Seven Montgomery County students have received college and university-sponsored scholarships in this round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced June 4.
Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among finalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The seven college-sponsored recipients represent nearly half of Maryland’s 17 scholarship winners.
Earlier this year, it was announced that 15 county students earned corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarshp, and 26 county students earned $2,500 National Merit Scholarships.
The seven recipients of the college-sponsored scholarships, their intended career field, and sponsoring university or college are:
Maret School, Washington, D.C.
- Isabel Lustbader, Bowdoin College, social science
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring
- Michael R. Zenick, University of Alabama, mechanical engineering
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville
- David Sy, University of Maryland, academia
Poolesville High School
- Swarnabh S. Maharjan, University of Texas at Dallas, biology
Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda
- Eleanor E. Miller, Macalester College, undecided
Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School, Rockville
- Kevin Luo, Vanderbilt University, engineering
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac
- Tyler X. Song, University of Maryland, computer engineering
