Westside Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

More than 15,000 students nationwide, representing about half of 1% of each state’s graduating class, have been selected as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. They were the

top scorers on the 1990 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Finalists will be considered for one of 1,800 National Merit Scholarships each worth $2,000.

Beverly Hills

* Beverly Hills High--Kayvaan Ghaseemieh, Eliot A. Jamison, Piotr S. Jewien, Shai S. Shwartz, Josh Swartz, Eric D. Winston, Yas Yadegar, Jennifer L. Yokoyama, Jin H. Yoon, Ali Zarrinpar.

Culver City

* Culver City High--Matthew Frank

Los Angeles

* Brentwood School--Elizabeth C. Ayer, Danny L. Bressler, Jimmy H. Cho, Daniel L. Rogoff and John A. Stieger.

* Ben Franklin High--Stephen Wong

* Alexander Hamilton High--Juliane K. Crump, Anna R. Dale and Kaneez M. Munjee

* Los Angeles High--Arnold Lee and Jason L. Sage

* Loyola High--Robert P. Fielding, Terrence J. Fitzgibbons, John A. Golden, Edward J. Han, James T. Keane, Lindsay R. Kiriakos, Michael O. Palmer and Kenneth J. Weber

* Marlborough School--Caroline L. Bagshaw,

Amber T. Busuttil, Andrea F. Chang, Candrika Chapman, Catherine S. Corman, Angela R. Heile, Sarah E. Jakle, Karen Y. Matsuoka and Amanda L. Schreiber

* Marymount High--Karen S. Lewicki

* University High--Nicklas A. Akers, Allon Amitai, Matthew B. Cohan, Julian P. Hsu and Jeffrey O. Twu

* Venice High--Edward K. Hui and Quyen H. Nguyen

* Windward High--Amber R. Rosin and Erol Tamer

Pacific Palisades

* Pacific Palisades High--Ritu Batra, Danny B. Cardinale, Ari E. Miller, Jeannine Rahimian and Jonathan Romano

Santa Monica

* Crossroads School--Sean E. Purcell, Joseph A. Rosenblum and Ariel I. Traasdahl

* Santa Monica High--Jennifer R. Chao, Edan Dekel, Andrew S. Gersick, David J. Hearn, Sam Heinrich, Philippa Lowe and Alexander Wang