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EIS News
EIS students
head for top universities
Congratulations to
students
from Year 13 at Emirates International
Schools who have just graduated. Many
have been offered provisional places at
top international universities (subject to
results).
Emirates International School-Jumeriah
had 85 students in the graduating class,
representing 29 nationalities, many of
whom have been offered their first choice
universities such as Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Cornell,
Imperial College, London School of
Economics, Kings College, McGill
University, University of Toronto, and
University of California-Berkeley.
Phillip Burgess, High School Principal,
EIS-Jumeirah said, “The Graduating
Class of 2013 is distinguished by many
outstanding students. Over ten students
are predicted to achieve over 40 points
out of a total of 45 in the May 2013 IB
Diploma Programme Examinations.”
David Hicks, High School Principal, EIS-
Meadows said, “Twelve students from the
Meadows campus are expected to attend
universities that are ranked in the top 25
internationally – including the University
of California-Berkeley, University of
Michigan, University of Toronto, University
College London (UCL), University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University
of Austin. Seventeen students in total are
expected to attend universities ranked in
top 50. That represents 30 per cent of the
cohort expected to attend some of the
world’s best universities.”
Amna Al Habtoor, Director of Schools,
said, “On behalf of Khalaf Al Habtoor,
Chairman of the Al Habtoor Group and
Mohammed Al Habtoor, Vice Chairman
and CEO, I wish them the best of luck in
their future endeavours.”
