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Highlights 2021

DAIS IB graduates from the Class of 2021 received a
total of 418 admission offers from 136 universities in 12 countries:

Australia	Canada	France	Hong Kong	India	Italy
Ireland	Netherlands	Singapore	United Arab Emirates	United Kingdom	United States of America

DAIS students are encouraged to match and firm their college application decisions based on their own well-considered personal criteria and the historical data they have access to of past alumni placements. However, when it comes to highlights according to specific global rankings (US News World Report, QS Top University Rankings and THE Rankings), they include:

94 acceptances to universities listed in the
QS "World's Top 30 Universities":

1 student
each at
Stanford University,
Princeton University,
The University of Hong Kong
2 students
each at
Cambridge University,
University of Chicago,
University of Pennsylvania,
Yale University,
Columbia University,
University of Edinburgh,
The University of Michigan,
Nanyang Technological Institute
3 students
each at
Cornell University,
Northwestern University
4 students
at
University of Manchester

5 students
at
University of California at Berkeley
9 students
at
University College London
10 students
at
Imperial College
41 students
at
University of Toronto

12 acceptances to 6 of the universities
listed in the USA’s Ivy League:

1 student
at
Princeton University
2 students
each at
Brown University,
Yale University,
Columbia University,
University of Pennsylvania
3 students
at
Cornell University

130 acceptances to 22 of the universities in the US News Top 30 Best Global Universities which are as follows:

1student
each at
Stanford University,
Princeton University,
University of Melbourne,
University of Sydney
2students
each at
Columbia University,
University of Cambridge,
University of Chicago,
University of Edinburgh,
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,
New York University,
University of Pennsylvania,
Yale University
3 students
each at
Cornell University,
Northwestern University,
University of Washington-Seattle
5 students
at
University of California-Berkeley

7 students
at
Duke University
9 students
at
University College London
10 students
each at
Imperial College,
University of California-San Diego
19 students
at
University of California-Los Angeles
41 students
at
University of Toronto

62 offers offers into 18 of the Times Higher education (THE) rankings for
UK Top 30 universities of which 58 offers came from 17 of the UK Russell Group universities:

1 student
each at
University of Birmingham,
Cardiff University,
University of Leeds,
University of York
2 students
each at
University of Bristol,
The University of Cambridge,
The University of Edinburgh,
University of Exeter,
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Queen Mary College
3 students
each at
Durham University,
University of Nottingham
4 students
each at
University of Bath,
University of Manchester
6 students
at
The University of Warwick
7 students
at
King’s College
9 students
at
University College London
10 students
at
Imperial College

4 acceptances to 3 universities listed in the
QS “Top 15 for Art, Design”:

1 student
each at
The Rhode Island School of Design,
The New School
2 students
at
Pratt Institute

7 offers from universities in Europe and the UAE:

1 student
each at
Bocconi University in Italy,
Erasmus University Rotterdam in Netherlands,
Science Po in Paris,
Technical University (TU) Delft in Netherlands,
The New York University-Abu Dhabi
2 students
for
Medicine at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

7 acceptances have been received from
4 universities applied to in India:

1 student
each at
Flame University,
O. P. Jindal University
2 students
at
Krea University
3 students
at
Ashoka University in Delhi

Various prestigious scholarship packages were received by the Class of 2021 this year. 1 student got the full scholarship to attend New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, another a full ride to Tulane University, 1 student was awarded the Lester B Pearson International Scholarship to the University of Toronto (only 12 such scholarships are awarded world-over), 1 student received the Presidential Scholarship at Boston University, various students got the Outstanding Scholarship & the International Scholar Award at the University of Toronto, 1 student was felicitated with the Egleston Scholar Award at Columbia University, 1 student received the Presidential Scholarship at University of Southern California and another received a 25% tuition waiver at the Harvey Mudd College.