Seventeen Montgomery County seniors have earned National Merit Scholarships in the second round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).
Awardees were selected from more than 15,000 students nationwide and were among 44 awardees chosen in Maryland. The awards provide recipients with a one-time award of $2,500 for college tuition.
This group of awardees were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who reviewed information submitted by both the students and their high schools. The information reviewed includes academic record, scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), contributions and leadership in school and community activities, an essay written by the student, and a recommendation written by a high school official.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. The scholarships are privately funded by NMSC and are underwritten by more than 340 corporate and college sponsors. Recipients are judged to have the strongest record of accomplishments and the greatest potential for success in college.
The winners of the scholarships, with their intended career fields, are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
- Vince Csajbok, engineering
- Samuel G. Lev, undecided
- Max B. Posner, politics
Montgomery Blair High School
- Areeb Gani, computer science
- Anushka Poddar, medicine
- Kevin Rha, neuroscience
Winston Churchill High School
- Yucheng J. Shao, computer science
Richard Montgomery High School
- Christian G. Testa, engineering
Poolesville High School
- Brandon M. Kim, computer science
- Rohin R. Shah, industrial engineering
Walt Whitman High School
- Alexander G. Campbell, urban/city planning
- Jake A. Hawks, electrical engineering
- Eleanor H. Pugh, foreign service
- Isabel J. Sachs, medicine
- Ethan D. Schenker, law
- Justin Yang, agricultural engineering
Walter Johnson High School
- Silas O. Hultman, marine biology
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