SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA — Twenty-seven San Diego County students have been chosen to receive 2020 college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. The recipients are:

  • Eli J. Pregerson of Carlsbad, Sage Creek High School: Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
    Connor Duncan of Coronado, Francis Parker School: Business Administration, University of Southern California
  • Eliyana Van Ee of Escondido, Calvin Christian School: Physics, University of Alabama
    Gwendolyn Wagner of Escondido, Classical Academy High School: Biology, Texas Tech University
  • Andrew Bender of La Jolla, The Bishop’s School: Surgical Medicine, Tufts University
    Alexander Oleksyn of La Mesa, Grossmont High School: Advertising, Arizona State University
  • Katherine Arnold of Rancho Santa Fe, Canyon Crest Academy: Biotechnology, University of Southern California
  • Esme Abbot of San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy: Engineering, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  • Matthew Ai of San Diego, The Bishop’s School: Engineering, University of Southern California
  • Mohebbi Barjasteh of San Diego, Torrey Pines High School: Pharmacy, Northeastern University
  • Alexa Brunkow of San Diego, River Valley Charter School: Accounting, Florida State University
  • Katherine Chang of San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy: Biomedicine, Tufts University
  • Vlada Demenko of San Diego, Torrey Pines High School: Health Care, University of Southern California
  • Julia Du of San Diego, Del Norte High School: Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
  • Kendra Gregg of San Diego, Mt. Carmel High School: Occupational Therapy, St. Olaf College
  • Sabrina Jiang of San Diego, Westview High School: Public Health, Colby College
  • Daniel Jung of San Diego, Westview High School: Computer Science, Northeastern University
  • Arnav Kanodia of San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy: Finance, University of Southern California
  • Kyle Ke of San Diego, Del Norte High School: Neuroscience, University of Southern California
  • Eli Morris of San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy: Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
  • Jiayi Ruan of San Diego, La Jolla Country Day School: Financial Planning, Claremont McKenna College
  • Junu Song of San Diego, Westview High School: Medicine, University of Southern California
  • Sandy Tran of San Diego, Rancho Bernardo High School: Biology, University of Southern California
  • Jason Tu of San Diego, Scripps Ranch High School: Business, University of Southern California
  • Manasvi Vora of San Diego, Del Norte High School: Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California
  • Catherine Wang of San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy: Undecided, Emory College
  • Daniel Zeng of San Diego, Rancho Bernardo High School: Business Administration, University of Southern California

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced this week more than 3,300 winners of scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Each award will provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

More scholarship winners will be announced next month, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2020 competition to about 4,100.

The 92 private and 75 public colleges and universities span 43 states and the District of Columbia.

This is the third round of scholarship winners announced this year. Corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships were awarded in the spring. When the final scholarship is announced, about 7,600 high school seniors will have received over $30 million