Two county high school seniors have been named U.S. Presidential Scholars, the only public school students in the state to get the honor.
Patrick Cha of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and Emily Yang of Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville were among 141 students in the country to be chosen by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Cha, a tennis standout and co-editor-in-chief of B-CC’s student newspaper, has a 4.0 GPA and was recently named as a Bethesda Magazine Extraordinary Teen.
National Merit scholarships of $2,500 were awarded to 21 other Montgomery County Public Schools students, who will pursue the following college degrees:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Noa X. Gur-Arie, International Law
Jacob S. Rubashkin, Politics
Montgomery Blair High School
Mari-Therese S. Burton, Materials Science
Arjuna M. Subramanian, Mathematics
Sarah L. Wagner, undecided
Jingjing Xu, Applied Mathematics
Catherine S. Xue, Epidemiology
Winston Churchill High School
Marisa R. Lu, Design
Chaitanya Singh, Engineering
Richard Montgomery High School
Myra Y. Deng, Engineering
Catherine C. Wang, Engineering
Richard L. Yarrow, Public Service
Helen L. Yang, Electrical Engineering
Ellen X. Yao, Applied Mathematics
Matthew F. Zipf, Computer Science
Walt Whitman High School
Talia L. Brenner, History
Lauren M. Phillips, Medicine
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Jack Z. Dai, Computer Science
Alex A. Danoff, Engineering
Nipun Kottage, Medicine
Paul M. Neves, Physics
