Of the estimated 3 million Americans who graduated high school this year, 51 from Fulton County have been named National Merit Scholars.

They represent “less than one percent of high school seniors across the country,” the school district said this month.

“We are extremely proud of our Fulton students who have achieved excellence and are being recognized,” said Fulton’s Chief Academic Officer Cliff Jones.

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Fulton’s winners fall into three categories:

• Those whose scholarships are funded by 160 corporations after doing well on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test

•Students selected by a committee and get a $2,500 scholarship to any accredited U.S. school of their choice

• Graduates who get between $500 and $2,000 annually from the institutions they attend for up to four years of undergraduate studies

Here are Fulton’s 18 corporate-sponsored award winners:

Alpharetta High School 

Sidhesh Desai

Justin Zandstra

Chattahoochee High School 

Andy Luo

Brandon Wei

Harrison Feng Zhu

Johns Creek High School 

Tyler Bierfreund

Milton High School 

Niraj Jinan

Erin Joyce

Northview High School 

Safa Ahmed

Alina Baiju

Sruti Chitluri

Constantin Claassen

Annie Feng

Evan Ouyang

Priya Rajeev

Richa Sehgal

Jonathan Zheng

Sheri Ann Zhang

Fulton’s 15 committee-selected scholars are:

Alpharetta High School 

Dheeraj Eidnani

Jake Hopkins

Chattahoochee High School 

Marylyn Chen

Emily Guo

Ellie Wong

Johns Creek High School 

Victoria Chen

Sarah McWhirter

Samuel Song

Milton High School 

Mira Mutnick

David Owen Schertz

Northview High School 

Lawrence He

Youngho Lim

Ayush Nene

Nidhi Pai

Livia I. Tibuleac

These are Fulton’s 18 college-sponsored recipients:

Alpharetta High School 

Syed Haider

Matthew Holmquist

Cambridge High School 

Austin Farr

Christopher Fettes

Centennial High School 

Christine Pang

Chattahoochee High School 

Morgan Giles

Andrew Kreitner

Nithyashre Rajasekar

Shyla Tolani

Johns Creek High School 

Rajath Bappanad

William Goldstein

Alexander Hayes

Northview High School 

Kelsey Ahn

Brijal Chokshi

Nithya Mahakala

Amy Tau

Simon Yan

Roswell High School 

Lena Krone

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