The
National
Merit
Scholarship
Corporation
(NMSC)
named
seven
Prince
William
County
(PWC)
students
as
2022
National
Merit
Scholarship
winners.
These
students
were
chosen
from
a
pool
of
more
than
15,000
semifinalists.
This
year's
National
Merit
Scholarship
Program
began
in
October
2020
when
high
school
juniors
took
the
PSAT/NMSQT,
which
served
as
an
initial
screen
of
program
entrants.
The
highest-scoring
participants
in
each
state,
representing
less
than
one
percent
of
the
nation's
high
school
seniors,
were
named
semifinalists
on
a
state-representational
basis.
Congratulations
to
Aatish
Sethi,
student
at
Battlefield
High
School
and
The
Governor's
School
@
Innovation
Park,
for
winning
the
National
Merit
Truist
Scholarship,
a
corporate-based
National
Merit
Scholarship.
Congratulations
to
the
PWC
students
who
won
$2,500
National
Merit
Scholarships,
funded
by
NMSC.
- Iqra Ahmad, Osbourn Park High School and The Governor's School @ Innovation Park
- Ritika K. Bawa, Patriot High School
- Saahas Gowda, Battlefield High School
- Raj D. Joshi, Battlefield High School and The Governor's School @ Innovation Park
- Melanie J. Rosado, Charles J. Colgan Sr. High School
- Jasjeet Singh Sandhu, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, previously a student at Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle School
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program. The majority of National Merit Scholarships offered each year are underwritten by some 400 independent corporate and college sponsors that support NMSC's efforts to honor the nation's scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education.
