Twenty Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2023 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 winners, their sponsoring university or college, and their intended career fields are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Eileen Luo
Vanderbilt University
Probable career field: Computer Science
Solomon N. Ucko
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Programming
Eric X. Wang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science
Jonah M. Witte
Rochester Institute of Technology
Probable career field: Computer Science
Charles Wajda-Gotwals
University of Alabama
Probable career field: Law
Winston Churchill High School
Ilayda Dogan
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science
Jason L. Liu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science
Kevin Qi
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Economics
Nathaniel L. Wu
Stony Brook University
Probable career field: Dentistry
Richard Montgomery High School
Matthew J. Gu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Undecided
Finna Y. Hsu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Public Policy
Gwendolyn J. Taylor
Fordham University
Probable career field: Law
Poolesville High School
Shubham Bhatnagar
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science
Miranda L. Wang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Medicine
Roc G. Yu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Programming
Sherwood High School
Matan C. Meltzer
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Engineering
Walt Whitman High School
Benjamin J. Waterman
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Psychology
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Grace L. Chen
University of Montana
Probable career field: Wildlife Conservation
Jackson J. Rankin
Carleton College
Probable career field: Academia
Stacy K. Sun
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science
Courtesy of MCPS
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