Fifteen MCPS Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

Fifteen Montgomery County Public Schools 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 2015 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:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

• Max E. Niebylski, computer science, University of Maryland

Montgomery Blair High School

• Yaelle B. Goldschlag, computer science, University of Maryland
• Mariam B. Jiffar, writing, University of Chicago
• Caitlyn A. Singam, medicine, University of Maryland
• Timothy T. Zhou, computer science, University of Maryland
• Camille D. Kirsch, law, University of Chicago

Clarksburg High School

• Aditya V. Kaliappan, computer science, University of Maryland
• Christopher Yue, computer science, University of Maryland

Richard Montgomery High School

• Jacob F. Klosowski, engineering, University of Maryland
• Eric K. Li, industrial engineering, Northwestern University
• Seema E. Snitkovsky, industrial engineering, University of Southern California

Walt Whitman High School

• Elana R. Shaw, medicine, Emory University

Thomas S. Wootton High School

• Paula B. Manis, medicine, University of Maryland
• Eileen C. Stauffer, physics, University of Maryland
• George Wu, business, University of Maryland

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