213 FCPS Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
A record number of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students–213–have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) for 2005. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), which also serves as the Governor’s Regional School for Northern Virginia, has 153 semifinalists, making it the number one school in the nation for total number of semifinalists in 14 of the last 15 years.
The semifinalists are eligible to compete for 8,200 National Merit Scholarship awards worth $33.9 million, to be awarded in spring 2005.
FCPS’ National Merit Semifinalists are:
Annandale High School: Joseph Burke.
Centreville High School: Margaret Bauman, Na Kim, and Katharine Tentoni.Chantilly High School: Travis Robertson and Neil Salmons.
Edison High School: Kristen James. Fairfax High School: Elizabeth DeOrnellas and Sarah Nolan.Falls Church High School: Eric Scannell.
Herndon High School: Natalie Harold, Meghan Ingrisano, Jennifer Kammer, Paul Krumholz, Elizabeth Lang, and Sean Robinette.Lake Braddock Secondary School: Sun-Young Chung, Cheryl Foil, Monica Nutley, Jennifer Wax, and Kyle Willstatt.
Langley High School: Elysha Chang, Lindsay Dupertuis, Emily Hedges, and Anna Scharfen.
Lee High School: John O’Malley and Mallory Taylor.
Madison High School: Rebecca Bellotto and Suzanne Traut.
Marshall High School: Stephen Bradford and Benjamin Groisser.
McLean High School: Patrick Barrett, Laura Bergner, and Philip Collender.
Oakton High School: Jason Goodwin and Benjamin Skerritt.
Robinson Secondary School: Ashley Dunfee, Alice Hahn, Bradford Patterson, Glennis Rayermann, Eric Waddell, and Liang Wu.
South Lakes High School: Jesse Bergg and Jennifer Kennedy.
Stuart High School: William Symington.
TJHSST: Laura Adams, Rashmi Agagwal, Faheem Ahmed, Alice Ainsworth, William Ames, Genevieve Aoki, Matthew Arango, David Bao, Jennifer Basel, Caroline Bauer, Christopher Bengtson, Matthew Berkhahn, Christine Bertoglio, Sarah Blackburn, Bradley Blomstrom, Kyle Branigan, Lucas Brown, Kaelin Browne, Martha Brucato, Sarah Brummett, Ian Buchanan, Elise Bui, Gordon Burgett, John Cackler, Matthew Cancian, Bryan Cannon, Jing Chen, Tina Chen, Jeffrey Chiang, Edward Chien, Samantha Cooper, Alexander Damato, Susan Dekker, Kira DeMartino, Keith Diggs, Jeffrey Dixon, Michael Druker, Jessica Engebretson, Meredith Estren, Jordan Etkin, Kimberly Everett, Michael Feinberg, Matthew Fifer, John Fitzsimmons, Andrew Fleeter, Christopher Gabriel, Kurt Gallagher, Ross Goodwin, Srinivas Gopalan, Sharonmoyee Goswami, Lindsay Graves, Monica Gupta, Douglas Hastings, Kristin Hawkins, Steven Hechtman, Lisa Heller, Stephen Hilber, Rachel Hodges, Anne Holsinger, Mary Huang, Matthew Isakowitz, Jason Ji, Amit Joseph, Youn-Hoa Jung, Dagmara Kalnins, Ashley Kang, George Kannarkat, Madeline Kelly, Ann Kennedy, Lauren Kenworthy, Janet Kim, Larry Kim, Krystle Kline, Curtis Kobelski, Amy Koenig, Joseph Kristol, Nathalie Lagerfeld, Matthew Lashof-Regas, Samuel Lederer, Albert Lee, David Lessard, Austin Lin, Helen Lin, John Livingston, Ga-Hyung Lyu, Alexander MacKay, Tighe Marrone, Eric Martin, Gregory Maslov, Emily McConnelly, Mary McGillvray, Danaan Metge, Thomas Mildorf, Gabrielle Miller, Rachel Miller, Robert Moffatt, Daniel Neitzke, Peden Nichols, Alice Ohlson, Jacob Oppenheim, Jennifer Ouk, Michelle Park, Erica Pehrsson, Corinne Pender, Callie Plafkin, Clare Politano, Shivaani Prakash, Eric Price, David Purger, David Ramsay, Jessamyn Randall, Alanna Ream, Caitlin Rees, Katherine Rehberger, Grace Reilly, Shruthi Rereddy, Andrew Rohrbach, Gillet Rosenblith, Sarah Saperstein, Andrew Scheineson, Kathryn Schleckser, Samuel Schlesinger, Maria Elizabeth Schreiberr, Erin Shannahan, Kathleen Shen, Kyle Smith, Timothy Smith, Timothy Stanonik, Jeremy Stern, Nicholas Stroup, William Sullivan, Ashley Swicegood, Elizabeth Teague, Sruthi Thatchenkery, Matthew Thompson, Stephanie Tritchler, Timothy Tuan, Vivek Virani, Amanda Virtudes, Alex Volkovitsky, Dmitry Volodin, Daniel Wang, Matthew Waring, Shane Warren, James Whong, Jonathan Wiggins, Rachel Williamson, Sarah Wise, Timothy Wismer, Daniel Wright, Di Wu, Lena Yim, and Adrienne Young. Westfield High School: Shilpa Agarwal and Bonny Chang. West Potomac High School: Robert Jones and Andrew Macklin.
West Springfield High School: Andrew Bentley, Jennifer Bishop, and Sarah Milam.
Woodson High School: Katherine Chastain, Robert Colby, Sarah DeCristofaro, Patrick Dorsey, Amy Duong, Katie Hausler, Matthew Horne, and Andrew Lobb. A total of 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists for 2005. More than 1.3 million juniors entered the 2005 National Merit Program by taking the 2003 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2005: National Merit $2,500 Scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.
Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2005.
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