Pooja Chandrashekhar, has been welcomed by all eight IVS, plus six other elite universities, for a unique 14/14 record.  Acceptance to one Ivy League school is considered a big deal in U.S academic circles.

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• Pooja is the second immigrant high-schooler in recent weeks to nail admission to all eight Ivies. Harold Ikeh, a Long Island teenager who was born in Nigeria also scored a 8/8 and admission to five other schools — MIT, NYU, Johns Hopkins University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.
• Name of 8 Ivy Schools:
  • Harvard,
  • Yale
  • Princeton
  • Cornell
  • Dartmouth
  • Columbia,
  • Brown,
  • University of Pennsylvania
• She has been welcomed by other schools too
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
  • Stanford
  • Duke
  • Georgia Tech,
  • The University of Virginia
  • The University of Michigan.
• About Pooja
  • She is 17-year old, the only daughter of two engineers who emigrated from Bangalore.
  • She achieved SAT score of 2390 (out of 2400), a 4.57 grade point average, and acing all 13 of her Advance Placement exams.
  • She founded a national non-profit that encourages middle-school girls to participate in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs;
  • She also built a windmill to explore aspects of renewable energy
  • She also developed a mobile app that analyzes speech patterns and predicts with 96 percent accuracy if a person has Parkinson’s disease.