KOLKOTA :- Nurturing the IIT dream like many Indian students, Mohammad Sahil Akhtar from Kolkata has been preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) since class 10.

He did the rounds from school to coaching class, put in over 10 hours into studying every day, and his efforts paid off — he got the 99th rank in the All-India merit list for the JEE-Advanced 2023. But the 17-year-old has decided to drop out of the JEE admission process, the only one of the top 100 JEE-Advanced rankers to do so this year, to head to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) instead. His reason: more research opportunities and a flexible curriculum.

“Research appeals to me more than a tech job. In India, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was an option. But MIT offers more flexibility. Unlike in the Indian higher education system, I do not have to decide on my final major in the first year itself. There is yet so much that I have not seen,” says Sahil who is looking at pursuing a double major in computer sciences and physics. He is also interested in astronomy, astrophysics and data science.

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