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Twenty-eight Fairfax County Public Schools students have each won a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship, joining approximately 2,500 finalists selected nationwide for the awards in 2025.
The scholarships are financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s own funds. The FCPS winners and their probable career fields are:
- Logan Bradley, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology — computer science
- Eloise Minnigh, Thomas Jefferson — veterinary medicine
- Avni Garg, Thomas Jefferson — applied mathematics
- Samvrit Rao, Thomas Jefferson — orthopedics
- Rohan Kotla, Thomas Jefferson — medicine
- Himagnya Elaprolu, Chantilly High School — finance
- Ray Zhang, Thomas Jefferson — science and research
- Grace Im, Thomas Jefferson — law
- Dhruv Chandna, Thomas Jefferson — computer science
- Chloe Choi, Woodson High School — chemical engineering
- Shubha Udipi, Fairfax High School — computer science
- Joshua Wang, Oakton High School — computer engineering
- Jonah Ascoli, Lake Braddock Secondary School — mathematics
- Sophia Zhang Lin, Thomas Jefferson — computer science
- Amy Key, Langley High School — computer science
- Vishwa Rakasi, Langley — international relations
- John Wu, Langley — computer science
- Sanchali Banerjee, Thomas Jefferson — science and research
- Arnav Bhalla, Thomas Jefferson — medicine
- Jackson Mika, Oakton — finance
- Aravind Siva, Westfield High School — finance
- Sophia Huang, Thomas Jefferson — computer science
- Rachel Noh, McLean High School — medicine
- Phoebe Pan, Thomas Jefferson — biomedical engineering
- Patrick Shi, Thomas Jefferson — bioinformatics
- Jason Hao, Thomas Jefferson — financial quantitative analysis
- Anniyah Rizvi, Langley — politics
- Kyan Yang, Madison High School — neuroscience
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation evaluated candidates using their academic records, the difficulty of their coursework, grades, scores from two standardized tests, school and community leadership, personal essays and recommendations from high school officials.
The number of winners selected in each state is proportional to that state’s share of the country’s graduating high school seniors. The scholarship corporation, rather than the school district, chooses the recipients.