Sixteen Fort Bend ISD students were named recipients of this year’s $2,500 National Merit Scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) today, bringing the district’s total number of 2025 National Merit Scholarship winners to 20 so far.
Winners include:
- Steve Y. Wang, Dulles High School, Probable career field: Biomedical Engineering
- Moksh P. Shah, Austin High School, Probable career field: Quantitative Analysis
- Nabiha Ahmed, Travis High School, Probable career field: Law (Intellectual Property)
- Shaafae A. Chaudhary, Elkins High School, Probable career field: Neuroscience
- Joshua E. Cheng, Dulles High School, Probable career field: Psychiatry
- Krishna P. Chokshi, Austin High School, Probable career field: Biology
- Emilie Efendy, Clements High School, Probable career field: Computer Science
- Dezhou M. Gao, Austin High School, Probable career field: Aerospace Engineering
- Valerie Huang, Elkins High School, Probable career field: Information Systems Management
- Joshua D. Le, Dulles High School, Probable career field: Biomedicine
- Eric J. Li, Elkins High School, Probable career field: Computer Science
- Katherine Y. Liu, Clements High School, Probable career field: Education (College Professor)
- Anshul Mago, Clements High School, Probable career field: Computer Science
- Ananya Pathak, Dulles High School, Probable career field: Medicine
- Sage Y. Wang, Clements High School, Probable career field: Applied Mathematics
- Emma H. Wu, Dulles High School, Probable career field: Computer Science
Today’s announcement marks the second round of winners in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. Four FBISD students were awarded corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarships in April. Additional recipients of college-sponsored Merit Scholarships will be announced on June 4 and July 14.
Today’s winners were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who appraised a substantial amount of information submitted by both the finalists and their high schools including their academic records, scores from PSAT/NMSQT®; participation in school and community activities; essays and recommendations written by high school officials.
The $2500 scholarships are financed by the NMSC.
About the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition
High school juniors entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). This served as the initial screening.
In September 2023, more than 16,000 semifinalists who were identified as the highest scorers were designated from across the nation. They make up less than one percent of all senior high school students in the country.
