MCPS has 189 semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship competition. The semifinalists will compete nationally for scholarships that will be announced in the spring. The competition is sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.
The MCPS semifinalists come from 14 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, James Hubert Blake, Winston Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Northwest, Poolesville, Richard Montgomery, Rockville, Walter Johnson, Wheaton, Walt Whitman and Thomas S. Wootton.
Semifinalists from MCPS were selected from among high school juniors who were top scorers on the 2022 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. About 15,000 semifinalists across the nation are expected to advance to the finalist stage of the competition.
Finalists will be considered for $2,500 National Merit scholarships, plus additional corporate-sponsored and college/university-sponsored scholarships that will be announced later in the school year.
The MCPS semifinalists are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Eli H. Buehler
Lucas Das
Jeffrey L. Olsen
Montgomery Blair
Joshua A. Brown
Michael Z. Chen
Yuna Chun
Andy G. Cui
Jonathan M. Fan
Uriel Y. Frumkin
Nathan Z. Gehl
Solomon M. Gold
Mandy Y. Guo
Daniel H. He
Christopher Q. Jin
Jerry S. Jing
Nicholas P. Khil
Dami Kim
Jacen T. Li
Alexander Liu
Derek P. Mu
Matthias R. Nigmann
Elliott C. Paschane
Joshua O. Piety
River T. Qiu
Angela Y. Shen
Leila S. Simons
Viveka Sinhaa
Rihalya Sivakumar
Matthew M. Slagle
Erik Sofiaj
Jerry H. Song
Sarah A. Stone
Sudhish M. Swain
Reed R. Swearingen
Colby J. Trenor
Evan Z. Wang
Michael X. Wang
Steven Y. Wang
Isak J. Wilson
Angela Y. Wu
Sean Xie
Andy Ying
Sophia L. Zeng
Lipeng Zhu
James Hubert Blake
Conrad N. Blom
Winston Churchill
Raza A. Ahmad
Angie Chen
Sabrina Chou
Pavani Durbhakula
Elise L. Huang
Ha-Yeon Jeon
Bernard L. Jin
Soham G. Jinsi
Jonah I. Kerchner
Jaehee Lee
Simran N. Mattikalli
Lara M. Najjar
Alvia Naqvi
Kevin C. Peng
Henry Shan
Ty Sun
Auva Vaziri
Kevin Xue
Roy K. Yang
Abigail Zhang
Allison Zhang
Clarksburg
Yalini Anbalagan
Zoe H. Tavares
Damascus
William S. Lee
Northwest
Dwarakesh Baraneetharan
Anthony J. Wang
Poolesville
Vaishnavi Banda
Lahari Bandaru
Neel Bhattacharyya
Nathaniel C. Chen
Daisy B. Dastrup
Patrick T. Foley
Anil T. Ghosh
Ronan G. Graff
Leavy Hu
Soumya P. Jailwala
Aditya Lahiri
Amy A. Le
Jasmine Q. Li
Daniel Mathew
Elizabeth C. Newton
Aidan H. Paul
Nora E. Rudmann
Andrew W. Sha
Milo A. Stammers
Emma Y. Zou
Richard Montgomery
Advika Agarwal
Sandral O. Baigal
Maximilian P. Belyantsev
Marissa C. Boucher
Zaida M. Bowsher
Joseph Chen
Daniel Chernyak
Catherine W. Chong
Charlyn C. Chu
Carolyn L. Conner
Anson Cook
Samwit Dangol
Nitya Donthi
Sofia G. Eisenberg
Joshua W. Fan
Joy Y. Jiang
Lucas Kang
Georgia Levine
Lin Han
Daria K. Melikova
Katherine E. Pease
Oluwatomisin Tiam Fotie
Hadassah N. Ucko
Kidus N. Walelign
Angelina Xu
Claire J. Xu
Alexander C. Yeung
Grace J. Young
Michelle Yu
Rockville
Avraham Y. Logan
Maximilian G. Pankowski
Walter Johnson
Charles J. Brenner
Carol Li
Tariq R. Merchant
Mauricio Sanchez Toral
Nathan H. Tang
Colin R. Tierney
Jasmin D. Wu
Allison Xu
Daniela K. Znam
Wheaton
Menelik G. Mekonen
Walt Whitman
Waleed M. Aslam
Daniel Berglund
Diya Bhattacharjee
Pedro B. De Bolle
Tomas L. Forney
Madeline H. Kaltman
Jacob D. Lerman
Timothy J. Lindstrom
Rowan J. Lodato
Brian K. Mason
William P. Mayo
Arjun R. Mohan
Anthony J. Noya
Emily S. Owens
Avery A. Tsao
Samantha F. Walker
Harrison J. Walley
Amy M. Xu
Thomas S. Wootton
Aylin E. Aarhus
Shreyas Bachu
Digonto K. Chatterjee
Rhea Chelar
Anthea L. Chu
Carolyn Fu
Yusuf A. Hasan
Samantha M. Lau
Michael N. Lipari
Jeffery Z. Liu
Arjun N. Ram
Alex Ye
Courtesy of MCPS. Featured photo courtesy of Google Maps.