See the Studio City Students Making the National Merit Semifinalists

Dozens of students in Studio City have been named 2013 National Merit Semifinalists, the nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday in a news release.

Here are the local semifinalists:

Campbell Hall

Samuel Kim

Benjamin Lazebnik

Oakwood School

Avery Brust

Harvard-Westlake

Anser Abbas

Patrick Angelo

Justin Bae

Zachary Birnholz

Zoe Bohn

Jonathan Burns

Garrett Cayton

Sydney Cheong

Eojin Choi

Molly Cinnamon

James Edwards

Julie Engel

Andrew Friedman

Varun Gadh

Jack Goldfisher

Claire Goodman

Oliver Goodman-Waters

Henry Hahn

Vincent Huang

Katherine Jung

Peter Kim

Benjamin Klein

Anne Kors

Alexia Le

Jessica Lee

Michelle Lee

William Lee

Gregry Lehrhoff

Eric Lin

Eric Loeb

Matthew Lucas

Sarah Novicoff

Michael Okrent

Jensen Pak

Chelsea Pan

Rayne Peerenboom

Amita Pentakota

Divya Siddarth

Jonathan Sington

Mega Srivastava

Elizabeth Thomas

Aidan Victor

Bennett Victor

Mane Williams

Christina Woo

Kirk Woo

Frank Yeh

Alec Zadikian

Kevin Zhang

Larry Zhang

They will compete for about 8,300 scholarships worth more than a total $32 million. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to make it to the finals; just more than half of the finalists will win a scholarship.

The students will be judged by their scores on standardized tests, their grades, an essay and extracurricular activities.

Semifinalists were determined by their scores on the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as 11th graders. Only those who scored in the top 1 percent of their state were named semifinalists.

About 1.5 million high school juniors took the PSAT/NMSQT last year.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation was established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program, according to a news release from the nonprofit organization. The scholarships are provided by the organization and about 440 businesses and educational institutions.