An additional thirteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the final round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).
Each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
MCPS winners of the college-sponsored scholarships, their intended field of study and sponsors are:
• Walter Johnson High School
Charles J. Brenner
Northeastern University
Probable career field: Mathematics
Mauricio Sanchez Toral
Texas Tech University
Probable career field: Architecture
• Walt Whitman High School
Madeline H. Kaltman
Probable career field: Biomedical engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Poolesville High School
Amy A. Le
Northeastern University
Probable career field: Medicine
Nathaniel C. Chen
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Aerospace engineering
Andrew W. Sha
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Accounting
• Montgomery Blair High School
Sarah A. Stone
Purdue University
Probable career field: Mathematics
Mandy Y. Guo
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Medicine
Elliott C. Paschane
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Economics
• Winston Churchill High School
Jonah I. Kerchner
Case Western Reserve University
Probable career field: Aerospace engineering
Ty T. Sun
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer science
• Richard Montgomery High School
Han Lin
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer engineering
Hadassah N. Ucko
Boston University
Probable career field: Statistics
Photo courtesy University of Maryland