City students make it to top US varsities for undergraduate studies

The FIIT-JEE initiative has helped a number of students in getting admission to various universities in USA and Canada. 

Arumugam joined USA UnivQuest for a four-year programme during the weekends. Besides academics, he is also an international sailor, a fact which was highlighted in his application.  Like Arumugam, another candidate, Siddharth Sridhar, of FIIT-JEE has made it to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, ranked no 1 in the world according to QS world rankings 2018. 

He had to meet the grade point average and test requirements, important criteria for getting past the first round of filters and proving his academic preparedness. 

Apart from Stanford and MIT, Boston, Chennai students have done well to enter the portals of other top universities in the USA and Canada. Some have been placed at University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas Austin, Purdue, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, University of California Davis, University of California, San Diego and University of Toronto Canada and University of Waterloo, Canada. 

Karan Dayalani, a Class 9 student in Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Chetpet and student at USA UnivQuest has been admitted to Stanford’s pre-collegiate summer institute this summer. 

Ishan Monie, a Class 10 student of Chennai Public School, has been given a choice among three top universities to join their summer programme. He has secured admission to Northwestern University, New York University, University of Texas, Austin and Stanford University. 

To felicitate the 20 students of the Chennai centre who have made it to overseas universities for their Undergraduate studies, USA UnivQuest had organised a celebratory function recently at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir School campus.