26 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 faculty member.
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 underwritten by more than 280 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
- Quinn C. Parker, neurosurgery
Montgomery Blair High School
- Asher Elias Anantham, film production
- Nikhita Bhatt, law
- Evelyn Goldin, medicine
- Matthew Nam, engineering
- Shriyan Reyya, computer science
- Jason Youm, physics
- Stephen Zhang, computer science
Poolesville High School
- Alexander J. Aniya, biomedicine
- Jaden E. Hou, computer engineering
- Yash S. Pandit, engineering
- Shreyas Sasanakoti, engineering
- Karthik S. Vedula, computer science
- Veronica Wang, electrical engineering
- Annie Wanting Zhao, electrical engineering
Richard Montgomery High School
- Sujit Hegde, molecular biology
- Yash G. Maniar, finance
- Zidane Sheng, public health
- Caroline Zhou, finance
Thomas Wootton High School
- Kent Zhang, engineering
Private High Schools
Holton-Arms School
- Sarah Dicker, engineering
- Grace Ding, computer science
- Sonia Husain, economics
Landon School
- Matthew S. Guo, medicine
Sidwell Friends School
- Tara P. Prakash, entrepreneurship
St. Albans School
- Sebastian Hume, environmental science
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