Thirteen MCPS Students Earn College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships

An additional thirteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the final round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

Each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

MCPS winners of the college-sponsored scholarships, their intended field of study and sponsors are:

Walter Johnson High School

Charles J. Brenner
Northeastern University  
Probable career field: Mathematics

Mauricio Sanchez Toral
Texas Tech University
Probable career field: Architecture

Walt Whitman High School

Madeline H. Kaltman
Probable career field: Biomedical engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Poolesville High School

Amy A. Le
Northeastern University 
Probable career field: Medicine

Nathaniel C. Chen
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Aerospace engineering

Andrew W. Sha
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Accounting

Montgomery Blair High School

Sarah A. Stone 
Purdue University
Probable career field: Mathematics

Mandy Y. Guo
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Medicine

Elliott C. Paschane
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Economics

Winston Churchill High School 

Jonah I. Kerchner
Case Western Reserve University
Probable career field: Aerospace engineering

Ty T. Sun
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer science

Richard Montgomery High School 

Han Lin
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer engineering

Hadassah N. Ucko
Boston University
Probable career field: Statistics