Note: This press release is being resent with the corrected list of semifinalists. 

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has 138 semifinalists in the 2020 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 13 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walter Johnson, Clarksburg, Northwest, Poolesville, Winston Churchill, Richard Montgomery, Rockville, Thomas S. Wootton, Sherwood, Montgomery Blair, Wheaton and Walt Whitman. The semifinalists are:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase

Reed H. Barmada

Molly A. Busis

Caroline S. Hallmark

Rachel L. Niebler

Jonah S. Sparling

Walter Johnson

Amitoj Nagaich

Sreekrishna Ramireddygari

Nikolay Usanov

Sophia D. Wu

Clarksburg

Jenee Anekwe 

Natasha Oberoi

Zoe A. Tishaev

Northwest

John Bang

Jaden T. Block

Amanda J. Li

Kamila K. Melikova

Rachel Pang

Poolesville

June M. Barash

Tejas Guha

Maria C. Hancu

Pranay B. Kamineny

Sadhana S. Lolla

Gurshaan S. Mann

Alison Y. Wang

Winston Churchill

Samuel Du

Sophia Y. Fang

Navya Gautam

Sasha G. Gerber

Rachel J. Han

Eric S. He

Joseph Y. Huang

Andrew Y. Jin

Elizabeth E. Kronthal

Katharina A. Krstic

Lucas L. Lin

Austin Mao

Arik Shan

Leah R. Stein

Manu Sundaresan

Miranda W. Yu

Cheryl Zhang

Richard Montgomery

Clara P. Bonzi Teixeira

Samantha R. Brown

Jessica L. Chai

Emily Chen

Derek Chu

Alyssa Cong

Ivana Henry

Ayesha Khawaja

Katie L. Kolodner

Eujin K. Lee

Isabelle J. Lee

Jeehye R. Lee

Lydia H. Levy

Jennifer J. Li

Kimberly M. Liu

Neal S. Machado

Angela Y. Mu

Kevin B. Pan

Michael Pan

Meghna Pandey

Eli F. Protas

Helen Qian

Maylis E. Quesnel

Kush V. Savsani

Anagha Shastry

Jonathan V. Simak

Zachary J. Teselko

Joy J. Wang

Sophia S. Wang

Valerie Wang

Jack Z. Yang

Laura J. Yao

Julie J. Yeo

Cathy A. Yung

Jessie Yung

Clare Y. Zhang

Kathryn Zhang

Katherine Zhao

Christine L. Zhou

Rockville

Tomer Atzili

Thomas S. Wootton

Amy H. Chai

Stephanie Geng

Joanne Z. Liu

Zain N. Majumder

Michelle Shen

Joy Shi

Mollika J. Singh

Sherwood

Eve E. Crompton

Montgomery Blair

Daphne Amir

Aarthi J. Arun

Marie Brodsky

Simon L. Chervenak

Caroline L. Danielski

Liam O. DeVoe

Rachel S. Dey

Lintaro P. Donovan

Hemakshi M. Gordy

Jason A. Hsu

Andrew Hu

Evan Z. Hu

Josephine M. James-Le

Hannah J. Kim

Joey D. Kim

Abigail L. Koehler

June P. Lee

Katherine Lei

Adam Levav

Daniel R. Levy

Bryan T. Li

Kelley Li

Amanda S. Liu

Tarun N. Mattikalli

Yael C. Pinsky

Jennifer Ren

Jesse H. Silverberg

Emmy T. Song

Michelle Tang

Carter M. Wilson

Victoria W. Xin

Ambrose Y. Yang

Karen J. Yang

Justin Y. Zhang

Shawn H. Zhao

Ivvone Zhou

Wheaton

Christopher T. Vu

Walt Whitman

Jules R. Bertholet

Nicholas O. Cook

Hannah R. Donner

Rasika P. Dronamraju

Kaleo A. Goldstein-Coloretti

Hunter E. Lee

Samantha M. Leventis

Max W. London

Emily O. Mayo

Devin E. McLenagan

Nathaniel R. Olson

Emma N. Salafsky

Boyang Xiao

Semifinalists from MCPS were selected from among high school juniors who were top scorers on the 2018 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Approximately 16,000 semifinalists across the nation will be considered for advancement to the finalist stage of the competition.

Finalists will be considered for $2,500 National Merit scholarships, plus additional corporate-sponsored and college/university-sponsored scholarships that will be announced later in the school year.

National Merit Scholarship Corp.