Dubai: A 15-year old Indian origin student, who is currently based in Dubai, has achieved a perfect 2400/2400 score in the coveted Scholastic Aptitude TEST (SAT) exams held on November 7 this year.
A must for admission into undergraduate degree courses in US universities, the SAT score catapulted him to the top 0.5 per cent out of the 1.8 million students who appear all over the world for this College Board exam.
Sanchit Kapoor has represented the UAE at the World Youth Scrabble Championships (WYSC) for the last four years.
He is now considering his chance of being accepted into Stanford University. “I knew I had done well, but never expected this score. It was a surprise,” Gulf News quoted the young student as saying.
“I would love to major in software programming and Computer Science Engineering at Stanford, but I will begin applying next year. This result will help me apply for the early action to the university of my choice,” added Sanchit, who has to clear his grade 12 exams next year.
Topping in exams comes naturally to the teenager, a grade 11 GEMS Modern Academy student in Dubai, who stood first in his school, and throughout the UAE, in his grade 10 board examination earlier this year. He scored 97.8 per cent. He credits his achievement to a number of factors such as “my parents, who are very supportive and the institute at Knowledge Village where I went for coaching, which gave me countless practice tests”.
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