Fifteen Montgomery County Public Schools seniors, including three from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, have won full-tuition scholarships from the Posse Foundation for four years.

Catalina Hernandez plans on using the scholarship at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recipient Asha Harvey plans to go to Bucknell University and Jasmin Miller plans on attending Pepperdine University.

According to a press release from MCPS, schools and community organizations nominated 1,662 students for the scholarships. There were only 62 winners and MCPS wrote their students accounted for nearly one quarter of all the winners.

Founded in 1989, the Posse program identifies "public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential" that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes, according to their website.

In 2010, MCPS had 10 Posse Scholarship winners from seven different high schools. This year, MCPS has 15 winners from 10 different high schools. Here’s the full list of this year’s MCPS recipients:

- Opeyemi Awe, Richard Montgomery High School, attending Grinnell College
- Joyce Bartlett, James Hubert Blake High School, attending Grinnell College
- Adam Biru, Montgomery Blair High School, attending Sewanee: The University of the South
- Marshall Botto, Springbrook High School, attending Grinnell College
- Genevieve David, Rockville High School, attending Pepperdine University
- Amy Flores, Rockville High School, attending Grinnell College
- Asha Harvey, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending Bucknell University
- Catalina Hernandez, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending University of Wisconsin-Madison
- April Htut, Walt Whitman High School, attending Bucknell University
- Corinne Konoza, Blake High School, attending Sewanee: The University of the South
- Kenia Lobo, Wheaton High School, attending Bucknell University
- Jasmin Miller, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending Pepperdine University
- Jennifer Schroeder, John F. Kennedy High School, attending Lafayette College
- Ashley Thurmond, Albert Einstein High School, attending Pepperdine University
- Robert Welch, Rockville High School, attending University of Wisconsin-Madison