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