Eight Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) graduates from the class of 2014 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:
Celia Islam of Vienna, Marshall High School (medicine), National Merit George Washington University Scholarship.
Brian Clark of Burke, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (engineering), National Merit Case Western Reserve University Scholarship.
Adam Friedman of Fairfax, TJHSST (environmental science), National Merit Emory University Scholarship.
Nicholas Jones of Round Hill, TJHSST (aerospace engineering), National Merit University of Central Florida Scholarship.
Thomas Lunn of Potomac Falls, TJHSST (international relations), National Merit Bowdoin College Scholarship.
Timothy Ruiter of Centreville, TJHSST (biomedical engineering), National Merit University of Georgia Scholarship.
Vishal Talasani of Alexandria, TJHSST (economics), National Merit University of Chicago Scholarship.
Tony Xiao of Herndon, TJHSST (film production), National Merit Vanderbilt 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 7,600 students have won Merit Scholarship awards in 2014.