Thirty CHCCS seniors have been named 2012 National Merit Finalists. Finalists from Carrboro High School are: Laura Hamon, Jason Ilieve, Michael Jushchuk, Hadley Reid and Hannah Schwarz. Finalists from Chapel Hill High School are: Zaynah Alam, Eric Anderson, Olivia Dang, Anya Josephs, Kristen Laubscher, Daphne Liu, Abby Muller, Esther Rolf, Melody Song, Katherine Stafford, Jacob Stern, Adam Wang and Jean Ye. Finalists from East Chapel Hill High School are: Shreya Das, Shuo Deng, Karishma Desai, Katherine Gunn, William Holub-Moorman, Ching-Ying Lin, Daniel Liu, Benjamin Marks, Sophie To, Hannah Weaver, Benjamin Zalutsky and Li Zhang.