The National Merit Scholarship Corp. recently announced its final round of students who have been named National Merit Scholars. In addition to the prestigious National Merit Scholar distinction, these 2014 graduates earned National Merit scholarships from participating colleges.

Students receiving a college-sponsored Merit Scholarship are: Lisette Corbin, Mili Raina, and Ryan W. Shea, Alpharetta High School; Christopher G. Misenheimer and Monisha Narayanan, Chattahoochee High School; Monica E. Bhatia and Nicholas S. Summers, Centennial High School; Shamita Nagalla, Samuel C. Sheriff, and Olivia Z. Song, Johns Creek High School; Olivia B. Sachs and Elizabeth F. Wilkes, North Springs Charter High School; Sophia Chen, Victoria M. Hiten, Anna L. Li, Namita E. Mathew, Sarika Sachdeva, Lindsey Whitesides, and Gaeun Wie, Northview High School; and Carlyn R. Gilbert and Tyler M. Whitt, Roswell High School.

This announcement brings Fultons total to 43 National Merit Scholars in the 2014 competition. Earlier in the school year, eight students also were named National Achievement Scholars, a similar academic competition hosted by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. for African-American high school students.

All of the students were first identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. They had a record of high academic performance, were endorsed and recommended by their school principal, and had earned high SAT scores confirming their earlier qualifying test performance.