Oakton High Student Earns National Merit Scholarship

Oakton High senior Gabrielle Tate is one of 41 Fairfax County Public School students to earn the $2,500 National Merit Scholarship.

Winners of the scholarships, with their probable career fields in parentheses, are: 

• Chantelle Tait of Centreville High School (undecided).
• Robert Mason, Jr., of Chantilly High School (computer engineering).
• Aditya Mazmudar of Fairfax High School (medicine).
• Holliday Shuler of Langley High School (anthropology).
• Harold Hild of Madison High School (international relations).
• Elizabeth Culbertson of Marshall High School (physics-research).
• Gabrielle Tate of Oakton High School (electrical engineering).
• Sivasankari Rajamarthandan of Robinson Secondary School (medicine).
• Peter Ahnn of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (chemical engineering). 
• Reece Anderson of TJHSST (engineering).·
• Skyler Anderson of TJHSST (biomedical engineering).
• Sakethnath Are of TJHSST (mathematics-computer science).
• Matthew Baron of TJHSST (engineering).
• Connor Brinton of TJHSST (bioinformatics).
• Meredith Burkle of TJHSST (marine science-environmental engineering).
• Rachel Chuang of TJHSST (medicine).
• Adrienne Doebrich of TJHSST (physical science).
• Emily Harmon of TJHSST (biology).
• Helen Hastings of TJHSST (computer engineering).
• Rabia Idrees of TJHSST (medicine).
• Yon Jang of TJHSST (materials science-engineering).
• Tushar Kamath of TJHSST (biomedical engineering).
• Priya Krishnan of TJHSST (business management).
• Varun Kumar of TJHSST (engineering).
• Cynthia Li of TJHSST (biology).
• Jonathan Lykins of TJHSST (aerospace engineering).
• Omeed Maghzian of TJHSST (international relations).
• Usnish Majumdar of TJHSST (medicine).
• Govind Mattay of TJHSST (bioengineering).
• Daniel Shanker of TJHSST (mechanical engineering).·
• Alisha Sindhwani of TJHSST (computer science).
• Sameer Singh of TJHSST (medicine).
• Suganya Sridharma of TJHSST (medicine).
• Mary Sun of TJHSST (biomedical engineering-medicine).
• Stefan Van Rafelghem of TJHSST (medicine).
• Michael Wattendorf of TJHSST (mathematics-physics).
• Esther Wang of TJHSST (computer science).
• Glenna Yu of TJHSST (science).
• Patrick Yu of TJHSST (biology).
• Yuqing Zhang of TJHSST (computer science). 
• Stacey Zhou of TJHSST (economics).

Each scholarship winner was evaluated on his or her academic record, including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities; an essay describing interests and goals; and a recommendation from a high school official. The number of winners named in a state is in proportion to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors.