierson, Hannah; Johnson, Joshua R.
TUKWILA
Raisbeck Aviation High School —Stukel, Caitlin; Wang, Timothy
VASHON ISLAND
Vashon Island High School —Chowning, Samuel
WOODINVILLE
Woodinville High School —Fung, Ashley; Klingman, Charles; Marie-Rose, Madeleine; McNally, Angelus;Rankich, Savannah; Shin, Leonard; Turner, Madeline E.