Twelve MCPS Students Receive Full-Tuition Posse Scholarships

Twelve MCPS students have been named recipients of full-tuition, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation. The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes.

Nationally, more than 65 colleges and universities offer full-tuition, merit scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams — called Posses — on each campus. These student teams receive professional guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another.

This year, 60 students from the Washington, D.C. region will be awarded over $15 million in full‑tuition leadership scholarships from six partner colleges and universities. On Wednesday, Jan. 7, these students, including the 12 from MCPS, will be honored at a ceremony at the Lincoln Theatre.

The Posse Scholars from MCPS, their high schools and the colleges they will be attending are:

Montgomery Blair High School

Priya Tapia-Pereira, Bucknell University

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Asha Anthony, Lafayette College

Ciella Ndikumana, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Clarksburg High School

Kendra Ndongo, University of Rochester

Albert Einstein High School

Sidi Cisse, Sewanee: The University of the South

Northwest High School

Vidhi Patel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paint Branch High School

Vincent Do, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Seneca Valley High School

Rachel Gordon, University of Rochester

Springbrook High School

Roscoe Hines, Lewis & Clark College

Watkins Mill High School

Hillary Juarez Mendez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wheaton High School

Kithmini Attanayake, Lafayette College

Andres Simon, Lewis & Clark College