VidyaGyan Opens Admissions for the 2017- 18 Academic Session
VidyaGyan Opens Admissions for the 2017- 18 Academic Session
Statewide entrance examination scheduled forSunday, May 14, 2017
May 9 2017, Uttar Pradesh: The Shiv Nadar Foundation today announced May 14, 2017 as the date for the preliminary written examination for the 2017-18 academic session at VidyaGyan Leadership Academy. VidyaGyan is a free residential school for meritorious, underprivileged, rural students of Uttar Pradesh.
VidyaGyan was first set up in Bulandshahr in 2009 and the first batch of its students graduated (Grade XII) from school in 2016. The graduating students performed well in their board exams and secured admission in prestigious institutions for higher education like Delhi University, NIT, JamiaMilia University, Aligarh Muslim University, NIFT etc.A student also went on to study at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA for higher education.
While the class XII results for this year are awaited, six students from the current batch have already secured admission at top Universities and Colleges in the USA. Manvi Chaudhary has secured admission in Wellesley College, currently ranked as the No. 3 national liberal arts college in the US (Best Colleges 2017) with full financial aid of US$75,000 annually for four years. Along with her, five other students have gained admission to some of the finest institutions in the USA including Purdue University, Virginia Tech, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Davis.
The three-stage admission process at VidyaGyan constitutes:
- Preliminary written test in all districts of UP
- Written test for children shortlisted in the preliminary round
- Interaction with the selected students and their families
Eligibility criteria:
- Applicants should be studying inGradeV in a rural school
- Age of girls should be less than or equal to 13 years and age of boys should be less or equal to 12 years
- Students should belong to rural, low-income households (with a combined family income of not more than Rs.1 lakh per annum).
