Eight Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) graduates from the class of 2023 have been named winners of college-sponsored scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

Recipients of college-sponsored scholarships from the NMSC, with their probable career fields in parentheses, are:

• Anurag Kamal Kumar of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (economics), National Merit University of Maryland Scholarship. 
• Vincent Trang of TJHSST (mathematics), National Merit University of Maryland Scholarship. 
• Rishi Sai Sripathi of TJHSST (aerospace engineering), National Merit Purdue University Scholarship.
• Megan Amy Rudo of Centreville High School (robotics), National Merit Purdue University Scholarship.
• Bradley Cao of TJHSST (computer science), National Merit University of Maryland Scholarship. 
• Mulan Pan of TJHSST (environmental policy), National Merit Pomona College Scholarship. 
• Maya Makonnen of TJHSST (computer science), National Merit Northeastern University Scholarship. 
• Subrat Poudel of TJHSST (biology), National Merit Virginia Commonwealth University Scholarship. 

College-sponsored Merit Scholarships provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. Nationwide, approximately 7,140 students have won Merit Scholarship awards in 2023. This is the final group of scholarship recipients for the class of 2023.

National Merit Semifinalists are named each September in a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists for 2023 are students with the highest scores on the 2022 Preliminary SAT-National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT-NMSQT®), which serves as an initial screen of program entrants. The program is administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

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