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08-30-2016, 10:40 PM
MIT accepts student who never finished school
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**t that schoolwork isn't important, but it turns out there are other ways to get into elite colleges like MIT (http://mashable.com/category/mit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).
Take the story of Malvika Raj*Joshi, a 17 year-old from Mumbai who recently received her acceptance letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech**logy. Despite dropping out during Class VII school (the equivalent of seventh grade in the U.S.), Joshi was very active in international computer science competitions, which attracted MIT's **tice.
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It started when Joshi and her family members made the decision to "unschool" her, something they initially found risky, reported the Indian Express (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/unschooled-mumbai-teenager-malvika-joshi-makes-it-to-mit-3003481/). Only one Indian college, the Chennai Mathematical Institute, would take her.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/mit-student-high-school/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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**t that schoolwork isn't important, but it turns out there are other ways to get into elite colleges like MIT (http://mashable.com/category/mit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).
Take the story of Malvika Raj*Joshi, a 17 year-old from Mumbai who recently received her acceptance letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech**logy. Despite dropping out during Class VII school (the equivalent of seventh grade in the U.S.), Joshi was very active in international computer science competitions, which attracted MIT's **tice.
SEE ALSO: MIT scientists created a cell phone that can build itself (http://mashable.com/2016/08/22/mit-self-assembling-phone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
It started when Joshi and her family members made the decision to "unschool" her, something they initially found risky, reported the Indian Express (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/unschooled-mumbai-teenager-malvika-joshi-makes-it-to-mit-3003481/). Only one Indian college, the Chennai Mathematical Institute, would take her.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/mit-student-high-school/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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