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