Nine Montgomery County students in the class 0f 2023 have earned college and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest and final 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 2023 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 County Public School Scholars
Montgomery Blair
- Kevin G. Zhang, statistics, University of Maryland
- Elizabeth R. Yuan, computer science, University of Maryland
Winston Churchill
- Nathan X. Li, computer science, University of Maryland
Walter Johnson
- Daniel M. Avillo, history, Carleton College
- Joseph Kim, neuroscience, University of Maryland
- Emily E. Paranzino, neuroscience, University of Maryland
- Ella Tzeng, education, Pomona College
Poolesville
- Anya Sophie Olson, conservation, University of Maryland
Private School Scholars
Holton-Arms School
- Maya Naomi Lall, medicine, Bowdoin College
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