Frisco ISD : Frisco ISD Class Of 2021 Includes 37 National Merit Scholars

Press release from Frisco Independent School District:

Jul 15, 2021

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named its final 2021 National Merit Scholars. These recently announced winners are recipients of college-sponsored awards. 

With these additional 21 National Merit Scholars, the Class of 2021 included a total of 37 award recipients.

The college-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. Nationwide, there were 4,100 college-sponsored merit scholarship recipients in the 2021 competition underwritten by 160 public and private higher education institutions.

Earlier this spring, NMSC announced winners of corporate-sponsored merit scholarship awards and National Merit $2,500 scholarships. This included 16 Frisco ISD students.

This year’s National Merit Scholarship Program began in October 2019 when more than 1.5 million juniors took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as an initial screen for this honor. 

The highest scoring participants, representing less than one percent of the nation’s high school seniors, were then named Semifinalists. This included more than 60 students in Frisco ISD announced this past fall.

The 17,000 Semifinalists were analyzed by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors who reviewed the student’s scholarship application, which provided information about academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstration of leadership abilities, employment experience and awards received. Of these, 16,000 students were named Finalists. 

It is from these Finalists that the NMSC names approximately 7,500 Merit Scholars who will together receive nearly $30 million in scholarships.

Congratulations to the 37 National Merit Scholars including these college-sponsored winners:

Tate Feeney, Frisco High School - LawNational Merit Boston University ScholarshipNatalie Fischer-Colbrie, Heritage High School - MathematicsNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas ScholarshipLauren Goldschmidt, Heritage High School - ZoologyNational Merit Texas A&M University ScholarshipArihan Gupta, Lone Star High School - BiochemistryNational Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship Caleb M. Hoang, Independence High School - Computer ScienceNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas ScholarshipMaxine E. Huang, Centennial High School - ArchitectureNational Merit Texas A&M University ScholarshipNathan C. Hung, Liberty High School - Aerospace EngineeringNational Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship Ji-Hoon Jang, Reedy High School - Biomedical EngineeringNational Merit Vanderbilt University ScholarshipFouzul Kansul, Centennial High School - Biomedical EngineeringNational Merit Texas A&M University ScholarshipIbrahim Khalilullah, Lebanon Trail High School - MedicineNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas Scholarship Benjamin MacLaren, Lone Star High School - Music CompositionNational Merit University of South Carolina Scholarship Olivia Mei, Lebanon Trail High School - Computer ScienceNational Merit Florida State University Scholarship Zain Mallick, Centennial High School - NeuroscienceNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas ScholarshipTanvi Panda, Memorial High School - Computer ScienceNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas Scholarship Tanya Panda, Memorial High School - PsychologyNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas Scholarship Arjun Penmatsa, Reedy High School - MedicineNational Merit University of Oklahoma ScholarshipJayant Rajagopal, Centennial High School - MedicineNational Merit University of Texas at Dallas ScholarshipJulian A. Sadofsky, Memorial High School - Computer Science National Merit University of Texas at Dallas ScholarshipSumukh Satish, Liberty High School - Finance National Merit Texas A&M University ScholarshipWarren Shen, Liberty High School - Healthcare AdministrationNational Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship Aadarsh Sudanagunta, Independence High School - Aerospace EngineeringNational Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship 

This press release was produced by Frisco Independent School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.