Klang boy proves that big dreams are possible — Yugendran Rajaendran
Yugendran has been in the news portal during recent times for achieving an almost impossible dream. He's been accepted into the prestigious California-based Stanford University's Class of 2024.
He has four older sisters and he's close to all of them. Two are in the medical field, one is studying pharmacy while the other is pursuing architecture. I'm impressed. There are certainly no slackers in this family, I note aloud half-enviously. What's the secret?
"My parents," he replies simply. "They have incredible work ethics."
His father has never taken a day off except for a mere two days in a year to celebrate Deepavali. The 57-year-old, who runs a mechanic shop in Kapar for more than 30 years, is typically at work that day. Yugendran's mother, a housewife, hovers anxiously in the background as we speak.
Yugendran Rajaendran; set to become part of the prestigious California-based Stanford University class of 2024.
Needless to say, the fresh graduate from Epsom college (ECM), pursued his A-levels after obtaining a Tune Libra Scholarship from ECM Libra Foundation. He is finally getting to live his childhood dream by earning himself a spot at one of the top universities in the world. The 20-year old plans to pursue a double degree in Bioengineering and mathematical and computational science.
He applied to 15 different top global universities and got accepted into 10 of those universities, which included the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), New York university (NYU), Columbia University, Yale university, carnegie melon university & king's college London.
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