Mumbai-born Rohan Sampath has become the ICSE topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks in his Class 12 exams.
Sampath now looks forward to joining Stanford University and unlike many children brought up in Dubai, he really hopes he can return to India someday. “My first reaction was disbelief. I thought it was a typo. I didn’t expect it,” Rohan, a Science student of Dubai Modern High School said.
Rohan scored 100 per cent in mathematics, 100 per cent in physics, 100 per cent in computer science and 98 per cent in English, becoming the highest scorer in the history of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations.
His parents, who have been in Dubai for 18 years, are naturally overjoyed but say they were more elated when he got through both Stanford and Yale universities in the US. “We were not concerned about the marks. He has been topping in school every year with 98 per cent. My elation was higher when he got through Stanford and Yale. Later, when we realised that he had topped ICSE across the world, we were very happy,” said his mother Sandhya Sampath.
Rohan has chosen to attend Stanford University and study either economics or engineering.