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147 Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

September 19, 2022

MCPS has 147 semifinalists in the 2023 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 Corp.

The MCPS semifinalists come from 13 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, Winston Churchill, Col. Zadok Magruder, Northwest, Poolesville, Richard Montgomery, Sherwood, Springbrook, Walter Johnson, Wheaton, Walt Whitman and Thomas S. Wootton.

Semifinalists from MCPS were selected from among high school juniors who were top scorers on the 2021 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. About 15,000 semifinalists across the nation are expected to advance 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.

The MCPS semifinalists are:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Vince Csajbok
Nicholas W. Daum 
Henry Fairbanks 
Samuel G. Lev 
Max B. Posner  

Montgomery Blair High School

Benjamin Broderick-Sokol 
Justin E. Chen 
Travis Y. Chen 
Kaden K. Chien 
Nathan T. Cho 
Elizabeth E. Chu 
Areeb F. Gani 
Annie M. Gao 
Julia A. Gelfond 
Anna X. Gu 
Megan Y. Gu 
Joshua Hsieh
Claire J. Hwang 
Michael C. Ilie 
Melisa J. Kalayoglu 
Srihari K. Kompella 
Elina Y. Lee 
Katalina N. Li 
Sean Li 
Brianna J. Lin
Eileen Luo 
Jonah S. McDonald 
Anushka Poddar 
Autumn T. Qiu 
Anika Rai 
Kevin Rha 
Nathan Z. Shan 
Vijay R. Shanmugam 
Ellen K. Shepherd Johnson
Andrew K. Szabo 
Milan A. Tenn 
Grace M. Thomas 
Solomon N. Ucko 
Charles H. Wajda-Gotwals 
Eric X. Wang 
Joshua Wang 
Jonah M. Witte 
Evan C. Wu 
Kevin J. Wu 
Claire N. Xu 
Jiayie K. Yang 
Kevin Y. Yao 
Tong Tong G. Ye 
Elizabeth R. Yuan 
Kevin G. Zhang 
Maggie Zhang 
Caleb Y. Zhao 
Frederick O. Zheng 

Winston Churchill High School

Joshua R. Cheng 
Anthony T. Chung 
Ilayda Dogan 
Allison O. Fan 
Emily Huang 
Nathan X. Li 
Jason L. Liu 
Tej Mehta 
Roman P. Messali 
Kevin Qi 
Yucheng J. Shao 
Elyssa L. Shenker 
Elton T. Wang 
Nathaniel L. Wu 
Eric Yao 
Maxwell Z. Ye 
Andrew B. Yu 
Todd Y. Zhou  

Walter Johnson High School

Daniel M. Avillo 
Logan L. Devoe 
Silas O. Hultman 
Joseph Kim 
Hana E. Lee 
Eliazar Q. Montemayor 
Emily E. Paranzino 
Jacqueline A. Ragheb 
Ella Tzeng  

Col. Zadok Magruder High School

Julia E. Perkins  

Northwest High School

Mallige Anand  

Poolesville High School

Shubham Bhatnagar 
Sarah L. Cho 
Meredie E. Cohen 
Caleb J. Dastrup 
Brian A. Hoff 
Brandon M. Kim 
Haram Kim 
Sophia A. Liang 
Anya S. Olson 
Anjan S. Sesetty 
Rohin R. Shah 
Saatvik R. Soma 
Miranda L. Wang 
Isabel Wu 
Roc G. Yu 
Andrew Z. Yuan  

Richard Montgomery High School

Madeleine L. Ache 
Shairee N. Arora 
Daniel G. Coxson 
Arun A. Crispino 
Emily T. Duan 
Matthew J. Gu 
Finna Y. Hsu 
Ishaan Jain 
Jake Lee 
Crystal C. Li 
Kelly N. Namara 
Tanya Paul 
Melody Qian 
Saahil M. Rao 
Sevan P. Seltzer 
Evelyn L. Shue 
Brian M. Siegel 
Jessica K. Sun 
Ruth Y. Taddesse 
Gwendolyn J. Taylor 
Christian G. Testa 
Lilian J. Wang 
Paris Z. Ye 
Lindsey Zhang  

Sherwood High School

Allen K. Baxter 
Matan C. Meltzer  

Springbrook High School

Daniel T. Quach  

Wheaton High School

Hudson Tao  

Walt Whitman High School

Kabir M. Broker 
Alexander G. Campbell 
Jake A. Hawks 
Jayden C. Ku 
Max D. Ohm 
Eleanor H. Pugh 
Julia G. Rychlik 
Isabel J. Sachs 
Ethan D. Schenker 
Benjamin J. Waterman 
Justin Yang  

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Grace L. Chen 
Claire Deng 
Ally M. Guo 
Jonathan J. Kwak 
Michael S. Li 
Jackson J. Rankin 
Stacy K. Sun 
Yushin Wang 
Ethan Wong 
Byron Y. Wu  

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