LUCKNOW: Scoring 98.2% in CBSE Class XII exams is just another feather in the cap of this son of a marginal farmer from UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri as he already secured a berth in New York’s Cornell University — one of the eight Ivy League Universities in the US — with a 100% scholarship.
Anurag Tiwari now is waiting for his online classes at Cornell to start from September 1. Most US universities are currently holding virtual classes due to the health emergency caused in the country by the Covid-19 pandemic.
To appreciate his feat, one must consider that till four years ago, Anurag’s village didn’t even have electricity. A humanities student, Anurag scored a perfect 100 in economics and history, 99 in political science and 97 in English. He scored lowest in mathematics (95).
Anurag will study economics and mathematics at Cornell. “M