Indian teen gets perfect SAT scores, accepted to 7 top US universities

Arunavha Chand, a 19-year-old boy from Kolkata, achieved perfect score in Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). The boy had applied to eight universities in the US and got through seven— Harvard, Columbia, Cornelle, Stanford, Georgia Institute of Technology, Duke and Dartmouth College. He failed to get invitation from MIT because of late submission of his project due to his board exams. Columbia and Duke has offered Arunavha with prestigious scholarships and rest of the universities has offered financial aid as they do not offer scholarship at under graduate level.

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Arunavha is confused between Harvard, Stanford and Columbia. He is busy researching about the universities, Alumni and further opportunities. At Duke, Arunavha is offered with Karsh International Scholarship, the first to an Indian. And Columbia has offered him the prestigious C. Prescott Davis scholarship, offered to best applied science/ engineering student across the world.

 Arunavha got a perfect 2400/2400 in SAT, and scored full 800 in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics Level II. Previously, he has won gold medals at Olympiads and achieved international ranks of 4 and 7 in Cyber Olympiads and has figured among the top 10 in Science and Math Olympiads.