26 Montgomery County students have earned college and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Awardees are selected by each sponsoring college or university from a group of finalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. The awards provide recipients between $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The winners, their intended career fields and the sponsoring university or college are:
Montgomery Blair High School
- Svetlana Y. Semenova, bioinformatics, University of Maryland
- Shoshana Braier, physics, University of Maryland
- Joseph A. Zenick, public policy, University of Alabama
- Lillian Zhou, biology, University of Maryland
- Caroline A. Robison, engineering, Tufts University
Winston Churchill High School
- Emily A. Tong, undecided, University of Chicago
Clarksburg High School
- Divahar Sivanesan, computer science, University of Maryland
Richard Montgomery High School
- Justin L. Posner, economics, University of Chicago
- Timothy J. Chu, computer science, University of Maryland
- Helen Gu, computer science, University of Maryland
- Sarah Molot, undecided, University of Maryland
- Sara R. Logsdon, mathematics, University of Georgia
- Annika J. Meng, business, University of Maryland
Northwest High School
- Felix Gu, computer science, University of Maryland
Poolesville High School
- Kandasamy K. Chokkalingam, computer science, University of Maryland
- Christopher Stallard, chemical engineering, University of Minnesota
- Cole P. Johnson, computer science, University of Southern California
Seneca Valley High School
- Ketki A. Shah, cell biology, University of Maryland
Wheaton High School
- Alexander C. Rhoman, medicine, University of Maryland
Walt Whitman High School
- Marc A. Blitz, music/entertainment, Tufts University
- Benjamin M. Waldman, law, University of Chicago
Covenant Life School
- Emily D. Parr, astrophysics, Wet Virginia University
Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, MA)
- Aneesha Mishra (from Bethesda), economics, University of Chicago
Holton-Arms School
- Irene Y. Qi, political science, University of Chicago
National Cathedral School (Washington, DC)
- Lauren J. Ives (from Bethesda), neuroscience, Tufts University
Our Lady of Good Counsel
- Alexandra Close, medicine, University of Maryland
