26 Montgomery County Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

26 Montgomery County students have earned college and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Awardees are selected by each sponsoring college or university from a group of finalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. The awards provide recipients between $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

The winners, their intended career fields and the sponsoring university or college are:

Montgomery Blair High School

• Svetlana Y. Semenova, bioinformatics, University of Maryland
• Shoshana Braier, physics, University of Maryland
• Joseph A. Zenick, public policy, University of Alabama
• Lillian Zhou, biology, University of Maryland
• Caroline A. Robison, engineering, Tufts University

Winston Churchill High School

• Emily A. Tong, undecided, University of Chicago

Clarksburg High School

• Divahar Sivanesan, computer science, University of Maryland

Richard Montgomery High School

• Justin L. Posner, economics, University of Chicago
• Timothy J. Chu, computer science, University of Maryland
• Helen Gu, computer science, University of Maryland
• Sarah Molot, undecided, University of Maryland
• Sara R. Logsdon, mathematics, University of Georgia
• Annika J. Meng, business, University of Maryland

Northwest High School

• Felix Gu, computer science, University of Maryland

Poolesville High School

• Kandasamy K. Chokkalingam, computer science, University of Maryland
• Christopher Stallard, chemical engineering, University of Minnesota
• Cole P. Johnson, computer science, University of Southern California

Seneca Valley High School

• Ketki A. Shah, cell biology, University of Maryland

Wheaton High School

• Alexander C. Rhoman, medicine, University of Maryland

Walt Whitman High School

• Marc A. Blitz, music/entertainment, Tufts University
• Benjamin M. Waldman, law, University of Chicago

Covenant Life School

• Emily D. Parr, astrophysics, Wet Virginia University

Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, MA)

• Aneesha Mishra (from Bethesda), economics, University of Chicago

Holton-Arms School

• Irene Y. Qi, political science, University of Chicago

National Cathedral School (Washington, DC)

• Lauren J. Ives (from Bethesda), neuroscience, Tufts University

Our Lady of Good Counsel

• Alexandra Close, medicine, University of Maryland

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