Getting into one Ivy League school considered is a big deal but an Indian-origin student from Virginia earned admission to all eight ivies, which are considered the most prestigious universities worldwide.
Pooja Chandrashekar got a 4.57 grade-point average, scored a 2390 (out of 2400) on the SAT, and aced all 13 of her Advanced Placement exams, the Washington Post reported.
Virginia-born Pooja Chandrashekar said that she decided to apply to all eight ivies hoping to get into just one of them, because college admissions were really unpredictable. And now she is in a has to choose from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania besides six other including Stanford and MIT.
She has narrowed her list to Harvard, Stanford and Brown as there she can get into a programme that ensures her admission to the university's medical school.
Pooja Chandrashekar also founded a national non-profit organisation that encourages middle-school girls to participate in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs.
She also developed a mobile app that analyses speech patterns and predicts with 96 per cent accuracy if a person has Parkinson's disease.
In an email interview she told Hindustan Times: 'I feel so honored and humbled to be accepted to these colleges and be recognised for my work and efforts over the past four years.'
Pooja Chandrashekar's guidance counsellor, Kerry Hamblin was quoted by The Columbus Dispatch saying: 'She’s taking the hardest courses, the most challenging that we offer, and has exceeded anyone’s expectations in all of them.'
The 17-year-old senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in her website says she loves coding, creative writing, organising and participating in hackathons, traveling and tasting good food.
Pooja Chandrashekar got a 4.57 grade-point average, scored a 2390 (out of 2400) on the SAT, and aced all 13 of her Advanced Placement exams, the Washington Post reported.
Virginia-born Pooja Chandrashekar said that she decided to apply to all eight ivies hoping to get into just one of them, because college admissions were really unpredictable. And now she is in a has to choose from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania besides six other including Stanford and MIT.
She has narrowed her list to Harvard, Stanford and Brown as there she can get into a programme that ensures her admission to the university's medical school.
Pooja Chandrashekar also founded a national non-profit organisation that encourages middle-school girls to participate in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs.
She also developed a mobile app that analyses speech patterns and predicts with 96 per cent accuracy if a person has Parkinson's disease.
In an email interview she told Hindustan Times: 'I feel so honored and humbled to be accepted to these colleges and be recognised for my work and efforts over the past four years.'
Pooja Chandrashekar's guidance counsellor, Kerry Hamblin was quoted by The Columbus Dispatch saying: 'She’s taking the hardest courses, the most challenging that we offer, and has exceeded anyone’s expectations in all of them.'
The 17-year-old senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in her website says she loves coding, creative writing, organising and participating in hackathons, traveling and tasting good food.
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