Twenty MCPS Students Earn College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships
Twenty Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The winners, their sponsoring university or college, and their intended career fields are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Eileen Luo Vanderbilt University Probable career field: Computer Science
Solomon N. Ucko University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Programming
Eric X. Wang University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Science
Jonah M. Witte Rochester Institute of Technology Probable career field: Computer Science
Charles Wajda-Gotwals University of Alabama Probable career field: Law
Winston Churchill High School
Ilayda Dogan University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Science
Jason L. Liu University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Science
Kevin Qi University of Maryland Probable career field: Economics
Nathaniel L. Wu Stony Brook University Probable career field: Dentistry
Richard Montgomery High School
Matthew J. Gu University of Maryland Probable career field: Undecided
Finna Y. Hsu University of Maryland Probable career field: Public Policy
Gwendolyn J. Taylor Fordham University Probable career field: Law
Poolesville High School
Shubham Bhatnagar University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Science
Miranda L. Wang University of Maryland Probable career field: Medicine
Roc G. Yu University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Programming
Sherwood High School
Matan C. Meltzer University of Maryland Probable career field: Engineering
Walt Whitman High School
Benjamin J. Waterman University of Maryland Probable career field: Psychology
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Grace L. Chen University of Montana Probable career field: Wildlife Conservation
Jackson J. Rankin Carleton College Probable career field: Academia
Stacy K. Sun University of Maryland Probable career field: Computer Science