Six Students Receive National Merit College-Sponsored Scholarship

Six MCPS students have been awarded National Merit college-sponsored scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) bringing the total number of MCPS Merit scholars up to 40 so far this year. 

Sponsoring colleges or universities select scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to 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.

The NMSC was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and to encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. This year’s recipients of National Merit college-sponsored scholarships are:

Montgomery Blair High School

Michael R. Zenick, University of Alabama

Winston Churchill High School

Tyler X. Song, University of Maryland

Walter Johnson High School

Eleanor E. Miller, Macalester College

Richard Montgomery High School

David Sy, University of Maryland

Poolesville High School

Swarnabh S. Maharjan, University of Texas at Dallas

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Kevin Luo, Vanderbilt University