* This release has been edited with the corrected number of National Merit semifinalists.

MCPS has 162 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 14 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, James Hubert Blake, Winston Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Northwest, Poolesville, Richard Montgomery, Rockville, 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 2022 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

Eli H. Buehler  

Lucas Das  

Jeffrey L. Olsen  

Montgomery Blair

Joshua A. Brown  

Michael Z. Chen  

Yuna Chun  

Andy G. Cui  

Jonathan M. Fan  

Uriel Y. Frumkin  

Nathan Z. Gehl  

Solomon M. Gold  

Mandy Y. Guo  

Daniel H. He  

Christopher Q. Jin  

Jerry S. Jing  

Nicholas P. Khil  

Dami Kim  

Jacen T. Li  

Alexander Liu  

Derek P. Mu  

Matthias R. Nigmann  

Elliott C. Paschane  

Joshua O. Piety  

River T. Qiu  

Angela Y. Shen  

Leila S. Simons  

Viveka Sinhaa  

Rihalya Sivakumar  

Matthew M. Slagle  

Erik Sofiaj  

Jerry H. Song  

Sarah A. Stone  

Sudhish M. Swain  

Reed R. Swearingen  

Colby J. Trenor  

Evan Z. Wang  

Michael X. Wang  

Steven Y. Wang  

Isak J. Wilson  

Angela Y. Wu  

Sean Xie  

Andy Ying

Sophia L. Zeng  

Lipeng Zhu  

James Hubert Blake

Conrad N. Blom

Winston Churchill

Raza A. Ahmad  

Angie Chen  

Sabrina Chou  

Pavani Durbhakula  

Elise L. Huang  

Ha-Yeon Jeon  

Bernard L. Jin  

Soham G. Jinsi  

Jonah I. Kerchner  

Jaehee Lee  

Simran N. Mattikalli  

Lara M. Najjar  

Alvia Naqvi  

Kevin C. Peng  

Henry Shan  

Ty Sun  

Auva Vaziri  

Kevin Xue  

Roy K. Yang  

Abigail Zhang  

Allison Zhang  

Clarksburg

Yalini Anbalagan  

Zoe H. Tavares  

Damascus

William S. Lee

Northwest

Dwarakesh Baraneetharan  

Anthony J. Wang  

Poolesville

Vaishnavi Banda  

Lahari Bandaru  

Neel Bhattacharyya  

Nathaniel C. Chen  

Daisy B. Dastrup  

Patrick T. Foley  

Anil T. Ghosh  

Ronan G. Graff  

Leavy Hu  

Soumya P. Jailwala  

Aditya Lahiri  

Amy A. Le

Jasmine Q. Li  

Daniel Mathew  

Elizabeth C. Newton  

Aidan H. Paul  

Nora E. Rudmann  

Andrew W. Sha  

Milo A. Stammers  

Emma Y. Zou  

Richard Montgomery

Advika Agarwal  

Sandral O. Baigal

Maximilian P. Belyantsev  

Marissa C. Boucher  

Zaida M. Bowsher  

Joseph Chen

Daniel Chernyak  

Catherine W. Chong  

Charlyn C. Chu  

Carolyn L. Conner  

Anson Cook  

Samwit Dangol  

Nitya Donthi

Sofia G. Eisenberg  

Joshua W. Fan  

Joy Y. Jiang  

Lucas Kang  

Georgia Levine  

Lin Han

Daria K. Melikova  

Katherine E. Pease  

Oluwatomisin Tiam Fotie  

Hadassah N. Ucko  

Kidus N. Walelign  

Angelina Xu  

Claire J. Xu  

Alexander C. Yeung  

Grace J. Young  

Michelle Yu  

Rockville

Avraham Y. Logan  

Maximilian G. Pankowski

Walter Johnson

Charles J. Brenner

Carol Li

Tariq R. Merchant

Mauricio Sanchez Toral

Nathan H. Tang  

Colin R. Tierney  

Jasmin D. Wu  

Allison Xu  

Daniela K. Znam  

Wheaton

Menelik G. Mekonen  

Walt Whitman

Waleed M. Aslam  

Daniel Berglund  

Diya Bhattacharjee  

Pedro B. De Bolle  

Tomas L. Forney  

Madeline H. Kaltman  

Jacob D. Lerman  

Timothy J. Lindstrom  

Rowan J. Lodato  

Brian K. Mason  

William P. Mayo  

Arjun R. Mohan  

Anthony J. Noya  

Emily S. Owens  

Avery A. Tsao  

Samantha F. Walker  

Harrison J. Walley  

Amy M. Xu  

Thomas S. Wootton

Aylin E. Aarhus  

Shreyas Bachu  

Digonto K. Chatterjee  

Rhea Chelar  

Anthea L. Chu  

Carolyn Fu  

Yusuf A. Hasan  

Samantha M. Lau  

Michael N. Lipari  

Jeffery Z. Liu  

Arjun N. Ram  

Alex Ye