The National Merit Scholarship Corporation on Wednesday announced that around 2,500 high school seniors around the country were recipients of $2,500 National Merit Scholarships for 2019. Eleven of those recipients are from East Cobb schools.
Students are chosen for having “the combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The number of winners named in each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the nation’s graduating high school seniors.”
The recipients were chosen by college admissions officers and high school counselors. The winners also indicated their probable career field (in parenthesis) on their applications:
- Campbell: Alexander Eaton, who’s from East Cobb (business administration);
- Lassiter: Dennis G. Goldenberg, with a probable career field in mathematics.
- Walton: William Ellsworth (computer science), Vineet Gangireddy (business administration), Nicholas Hong (neurobiology), Ryan Li (computer science) and Grace Xu (undecided);
- Wheeler: Fianko Buckle (computer science), Caden M. Felton (physics), Arya N. Mevada (intellectual property law) and Keshav K. Shenoy (computer science).
The field began with 15,000 applicants, and more than 7,600 students will receive scholarship money totalling $31 million by the end of the school year.
The NMSC also recently awarded corporate scholarships, which are renewable for up to four years and range from $500 to $10,000, that go to the children of company employees, live in the communities those companies serve or who plan to go into career fields the sponsor wishes to encourage.
The following East Cobb students were awarded those scholarships on April 17:
- Mariah K. Butts, Wheeler (Marsh & McLennan Companies Scholarship), probable career field medicine;
- Eashan Gandotra, Walton (ADP Henry Taub Memorial Scholarship), mathematics;
- Tarunnum Lakdawala, Campbell (PWC Charitable Foundation Scholarship), computer science;
- Zachary Yahn, Wheeler (Georgia-Pacific Foundation Scholarship), electrical engineering.
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