HCPSSHCPSS Students Named 2020 National Merit Scholar Winners
May 14th, 2020
Update: July 13, 2020
Thirty-two HCPSS students have been named winners in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program, through the Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarship, the $2500 Scholarship and the College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship awards.
Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners
Approximately 1,000 distinguished high school seniors won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 160 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations. Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
2020 HCPSS Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners:
- Daniel S. Osheroff, Atholton High School
- Jessica Y. Wu, Atholton High School
- Keertik Bacon, Centennial High School
- Jonathan J. Kim, Howard High School
- Samiksha Varadarajan, Howard High School
- Pooja J. Nambiar, Mt. Hebron High School
- Andrew Qian, River Hill High School
National Merit $2500 Scholarships
National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential for success in rigorous college studies. These scholars were selected out of a talent pool of more than 15,000 finalists by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors.
2020 HCPSS National Merit $2500 Scholarship Winners:
- Bill W. Tong, Atholton High School
- Richard Huang, Centennial High School
- Ameya M. Sriram, Centennial High School
- Claire R. Brinster, Glenelg High School
- Samuel D. Levine, Long Reach High School (Honorary Merit Scholarship)
- Abhinav R. Modugula, Long Reach High School
- Zhuoyuan Li, Marriotts Ridge High School
- William R. L. Li, Mt. Hebron High School
- Lorelei N. Loraine, Mt. Hebron High School
- Yashvi P. Shah, Reservoir High School
- Zan Z. Chaudhry, River Hill High School
- Jeffrey Y. Du, River Hill High School
- Nicholas S. Pavlosky, River Hill High School
College-Sponsored Merit Scholarships
Over 4,100 winners of National Merit Scholarships will be financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution.
2020 HCPSS College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners:
- Annabel N. Smoot, Atholton High School
- Rohan A. Uttamsingh, Atholton High School
- Udit Gupta, Centennial High School
- Angela L. Liu, Centennial High School
- Robert K. Appel, Howard High School
- Harrison C. Kim, Howard High School
- Rebecca J. Baker, Marriotts Ridge High School
- Joshua S. Lee, Marriotts Ridge High School
- Aboli S. Dahiwadkar, Mt. Hebron High School
- Andrew Lai, Reservoir High School
- Matthew A. Hernandez, River Hill High School
- Isaac B. Uy, Wilde Lake High School
By the conclusion of this year’s competition, about 7,600 academic champions will have won National Merit Scholarships worth a combined total of more than $30 million.
More than 1.5 million juniors in some 21,000 high schools across the country entered the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
Visit the National Merit Scholarship website for more information.