For international students, there’s an acceptance rate of 0.3% for a place at an Ivy League university. Securing the tenth offer for our students is a remarkable achievement.
Ivy League application support for students in private education costs around £20,000 per pupil. Students at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form in East London, receive it for free.
Vadin Thadhani will be studying at the Ivy League’s Dartmouth College in the USA. He has earned Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre in London its tenth Ivy League offer in five years.
Vadin joined The NCS with the aspiration to study at one of the most competitive universities in the UK and a dream of doing something inspiring with his love of maths. With 6 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 2 Grade 7s he naturally aspired to study at Oxbridge and took full advantage of our dedicated Oxbridge programme. However, he was also able to benefit from our unique US University Programme which prepared him to achieve a high SAT entrance exam score and submit a stellar application to the Ivy Leagues. Alongside this, Vadin’s continued education at one of the world’s best universities will be funded via a $320,000 scholarship.
“I want to be a mathematician, but not just that. I want to be able to teach maths in underprivileged areas. So I’m looking at Latin America or India, and I want to be able to teach to students that have learning disabilities because that’s where it hits hardest.”
Complementing our successful Oxbridge Preparation Programme, our US Ivy League Preparation Programme has yielded spectacular results. In five years it has helped eight students from East London continue their education journeys at the Ivy League, with a total of ten offers. With such a low acceptance rate for international student applications, this continued success places Newham Collegiate as one of the best sixth forms in London for student progression and support for applying to the Ivy League, Oxbridge and Russell Group universities.
Vadin joins fellow NCS alumni into the Ivy League. In 2020 four Newham Collegiate students – Lennox, Catherine, Xuan and Umar – all received offers to study in America. They followed in the footprints of Isuf Mohammed and our original trailblazing student Tafsia Shikdar who recently graduated from MIT and is now working for Beyond Meat, a company in Los Angeles that creates plant-based eco products and food. Our free Ivy League preparation programme gave them all the information, skills and confidence to put in a successful application to these prestigious universities.
“The calibre of teachers is extremely high here. The NCS looks for excellence and even if you aren’t excellent at whatever you do, you can become excellent here. You really can."
Vadin on his offer
