Ninety high school seniors from Howard County are among the 16,000 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists announced Sept. 15.

The students were chosen based on their test scores on the PSAT, which they took as juniors in high school. The nationwide number of semifinalists, about 16,000, represents less than 1% of high school seniors nationwide.

The number of semifinalists in each state is chosen based on the state’s percentage of the total number of graduating seniors nationally.

About 15,000 of the semifinalists will go on to become finalists and about half will be awarded a National Merit Scholarship next spring. The scholarship awards total about $30 million.

The list of finalists will be released in February, and the scholarship winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and ending in July.

Here are the semifinalists from Howard County:

Atholton High School

Thomas J. Baek

Luke M. Edwards

Nilo Rivera

Nicholas A. Taber

Stephanie Wang

Centennial High School

Iman A. Ali

Brandon Du

Audrey M. Hasson

Fredrick T. Jorgensen

Ellen M. Landrum

Ethan Q. Li

Tyler W. Lin

Maria C. Liu

Adhithyaa Nair

Ally E. Paik

David W. Pang

Annabel J. Rose

Danylo Voloshyn

Lindsay M. White

Julia J. Ye

Glenelg High School

Bailey E. Allmon

Megan E. Ball

Lauren N. Higgins

Amy J. Hwang

Susan M. Shollenberger

Abhishikta Srigiriraju

Hammond High School

Noah S. Hoffman

Howard High School

Peter J. Banyas

Brianna M. Duffy

Vasudev K. Joshi

Jiho Lee

Olivia G. Miller

Adelina S. Yoon

Marriotts Ridge High School

Isabelle G. Bryden

Anna F. Han

Anderson Hu

Leslie Lin

Grace Z. Liu

Kevin J. Liu

Manasvi R. Mamilla

Havish R. Netla

Anna C. Ottman

Jacqueline E. Palmer

Manasvini Parimi

Angela J. Tan

Corey Li Wang

Jeffrey Y. Yang

Mt. Hebron High School

Trisha Anand

Emily R. Davies

Vincent S. Jung

Saniya Mahate

Liam J. McCaffrey

Advaitha Midde

Pragat Patel

Connor S. Rose

David Zheng

Reservoir High School

Joshua Cai

Camille A. Williams

River Hill High School

Aiai A. Calmer

David H. Chen

Trinity Cheng

Mackenzie M. Cooper

Anthony Y. Fei

Nicholas R. Goturi

Anna M. Grodsky

Daniel Z. He

Simon S. Hu

Krishna C. Jaladanki

Grace Jiang

Shreya S. Katuri

Michelle J. Lei

Sophia J. Li

Anna Q. Liu

Kevin S. Liu

Araoluwa G. Omitowoju

Shivum Pandove

Tisha A. Patel

Andrew M. Pavlosky

Riya Seth

Dahlia N. Shafiq

Jeffery S. Tian

Sharvari V. Tirodkar

Dhriti Vadlakonda

Emily Y. Wang

Cynthia T. Xi

Vivian Yao

Rishi M. Zarkar

Victoria W. Zhang

Wilde Lake High School

Corin Y. Cho

Erin M. Hopper