Eight Pittsford Central School District Class of 2021 graduates won National Merit Scholarships. They were selected from approximately 15,000 finalists and an initial pool of over 1.6 million U.S. students who took the PSAT/NMSQT, a qualifying test, to compete for approximately 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million.

Congratulations to the following 2021 PCSD graduates who earned these awards:

$2,500 National Merit Scholarship Winners

This Scholarship is underwritten by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) with its own funds.

Mendon High School:

• Katherine Huang
• Divya Shah

College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship Winners

Only finalists who plan to attend a college or university that sponsors Merit Scholarship awards can be considered for the college-sponsored award. Winners are chosen by officials of the sponsoring college or university.

Mendon High School:

• Gabrielle B. Golemb
  National Merit Rochester Institute of Technology Scholarship

• Ellen Henry
  National Merit Lehigh University Scholarship

• Vishnu R. Pendri
  National Merit University of Rochester Scholarship

• Alexander P. Pogharian
  National Merit Case Western Reserve University Scholarship

Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship Winners

Companies and businesses finance National Merit Scholarships for finalists who meet specified criteria, including students who are children of a sponsor organization’s employees, live in communities where a sponsor organization has plants or offices, or have college major or career interests a sponsor wishes to encourage.

Sutherland High School:

• Julianna Morales
  National Merit James E. Casey Scholarship

• Eric S. Wang
  National Merit ON Semiconductor Scholarship

Congratulations also to the following 2021 PCSD graduates who were among less than 1% of the nation’s high school seniors to advance to the finalist level:

• Mendon High School: Andrew Y. Wu
  
  
• Sutherland High School: Nathaniel Heinzelman, Rajeshwari (Rhea) Saxena, Eric Y. Wang