Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has 157 semifinalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship competition. The semifinalists will compete nationally for scholarships that will be announced in the spring. The competition is sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The MCPS semifinalists come from 15 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman, Paint Branch, Clarksburg, Northwest, Seneca Valley, Poolesville, Winston Churchill, Col. Zadok Magruder, Richard Montgomery, Rockville, Thomas S. Wootton, Montgomery Blair and Wheaton. The semifinalists are:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase

• Claire A. Edmonds
• Eleanor M. Fairbanks
• Sofia G. Fontana
• Maya L. Kessner
• Frances D. Rosen
• Hailey Z. Sobel
• Sarah S. Sparling
• John V. Stocker
• Teagen E. Tsui-Rosen

Montgomery Blair

• Aviva R. Bechky   
• Ezra M. Bernstein  
• Shoshana Braier  
• Oscar M. Brodkin 
• Michael C. Chu 
• Ethan S. Coffin
• Noah B. Elazar
• Anna L. Fisher Lopez
• Nicole G. Frank
• Daniel Y. Ge
• Fiona D. Harrington
• Arthur A. Hu
• Bumjin Joo
• Ozan K. Kayaalp
• Dheeraj U. Keshav
• Mark G. Kokiyelov
• Jason E. Liu
• Raymond Luo
• Daniel G. Monroe
• Rajit Mukhopadhyay
• Ethan J. Oh
• Eli S. Qian
• Timothy C. Qian
• Caroline A. Robison
• Svetlana Y. Semenova
• Ishaan A. Shrestha
• Nora E. Slott
• Esther Tang
• Christopher L. Tong
• Nicole E. Tran
• Shariar Vaez-Ghaemi
• Marc S. Wagger
• Charlotte S. Wallsten
• Evan Z. Wang
• Bracklinn N. Williams
• Colin W. Wu
• Gabriel D. Wu
• Chad K. Yu
• Joseph A. Zenick
• Lillian Zhou

Winston Churchill

• Emily Cao
• Vivian Dong
• Julie Y. Fan
• Seung Hyun Jeong
• Andy Q. Jiang
• Brian Q. Ju
• Daniel G. Liu
• Jeffrey J. Luo
• Tsach C. Mackey
• Al Nie
• Noah P. Schiff
• Emily A. Tong
• Nathan Varner
• Madeline G. Vinal
• Evan K. Xu

Clarksburg

• Divahar Sivanesan

Col. Zadok Magruder

• Benjamin T. Kwiatkowski

Northwest

• Felix Gu

Paint Branch

• Mary E. Shawhan

Poolesville

• Robert S. Bao
• Smrithi S. Chakravarthyy
• Alexander Chen
• Kandasamy K. Chokkalingam
• Aidan R. Goettsch
• Joshua Hou
• Cole P. Johnson
• Jane Liu
• Jason Liu
• Srisrujan Penikelapati
• Angelina C. Sachar
• Ronoy Sarkar
• Shreyas R. Soma
• Christopher E. Stallard
• Sonia V. Stan
• Sabrina I. Su
• Nathan Tang
• Jonathan X. Ye
• Gene G. Yu
• Ian Yu

Richard Montgomery

• Daniel Chen
• Timothy J. Chu
• Jaewoo Chung
• Fang Du
• Helen Gu
• Corrine B. Hanway
• Jason Hu
• Kevin Z. Huang
• Joseph G. Jasperse
• Alexander Karbowski
• Jade D. LeSchack
• Kyle Liao
• Sara R. Logsdon
• Naomi K. Louie
• Chris H. Ma
• Mary Z. Ma
• Sabrina J. Mei
• Annika J. Meng
• Sarah Molot
• Namya Nanda
• Justin L. Posner
• Jerry Shen
• Lucy Shen
• Danesh Sivakumar
• Michael B. Sun
• Grace J. Tang
• Amy Zhai
• Eileen T. Zhang

Rockville

• Lucas M. Franke
• Jaxon D Lee

Seneca Valley

• Ketki A. Shah

Walter Johnson

• Evan L. Calhoun
• Ella M. Gaul
• Beri S. Gershwind
• Linnea C. Hultman
• Sachin V. Kammula
• Moinak Nath

Wheaton

• Rebecca J. Baxter
• Tsegazeab N. Beteselassie
• Yeabsira R. Moges
• Alexander C. Rhoman

Walt Whitman

• Rhea Bhattacharjee
• Marc A. Blitz
• Kaya Ginsky
• Emily M. London
• Susan B. Rodgers
• Rachel E. Scissors
• Jacob M. Spector
• Benjamin M. Waldman
• Kushan S. Weerakoon

Thomas S. Wootton

• Michael J. Chen
• Andrei I. Davydov
• Annie L. Dong
• Amy X. He
• Ellie K. Helgeson
• Emma E. Helgeson
• Daniel S. Hwang
• Catherine S. LeDoux
• Bojun Li
• Grace L. Li
• Jennifer J. Li
• Nastaran Moghimi
• Pranav Ramesh
• Ethan W. Sawyer
• Jenna M. Shi
• Jessica Y. Shi
• Katherine J. Sohn
• Aidan B. Wilbur
• James J. Zou