Twenty-Two FCPS Students Named Winners of National Merit $2,500 Scholarships

Twenty-two students from ten Fairfax County high schools have been named winners of $2,500 scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Scholarship winners are part of a group of approximately 2,500 National Merit finalists chosen to receive scholarships primarily financed by the NMSC.

Winners of the scholarships, with their probable career fields in parentheses, are:

• Sarah Lim of Centreville High School (law-intellectual property).
• Kevin Choi of Chantilly High School (economics).
• Nitin Rao of Langley High School (law).
• Sivan Tretiak of Langley High School (mathematics).
• Patrick Donnelly of Madison High School (engineering).
• Andrew Prince of Madison High School (public policy).
• Patrick Brinza of Marshall High School (electrical engineering).
• Anna Duval of McLean High School (aerospace engineering).
• Rahul Mani of McLean High School (computer science).
• Calvin Krist of Oakton High School (computer science).
• Daniel Sprague of South Lakes High School (medicine).
• Akshay Balaji of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (medicine).
• Sanjeevani Bhavsar of TJHSST (neuroscience).
• Cecelia Chu of TJHSST (computer science).
• Landon Chu of TJHSST (computer science).
• Rebecca Mays of TJHSST (chemical engineering).
• Raquel Sequeira of TJHSST (molecular biology).
• Jayant Subramanian of TJHSST (applied mathematics).
• Katie Tam of TJHSST (natural science).
• Devon Wood-Thomas of TJHSST (physics).
• Emilia Cabrera of Woodson High School (computer science).
• Daniel Kim of Woodson High School (neurobiology).

Each of the FCPS winners received a scholarship supported by the NMSC’s own funds with the exception of William Zhang, whose scholarship was underwritten by the Norfolk Southern Foundation.

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.

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Note: For more information, contact the FCPS Office of Communication and Community Relations at 571-423-1200.