12 Fremont Students Win National Merit Scholarships

FREMONT, CA — Twelve Fremont students have been chosen to receive 2020 college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. The recipients are:

• Helen Chen, Mission San Jose High School: Chemical Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
• Pranav Garg, John F. Kennedy High School: Computer Science, University of Southern California
• Rishi Jain, Mission San Jose High School: Medicine, Northwestern University
• Youan Khan, Irvington High School: Medicine, University of Texas at Dallas
• Rachel Shen, Irvington High School: Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
• Eesha Singh, Basis Independent Silicon Valley: Medicine, University of Southern California
• Stephanie Sun, Basis Independent Silicon Valley: Medicine, University of Southern California
• Andy Tong, Valley Christian High School: Medicine, University of Southern California
• Shray Vaidya, Mission San Jose High School: Economics, Northwestern University
• Cindy Wang, Washington High School: International Relations, University of Chicago
• Angela Xuan, Irvington High School: Medicine, University of Southern California
• Carol Zhou, American High School: Law, University of Southern California

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced on Tuesday the names of over 3,300 winners of scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Each award will provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

More scholarship winners will be announced next month, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2020 competition to about 4,100.

The 92 private and 75 public colleges and universities are spread out over 43 states and the District of Columbia.

This is the third round of scholarship winners announced this year. Corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships were awarded in the spring. When the final scholarship is announced, about 7,600 high school seniors will have received over $30 million.

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