26 Katy ISD Graduates Earn 2025 National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarships
Twenty-six students from Katy Independent School District have been named 2025 College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship winners by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), a distinction awarded to some of the top high school graduates in the country.
These students are among just 3,000 nationwide to receive the highly competitive scholarship, selected from a field of 16,000 Finalists. Their awards are funded by universities, recognizing a blend of academic achievement, extracurricular involvement, leadership, and standardized test scores.
“Congratulations to these graduates for this auspicious recognition,” said Ronnie Edwards, assistant superintendent for school leadership and support in Katy ISD. “It is truly an honor to be named a National Merit scholarship winner.”
A National Process, Years in the Making
The path to this scholarship began in 2023, when more than 1.3 million high school juniors took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). The highest-scoring students in each state advanced as Semifinalists. From there, a rigorous review process led to Finalist status and ultimately, selection by sponsoring universities.
Over the past three years, more than 250 Katy ISD students have earned Semifinalist designation, with this year’s 26 scholarship recipients representing a cross-section of the district’s high schools.
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2025 Katy ISD College-Sponsored National Merit Scholars
Below is a list of this year’s scholarship recipients, along with the universities that selected them:
Cinco Ranch High School
- Ian Kang – Purdue University
- Dorothy Li – Texas A&M University
- Rohan Pandit – Texas A&M University
- Di Wu – Texas A&M University
Jordan High School
- Tristan Wardak – Texas A&M University
- Katy High School
- Kyla Bruns – Trinity University
Seven Lakes High School
- Mohamed-Amin Abdalla – Texas A&M University
- Aditya Ayyappan – Texas A&M University
- Sania Chauhan – Texas A&M University
- Eddy Chen – Texas A&M University
- Enze Chen – Purdue University
- Trisha Das – University of Texas at Dallas
- Tejas Murali – Texas A&M University
- Luc-Andre Prieur du Perray – University of Tulsa
- Samaira Srivastva – University of Texas at Dallas
- Helene Su – Texas A&M University
- Jonathan Sutjandra – Purdue University
Taylor High School
- Daniel Jiang – Texas A&M University
- Dylan McCormick – Fordham University
- Inigo Tucker – University of Texas at Dallas
Tompkins High School
- Luisa Amir – Texas A&M University
- Sahus Gupta – Texas A&M University
- Alexander Knight – Texas A&M University
- Alvin Mathew – Texas A&M University
- Pratyush Prakash – Texas A&M University
- Roger Ramos-Morales – Texas A&M University
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These students will join a wide range of universities across the country, with Texas A&M University emerging as the most frequent sponsor among Katy ISD recipients. Other institutions represented include Purdue University, University of Texas at Dallas, Trinity University, Fordham University, and the University of Tulsa.
As these graduates take their next academic steps, their accomplishments reflect years of effort and dedication within a national context of excellence.
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Tiffany Krenek has been on the My Neighborhood News team since August 2021. She is passionate about curating and sharing content that enriches the lives of our readers in a personal, meaningful way. A loving mother and wife, Tiffany and her family live in the West Houston/Cypress region.
