Thirty-One FCPS Students Win National Merit Scholarships

[Anonymous]

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has named 31 Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students winners of $2,500 National Merit® Scholarships. The students are part of a group of approximately 2,500 National Merit® finalists chosen to receive scholarships primarily financed by the NMSC.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=2773

[Anonymous]

. Charlie Shen of Herndon High School (chemical engineering).
· Anya Michaelsen of Lake Braddock Secondary School (physics).
· Daniel Song of Lake Braddock Secondary School (medicine).
· Andrew Ton of Langley High School (electrical engineering).
· Rachel Wu of Langley High School (economics).
· Francis D’Amico of Madison High School (aerospace engineering).
· Michael Qu of Oakton High School (quantitative analysis).
· Sahana Thirumazhusai of South Lakes High School (international law).
· Matthew Barbano of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (engineering).
· Pooja Chandrashekar of TJHSST (biomedical engineering).
· Corwin de Boor of TJHSST (electrical engineering).
· Joseph Doran of TJHSST (chemical engineering).
· Saroja Erabelli of TJHSST (mathematics).
· Anshula Gandhi of TJHSST (computer science).
· Shreyas Garg of TJHSST (finance).
· Noemi Glaeser of TJHSST (undecided).
· Peter Kim of TJHSST (medical research).
· Lucas Lin of TJHSST (undecided).
· William Long of TJHSST (biomedical engineering).
· Janice Ong of TJHSST (pharmaceutical science).
· Winston Ou of TJHSST (chemical engineering).
· Ranjani Parthasarathy of TJHSST (international relations).
· Sushrutha Reddy of TJHSST (mathematics).
· Matthew Savage of TJHSST (computer science).
· Jessica Wu of TJHSST (biomedical engineering).
· Justin Yum of TJHSST (computer science).
· Kyle Zhou of TJHSST (computer science).
· Georgiana McTigue of Woodson High School (public health).
· Shi Chan Meng of Woodson High School (biological engineering).
· Shi Yuan Meng of Woodson High School (biochemical engineering).
· Jiayin Xie of Woodson High School (computer science).

[Anonymous]

Here's the list of FCPS students who were awarded corporate-sponsored scholarships:

– Kirsta Hackmeier of Langley High School (pathology), National Merit Northrop Grumman Scholarship.

– Ganesh Arvapalli of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (biomedical engineering), National Merit General Dynamics Scholarship.

– Mary Pollin of Thomas Jefferson (mechanical engineering), National Merit Lockheed Martin Academic Scholarship.

– Anusha Saga of Thomas Jefferson (medicine), National Merit CACI Scholarship.

– Sai Uttla of Thomas Jefferson (computer science), National Merit Lockheed Martin Academic Scholarship.

– Renee Wah of Thomas Jefferson (medicine), National Merit CSC Scholarship.

– Steven Wang of Thomas Jefferson (engineering), National Merit Rockwell Collins Scholarship.

– Alexis Williams of Thomas Jefferson (medicine), National Merit the PwC Charitable Foundation Scholarship.

– Christopher Yeung of Thomas Jefferson (computer science), National Merit Raytheon Scholarship.

– Zeming Zheng of Thomas Jefferson (dentistry), National Merit Rockwell Collins Scholarship.

Corporate-sponsored merit scholarship awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and range from $500 to $10,000 per year. Others provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000.

[Anonymous]

The National Merit Scholarship is more prestigious since the corporate sponsored ones are only partially merit based due to those scholarships being limited to the employees of the sponsoring companies.

Selection criteria for National Merit Scholarships:

Each scholarship winner was evaluated on his or her academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay describing interests and goals; and a recommendation from a high school official. The number of winners named in a state is in proportion to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors.

[Anonymous]

incredible list of kids, that's awesome!

[Anonymous]

The National Merit people will make sure a kid gets the highest dollar amount they are eligible for. So, if a student is eligible for both the one-time $2500 award and a higher four year award from a corporation, the student will get the corporate award.

[Anonymous]

Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The National Merit people will make sure a kid gets the highest dollar amount they are eligible for. So, if a student is eligible for both the one-time $2500 award and a higher four year award from a corporation, the student will get the corporate award.

Does that mean all corporate sponsored scholarship winners also qualified for national merit scholarships as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

More like top .3%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

More like top .3%.

Just for this particular test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

More like top .3%.

Just for this particular test.

You may have missed this part about the selection criteria:

"Each scholarship winner was evaluated on his or her academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay describing interests and goals; and a recommendation from a high school official."

[Anonymous]

Only 2 winners from Langley but 4 winners from Woodson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

More like top .3%.

Just for this particular test.

You may have missed this part about the selection criteria:

"Each scholarship winner was evaluated on his or her academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay describing interests and goals; and a recommendation from a high school official."

No, I didn't. All 3 of my kids won so I am familiar with the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these kids the top 1% of the FCPS graduating seniors?

More like top .3%.

Just for this particular test.

You may have missed this part about the selection criteria:

"Each scholarship winner was evaluated on his or her academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay describing interests and goals; and a recommendation from a high school official."

No, I didn't. All 3 of my kids won so I am familiar with the process.

So, the winners were not selected from a particular test.

[Anonymous]

Meng family out of Woodson HS has two kids as NMS winners. Incredible.