One hundred and sixty-six students from 25 Greater Cincinnati high schools have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. Three other semifinalists are home-schooled.

They are among 16,000 students nationwide to advance in the competition for about 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards worth $33 million that will be announced in the spring.

About 90 percent of the semifinalists typically make it as finalists.

More than 1.4 million juniors in nearly 21,000 high schools entered the 2007 National Merit Program by taking the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship qualifying test.

Scholars are chosen, in addition to test scores, on skills, accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

Merit Scholarship winners of 2007 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and ending in July.

Greater Cincinnati semifinalists are:

Anderson: Zach Howe, Tracey K. Mulroney, Audrey M. Sigmund, Joshua V. Watzman

Cincinnati Country Day: Andrew F. Cone, Sean C. Fischer, Leo M. Larson, Colin S. McSwiggen, Zachary G. Sommers

Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy: Stephen G. Havens, Gerrit A. Van den Berg

Colerain: Brad T. Clevenger, Andrea J. Happensack

Elder: Michael P. Murphy, Zachary D. Studt

Finneytown: Nathanael D. Bonnell, Kristen M. Lear

Home schooled: Adam J. Shantz, Henry J. Wilson, Kara A. Wurzelbacher

Indian Hill: Yueyang F. Fei, Gregory C. Harding, Robert W. Lampe, Hope R. Lewis, Liang Li, Aditi Manglik, Michael L. McKay, Priyanka S. Mitra, Nikhil Taneja, Abigail C. Van Uum, Guillaume Vanderschueren

LaSalle: Andrew Kroger, Joseph S. Placke, Benjamin Robers

Mariemont: Katherine C. Donovan, Julia H. Smith, Mary M. Spooner

Archbishop McNicholas: Michael E. McArtor

Moeller: Matthew R. Polakowski, Geoff W. Roberts

Mount Notre Dame: Sarah E. Deutsch, Julia L. Potter

Oak Hills: Laura E. Sanman, Danielle M. Scherer, Kyle T. West

Princeton: Michael M. Barger, Andrew Bonnell, Daniel H. Echt, Brian A. Hooven, Adrian Merritt, Jonathan M. Sass, Kathleen A. Starkweather

Regional Institute Torah of Secular Studies: Aviva E. Gubin

School for Creative and Performing Arts: Lucia M. Pattullo

Seven Hills: Elizabeth F. Balskus, Devlin K. Cole, Laura R. Colman, Garrett Croall, Hannah J. Elkus, Richard J. Fink, Kathryn B. Gephart, Sydney A. Gollobin, Melissa A. King, Sarah E. Leyman, Marianna K. Linz, Michael P. Makris, Alexander M. Mannion, Matt T. Migala, Eric R. Osborne, Robert S. Pasternak, Allen F. Ray, Kyle N. Shen, Sarah E. Wood

St. Ursula Academy: Lauren M. Acton, Christina J. Gilligan, Ashley L. Miller, Laura E. Mucenski, Kathleen T. Puttmann, Krista M. Rath, Shannon K. Ridge, Simone G. Waller

St. Xavier: Brian J. Bolte, Nicholas R. Brunson, Kevin C. Cottingham, Juan P. Farfan, Stephen J. Fleming, Kenneth J. Hofmeister, Harrison S. Lee, Douglas M. Lim, David G. Longshore, Joseph Z. Muething, Daniel A. Niergarth, Shankar G. Ramaswamy, Benjamin A. Serber, Neil F. Spataro, David E. Wilson, Michael Y. Zhang

Summit Country Day: Alexander J. Clark, Ryan A. DeFranco, Jared A. Dunnmon, Christopher I. Lapp, Ritchell R. Martoidjojo, Sibongile I. Sithe, Emily N. Skiba

Sycamore: Robert W. Amster, Chester Chen, Indika D. Ekanayake, Megan A. Feng, Joseph S. Fixler, Jennifer D. French, Zachary S. Goldman, Jinwei Hu, Anthony W. Huron, Chelsea L. Keller, Anna S. Kwa, Kevin Lin, Samuel R. Pollak, John C. Przywara, Samuel S. Snow, Sarah L. Vaz, Taylor P. Williams, April J. Zhang, Catherine D. Zhang, Yijie Zhang

Turpin: Rachel N. Hovde, Molly E. Perkins, Henry C. Phillips, Leah S. Van Lear

Ursuline Academy: Isabella M. Biedenharn, Erin E. Hickey, Rachel E. Lang, Caitlin J. Lynch, Emma Paxton, Amelia S. Uecker, Alison I. Weber, Maria C. Widmann, Laura A. Wooley

Walnut Hills: Lauren M. Brackenbury, Ningjie Chen, Meredith A. Duffy, Jacob D. Durst, Ryan L. Evans, Spencer J. Hattemer, Dani Z. Isaacsohn, Meredith J. Krueger, Chelsea C. Kurtz, Jennifer McCord, Laura E. Pearce, Sally L. Sharrow, Catherine J. Suffern, Namir M. Suidan, Jacob Tracy, Katherine A. Walecka, Lilia F. Walsh, Max T. Wayne, Laura Yuan

Wyoming: Catherine A. Henderson, William G. Kamm, Allison M. McKimm, Susanna D. Mitro, Melanie D. Plageman, Eric L. Ross, Jordan M. Youkilis.

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