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MICHIGAN
ADRIAN
ADRIAN H. S.
501 Mackey, Weston H.
ALLEN PARK
CABRINI H. S.
303 Orr, Abigail
450 Overbeck, Abigail L.
ANN ARBOR
COMMUNITY H. S.
000 Freiband, Daniel M.
000 Mayman, Calvin W.
GREENHILLS SCHOOL
907 Bagenstos, Harry J.
946 Buchmueller, Adam P.
628 Chigurupati, Ramya S.
000 Farahanchi, Nina
836 Fortson, Evan J.
000 Kanji, Evan D.
999 Liu, Bonnie
160 Navathe, Nikhil R.
160 Sell, Amanda L.
628 Wang, Emily
303 Wu, Alexander J.
457 Yalavarthi, Bharath
HURON H. S.
999 Anupindi, Amritha R.
742 Bai, Tongxu
950 Berofsky, Charles C.
225 Brinley, Claire M.
832 Chen, Joy R.
522 Collins, Mary
454 Connolly, Ana E.
454 Deng, Claire Y.
450 Deng, Laura Y.
999 Giger, Carmen V.
628 Hammond, Emma K.
160 He, Megan
450 Jayendraprasad, Shivani
450 Kalemkerian, John A.
204 Kalemkerian, Peter A.
454 Kulkarni, Reva
999 Kumaran, Anubhav
300 Kwok, Sofia E.
600 Luo, Andy
500 Pan, Celeste T.
999 Rich, Sasha N.
454 Roy, Shalini
629 Shiau, Eileen Y.
870 Stancroff, Ethan S.
465 Tan, Kevin
451 Van Nieuwstadt, Saskia J.
999 Zhu, Jason M.
999 Zou, Christopher W.
PIONEER H. S.
459 Chandrasekhar, Arjun
870 Chen, Sabrina
628 Dahle, Molly I.
628 Giviyan, Isabella A.
999 Hanson, Annika H.
200 Jiang, Evan C.
628 Kumar, Kiran
457 Li, Annie
600 Li, Huiyi
990 Nadeau, Caroline R.
456 Pando Girard, Aldo
843 Rago, Brian P.
907 Ratte, Leo
773 Sun, Siwei
472 Whitelocke, Kailas N.
202 Wu, Nicholas
999 Wu, Zachary M.
628 Zheng, Alan C.
FATHER GABRIEL RICHARD H. S.
999 Bindon, Sarah S.
628 Farjo, Reem M.
907 Putlock, Andrew J.
SKYLINE H. S.
161 Auerbach, Nicole R.
459
Du, Andrew W.
He, Dylan L.
CHARLEVOIX
CHARLEVOIX H. S.
201 Li, Yani 742 Ochs, Grace L.
999
450
Lin, Konnie Y.
Mertz, Andrew O. CHEBOYGAN
450 Mettes, Jared L. CHEBOYGAN AREA H. S.
999 Sabella, James M. 200 Swiderek, Jaclyn T.
999 Sang, Kevin J.
628 Vasan, Natasha CHELSEA
883 Kennedy, Daniel M. Wang, Miranda C.
999 Khain, Daniel
454 CHELSEA H. S.
467 Northrop, Jeremy P.
254 Krivan, Matthew S. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 450 Surel, Josephine L.
843 Ma, Yunfei 466 Agarwal, Arav K.
218 Michele, Justin D.
185 Anil, Sanjana CLARKSTON
450 Seshadri, Neha 185 Bagri, Anuja CLARKSTON H. S.
209 Zheng, Grace Y. 999 Bao, Jessica 000 Anderson, Max T.
470 Barr, Kaitlyn E. 000 Dimmer, Andrew W.
WASHTENAW TECHNICAL 451 Bartlett, Tyler M.
MIDDLE COLLEGE
461 Bolar, Tejas EVEREST COLLEGIATE H. S.
833 McCarthy, Miranda 450 Burch, Alissa M.
300 Czarnecki, Alexander C.
204 Chanduri, Vikas 204 Smith, Kyle R.
AUBURN HILLS 450 Charmley, Aidan
AVONDALE H. S. 450 Chitalia, Neil J. CLINTON TOWNSHIP
450 Feng, Ryan Z. 628 Dwibhashyam, Nikhil S. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
999 Hong, Natalie OF MACOMB
BAD AXE 160 Khan, Nadia H. 450 Folden, Jared T.
BAD AXE H. S. 461 Kim, Kathleen E.
740 Hass, Diana 459 Kumar, Ashvin B. COMMERCE TOWNSHIP
999 Mehrotra, Runik WALLED LAKE CENTRAL H. S.
BATTLE CREEK 600 Mitrofan, Anna R. 628 Ginjupalli, Ramya C.
LAKEVIEW H. S. 303 Mohan, Murali 605 Moore, Cameron R.
946 Ingalls, William S. 166 Morris, Caroline
160 Solipuram, Manisha S.
600 Mostafa, Zeinab
BELLEVILLE 160 Nadella, Akash WALLED LAKE NORTHERN H. S.
BELLEVILLE H. S. 600 Nadella, Mohnish 628 Griemert, Sophia G.
160 Hardy, Nina C. 600 Nguyen, Andrew R.
628 Jeng, Alyssa C. 160 Niu, Andrea
DAVISON
450 Pujara, Ashka A.
DAVISON H. S.
BERKLEY 300 Qalieh, Yaman
200 Mason, Sean S.
BERKLEY H. S. 999 Uzhunnan, Yusuf I.
000 Schildcrout, Andrew T. 999 Wang, Ivan
DE WITT
160 Wewer, Amanda R.
DE WITT H. S.
BESSEMER 450 Wong, Jonathan W.
160 Breukink, Emma
A. D. JOHNSTON H. S. 457 Yerrakalva, Himaneesh R.
200 Matson, Zachary
302 Hooyman, Byron J. 450 Zhou, Jane
DEARBORN
BEVERLY HILLS BROTHER RICE H. S.
628 Carter, Charles
DIVINE CHILD H. S.
DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 450 Ciarelli, Luke M.
454 Beyrand, Melissa A. 303 Raab, Paul C.
999 Chu, Gene M.
999 Desai, Riya S.
DETROIT
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
214 Dukkipati, Reshma BLOOMFIELD HILLS H. S.
550 Gilmer-Hill, Christopher L.
JESUIT H. S.
600 Chengalvala, Venkata S. 450 Chekal, Peter J.
185 Gudapati, Meghana 200 De Smet, Virginie R.
999 Hu, Brian Y. 628 Iqbal, Faraaz I.
999 Kambhatla, Rajeev S. 600 Kumar, Ananyaa
EAST LANSING
EAST LANSING H. S.
450 Lee, Jenna S. 999 Sun, Emily Y.
000 Li, Helena H. 843 Dembski, Cade
907 Varanasi, Srirama
999 Mamidipaka, Anusha G. 303 Dempsey, Evan G.
450 Wang, Emily D.
200 Murakawa, Ryan K. 830 Sheridan, Elijah Q.
200 Zhu, Simona A.
870 Qian, Kevin C.
600 Qian, Lucia B. EDWARDSBURG
BRIGHTON EDWARDSBURG H. S.
200 Rajan, Maya BRIGHTON H. S.
200 Sappington, Quinton 454 Clark, Robert D.
740 Mikat, Cecilia R.
628 Thalla, Rohit K.
450 Xu, Tsz Yeung ESCANABA
200 Zhang, Matthew
BYRON CENTER ESCANABA AREA H. S.
BYRON CENTER H. S.
773 Zhao, Hongxiang 000 Kasetty, Rushil R.
160 Winter, Samuel J. 000 LaFave, Luke M.
WYLIE E. GROVES H. S.
303 Pawlik, Alexandria K. CANTON FARMINGTON
303 Reeves, Harvey M. CANTON H. S. FARMINGTON H. S.
999 Stephenson, Chance A. 214 Flanigan, Connor W. 628 Bhadri, Tarun Sai
455 Huang, Nicholas C. 162 Weigold, Kelli M.
BIG RAPIDS 999 Modi, Neel S.
BIG RAPIDS H. S. 450 Motheram, Himaja S. FARMINGTON HILLS
843 Cosper, Ryan C. 628 Parikh, Ritika A. HARRISON H. S.
166 Rao, Arya S. 175 Vayda, Nelson A. 742 Hopkins, Allison R.
160 Seo, Jein E.
BIRMINGHAM HOMESCHOOL 628 Thamilselvan, Veena
ROEPER SCHOOL 450 Kline, Jeremy B. 209 Zaveri, Mihir M.
000 Wade, Carter E.
PLYMOUTH H. S. MERCY H. S.
SEAHOLM H. S. 303 Agrawal, Rishabh 457 Warner, Anastasia S.
450 Camisa, Jackson E. 833 Ahmed, Syed A.
201 Kummer, Joseph W. 450 Caragay, Emily I. FERNDALE
200 McCardell, Rachel A. 943 Kress, Kathleen P. FERNDALE H. S.
955 O'Rourke, Connor P. 200 Prabhu, Sahana 451 Keener, Jacob B.
520 Wilkins, Grace 204 Sharma, Manasi 454 Meade, Sidney B.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS SALEM H. S. FLAT ROCK
CRANBROOK KINGSWOOD 163 Ajmera, Pujan WOODHAVEN H. S.
SCHOOL 467 Chen, Claudia 303 Robbins, Cole J.
450 Applefield, Justin M. 303 Ma, Grace W.
628 Arida-Moody, Liliana 999 Ning, Annie FLINT
160 Babila, Clarissa May T. 999 Pandya, Nikita S. POWERS CATHOLIC H. S.
999 Chen, Theresa S. 628 Sanghvi, Parshva 162 Glasstetter, Logan M.
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GAYLORD
ST. MARY CATHEDRAL H. S.
451 Schultz, Margaret C.
GRAND BLANC
GRAND BLANC COMMUNITY
SCHOOL
743 Alfaro, Veronica P.
162 Krishnan, Nisha
999 Shapiro, Benjamin Y.
160 Sikora, Veronica M.
GRAND HAVEN
GRAND HAVEN H. S.
600 Merriman, Noah J.
834 Richardson, John
GRAND RAPIDS
CATHOLIC CENTRAL H. S.
522 Felkers, Joseph C.
467 Pauley, Sean P.
712 VanDokkumburg, Jameson R.
CITY H. S.
843 Blackman-Staves, Ian A.
948 Encalada-Stuart, Alex J.
791 Neils, Matthew A.
EAST GRAND RAPIDS H. S.
906 Meyer, Madeline M.
450 Schneider, Leonard A.
628 Vargo, Sara G.
FOREST HILLS CENTRAL H. S.
466 Hadley, Scott C.
520 Pae, Evelyn J.
999 Ross, Jason
999 Wang, Kevin J.
450 Wu, Destiny D.
870 Yi, Irene Z.
FOREST HILLS NORTHERN H. S.
906 Bauman, Brett M.
101 Lu, Maxwell T.
GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN H. S.
451 Houskamp, Louisa
HOMESCHOOL
450 Wassink, Jonathan L.
NORTHVIEW H. S.
870 Gil, Hamin
000 Kieras, Brodie A.
999 Potter, Kayla J.
WEST CATHOLIC H. S.
167 Clements, Noah P.
GRANDVILLE
CALVIN CHRISTIAN H. S.
302 Ebels, Jared T.
999 Timmer, Megan E.
GRANDVILLE H. S.
450 Bos, Thomas J.
628 Sansoterra, Laura E.
GREENVILLE
GREENVILLE H. S.
901 DeWitt, Hunter A.
GROSSE ILE
GROSSE ILE H. S.
450 Stewart, Ian C.
GROSSE POINTE FARMS
GROSSE POINTE SOUTH H. S.
459 Garan, Daniel L.
162 Levine, Hunter
209 Simon, Sebastian
GROSSE POINTE WOODS
GROSSE POINTE NORTH H. S.
628 Dean, Alexandra G.
300 Rakozy, Maximilian M.
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
000 Diggs, Alexandra A.
000 Ondersma, Annelies K.
HAMTRAMCK ADLAI E. STEVENSON H. S.
HAMTRAMCK H. S. 999 Choma, Joseph A.
628 Akhtar, Ihsan U. 455 Dunne, Kevin W.
900 Silvio, Mary M.
HARBOR BEACH
HARBOR BEACH COMMUNITY H. S. MACOMB
254 Stein, Allison C. DAKOTA H. S.
160 Gloede, Donald P.
HARTLAND
HARTLAND H. S. MARINE CITY
999 Smith, Emma J. CARDINAL MOONEY
CATHOLIC H. S.
HASLETT 999 Nasr, Hani A.
HASLETT H. S.
450 Marks, Juliana F. MARQUETTE
461 Tuckey, Benjamin M. MARQUETTE H. S.
629 Banitt, Eric J.
HIGHLAND
MILFORD H. S. MATTAWAN
628 Lewis, Jack G. MATTAWAN H. S.
999 Benscoter, Seth P.
HILLSDALE
HILLSDALE ACADEMY MC BAIN
450 Culjak, Caroline E. MC BAIN H. S.
303 McLean, Reginald B.
HOLLAND
BLACK RIVER H. S. MIDLAND
457 Karyamapudi, Karthik HERBERT HENRY DOW H. S.
901 Donahue, Duncan M.
WEST OTTAWA H. S. 467 Foote, Lucas L.
600 Aquino, Dominic 999 Jackson, Hannah H.
161 Ganzi, Stephanie N. 300 Kline, Jessica R.
904 Gruenler, Samuel O. 999 Kollig, Faye E.
450 Middha, Aditya J.
600 Ky, Britney
999 Sierra, Isaac S. 300 Park, Joseph J.
454 Weldy, Aaron J.
HOLLY 303 Yan, Dachuan
HOLLY H. S. 600 Zhong, Edward F.
162 Zhu, Brandon
950 Haubert, Ian J.
HOPKINS MIDLAND H. S.
451 Bruce, Ethan B.
HOMESCHOOL
300 Baas, Zachary 904 James, Spencer
HOUGHTON MILAN
HOUGHTON H. S. MILAN H. S.
451 Woejmer, Julia
451 Groeneveld, Daniel C.
250 Sanders, Autumn E.
MOUNT PLEASANT
HOWELL BEAL CITY H. S.
950 Steffke, Madeline M.
HOWELL H. S.
450 Stevenson, Miles L.
MOUNT PLEASANT H. S.
742 Fu, Cheng-Hao
HUDSONVILLE
999 Geisthardt, Haylee M.
HUDSONVILLE H. S.
907 Beery, Nicholas
SACRED HEART ACADEMY H. S.
166 Armah, Henry B.
INTERLOCHEN
INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY
NILES
522 Blackburn, Margaret
NILES H. S.
457 Janowski, Alec B.
KALAMAZOO
KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN H. S.
450 Miedema, Kristopher M. NORTHVILLE
NORTHVILLE H. S.
451 Abraham, Jacob
KENTWOOD
EAST KENTWOOD H. S. 200 Adler, Madeline H.
166 Dykhouse, Gabrielle 628 Cui, Ye Ming
171 Pinchak, Emma C. 999 Czarnecki, Haleigh E.
833 Strabel, Brady P. 160 Dandamudi, Priya
451 Fortman, Casey J.
171 Glaser, Derek M.
KINGSFORD
450 Holmes, Rachel A.
KINGSFORD H. S.
451 Huang, James
200 Sturm, Joseph S.
628 Iqal, Justin N.
185 Jadhav, Sohan
LAKE ODESSA 303 Jain, Raghav
LAKEWOOD H. S. 628 Kannikeswaran, Sanjana P.
628 Tennant, Samuel
000 Karanth, Pavana
000 Khandelwal, Adit
LAKE ORION 628 Kulkarni, Soumya S.
LAKE ORION H. S. 204 Lee, Angela
160 Collins, Michaela E. 204 Mankuzhy, Neil
600 Masse, Lauren H.
LIVONIA 200 Misra, Roshni
WINSTON CHURCHILL H. S. 300 Patel, Joseph S.
170 Christopherson, Rachel C. 627 Patel, Pujan A.
166 Durnell, Mackenzie 450 Steinig, Alexander D.
451 Gardner, William D. 502 Tian, Diane
451 Goutman, Scott E. 170 Tolia, Sahil K.
467 Ohtake, Michael 628 Varre, Ananya
160 Raul, Antara V. 600 Vedhapudi, Revanth
202 Welch, Logan 209 Vepamakula, Himansu R.
302 Yan, Kevin
LADYWOOD H. S. 218 Yang, Katherine
454 Austin, Caroline R. 843 Ying, Michael Y.
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NOVI
DETROIT CATHOLIC
CENTRAL H. S.
454 Mondrusov, Daniel L.
200 O'Brien, Keenan P.
628 Smith, Jacob A.
NOVI H. S.
454 Annamalai, Arun S.
200 Bhadange, Mihir R.
628 Bhattacharya, Subarna
160 Boivin, Lindsey
303 Chaturvedi, Deeya
303 Chen, Robert E.
209 Chitta, Aditya
000 Fozdar, Shaily J.
600 Gulati, Mehak
000 Huang, Zijin
450 Joshi, Jyotsna
457 Liang, Selinah Y.
999 Ling, Audrey L.
302 Macek, Joseph M.
628 Mehmood, Yasir
740 Mudel, Gabriel A.
000 Raman, Arjun G.
209 Ravi, Aditya
160 Renton, Amber E.
999 Rushton, Kiran
628 Sathe, Maithelee
461 Shin, Junwon
457 Singh, Rishan
454 Singh, Sanidhya
999 Singh, Sarav Noor
999 Song, David J.
204 Subrahmanyam, Prianka M.
302 Tiwary, Ronit
773 Vangipuram, Ashwin
628 Veluru, Nikith
627 Wang, Joyful L.
990 Weng, Maxwell L.
999 Wu, James
200 Xie, Katherine
204 Xu, Robert B.
217 Yadati, Venkata N.
999 Ying, Alice C.
200 Yuan, Alexander H.
000 Zhang, Steven
OKEMOS
OKEMOS H. S.
303 Burba, Allyson
791 Burns, Noah E.
450 Chandra, Anjini
999 Hashsham, Abdullah S.
830 Kobe, Bryce L.
999 McKinley, Paul
300 Murembya, Saano E.
160 Murthy, Anushka
830 Patke, Ishan S.
300 Rathod, Manav
450 Schnepf, Adam W.
200 Sun, Mingxuan
PETOSKEY
PETOSKEY H. S.
450 Paquette, David
PONTIAC
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
454 Heming, Olivia P.
902 Higgins, Sean P.
630 Keller, Gretel A.
466 Mukherji, Malini
PORTAGE
PORTAGE CENTRAL H. S.
301 Botfield, Stuart
628 Chalasani, Sanjna
628 Jin, Liya J.
ROCHESTER HILLS
ROCHESTER ADAMS H. S.
605 Desai, Arya S.
999 Ding, Cathy
204 Dong, Wendy J.
628 Filbin, John D.
303 Guest, Scott J.
451 Orzach, Shelli
600 Parimi, Sanjana K.
162 Pinchi, Prateeksunder C.
999 Sun, Crystal Y.
451 Tang, Edward
162 Terryn, Kyle S.
450 Wattai, Michael J.
833 Wei, Tyler K.
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ROCHESTER H. S.
185 Ansari, Afrah
200 Lee, Katherine M.
628 Ramaseshan, Anirudhan
STONEY CREEK H. S.
628 Bahl, Aastha
454 Joshi, Shachi S.
202 Kamat, Rohan
457 Pae, Jae Un
628 Raghavan, Asha
628 Tigue, Megan E.
628 Vacante, Amelia R.
ROCKFORD
HOMESCHOOL
740 McFarlane, Micah
ROCKFORD H. S.
169 Burgess, Samual J.
ROYAL OAK
ROYAL OAK H. S.
900 Sharpe, Collin G.
SAGINAW
MICHIGAN LUTHERAN SEMINARY
906 Kieta, Joseph A.
SAGINAW ARTS AND
SCIENCES ACADEMY
168 Rajoulh, Celine
843 Syed, Safi-ur-Rahman M.
302 Yin, Kevin
VALLEY LUTHERAN H. S.
550 Behnke, Danielle L.
SALINE
SALINE H. S.
999 Chen, Andrew C.
450 Cook, Joshua P.
843 Toor, Jack D.
WASHTENAW CHRISTIAN
ACADEMY
457 Smith, Thomas E.
SHELBY TOWNSHIP
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER H. S.
999 Baumgartner, Breanne A.
185 Olson, Anna R.
121 Proffitt, Kaitlyn M.
SOUTH LYON
HOMESCHOOL
600 Huang, Philip C.
SOUTH LYON H. S.
161 Schams, Alyssa I.
833 Weeks, Kellen
SPRING LAKE
SPRING LAKE H. S.
628 Burke, Connor G.
162 Peterson, Nathan J.
ST. CLAIR
ST. CLAIR H. S.
185 Tenniswood, Emily C.
ST. JOSEPH
ST. JOSEPH H. S.
467 Leany, Heather A.
STERLING HEIGHTS
ADLAI E. STEVENSON H. S.
209 Afify, Farah M.
451 Capozello, Daniel A.
999 Soundararajan, Praveen
894 Weiker, Annastasia R.
UTICA ACADEMY FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
999 Carrigan, Moira E.
STURGIS
STURGIS H. S.
453 Pattison, Ethan R.
451 Pattison, Jesse E.
TAWAS CITY WASHTENAW
TAWAS AREA H. S. INTERNATIONAL H. S.
950 Ferguson, Douglas A. 175 Ling, Carol
467 Roberts, Johnathan P.
TRAVERSE CITY 160 Tang, Elanor S.
TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL H. S. 628 Tarar, Muhammad D.
185 Archibald, Rayna K.
303 Fox, Abigail S. ZEELAND
451 Mello, Tess J. ZEELAND WEST H. S.
454 Puckett, Abigail E. 740 LaPorte, Philip C.
167 Smith, Elliott T.
TRAVERSE CITY
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
999 Weber, Braden L.
TROY
ATHENS H. S.
600 Desai, Manasi A.
836 Lan, Austin Y.
204 Wang, Angela
TROY H. S.
160 Avutapalli, Brinda
999 Bajji, Venkatesh
904 Barlow, Joseph M.
170 Cai, Michelle M.
900 Chakraborty, Tuhin
999 Chen, Annie
627 Chinoy, Afriti F.
742 Clancy, Liam H.
455 Dannug, Emmanuel J.
451 Diao, Allen X.
303 Dogra, Sahil
457 Dutta, Raul
450 Ge, James
161 Gu, Kathleen
999 Gu, Lyndsey
185 Hao, Claire M.
999 Jiang, Runxuan
467 Kim, Yunsoo
450 Li, James
907 Lin, Michael S.
999 Liu, Spencer
904 Menon, Kiran
999 Mu, Robert
836 Prabhu, Shankar
160 Sanjay, Adithya
200 Wang, Muyang
300 Worrel, Megan E.
600 Xia, Elise
164 Xu, Ashley
000 Yang, Zeyu
607 Zhang, Justin J.
204 Zheng, Daniel B.
950 Zhou, William
999 Zou, Lisa R.
UBLY
UBLY H. S.
600 Knoblock, Macy L.
UTICA
UTICA H. S.
457 Kent, Paul M.
950 Keta, Mary I.
WARREN
MACOMB MATHEMATICS SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY CENTER
000 Leckrone, Jonathon H.
WASHINGTON
HOMESCHOOL
450 Tyshka, Alexander N.
WEST BLOOMFIELD
WEST BLOOMFIELD H. S.
303 Hwa, Jensen P.
WHITE LAKE
LAKELAND H. S.
209 Person, Matthew J.
YPSILANTI
ARBOR PREPARATORY H. S.
120 Chiao, Vivian
EARLY COLLEGE ALLIANCE AT
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
833 Lang, Jay T.
454 Parrish, Hannah J.
HOMESCHOOL
467 Boyer, Aidan G.