22 MCPS Students Receive National Merit Scholarships
Twenty-two MCPS students from five high schools have been awarded National Merit scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).
These students are among 50 Maryland high school seniors selected from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists to receive a one-time award of $2,500 for post-secondary education.
The NMSC was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. The majority of scholarships are underwritten by about 300 independent corporate and college sponsors.
The 2026 MCPS scholarship recipients, their schools and probable career fields are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
George Sokol, Medicine
Montgomery Blair High School
Ethan Hua, Mechanical Engineering
Jesse Jing, Biophysics
Doris Cheng Wang, Applied Mathematics
Shaun Wang, Engineering
Evan Zhang, Academia
Winston Churchill High School
Daniel Phu, Biology
Albert Einstein High School
Noa Z. Mergi, Biomedical Engineering
Walter Johnson High School
Vijay S. Kannan, Economics
Roy Y. Rozin, Computer Engineering
Poolesville High School
Chloe E. Chang, International Relations
Abraham K. Klemek, Economics
Alyssa J. Yu, Applied Mathematics
Richard Montgomery High School
Grace Fan Cao, Undecided
Rohit K. Chennamsetti, Computer Science
Katherine Zijia Diao, Neuroscience
Sophia Menglu Li, Applied Mathematics
Serena Wang, Undecided
Wheaton High School
Varun Srinivasan, Medicine
Walt Whitman High School
Olivia X. Zhao, Medicine
Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School
Kyle Li, Economics
Vikram Sunil C. Reddy, Medicine