Surat: An engineering student from the city, who is studying at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D), cracked the common admission test (CAT) with 99.99 percentile.
Rushi Patel, a final-year B.Tech student of electrical engineering, scored 159.65 marks out of 228. He is hopeful of getting admission to the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad. In case he doesn’t, Patel will take up the job offered by a solar energy company during campus placement recently.
“I will surely try for IIM-A next year,” he said.
Patel studied up to Class VIII at JH Ambani Saraswati Vidyamandir in the city and later shifted to Kota for further studies. After cracking joint entrance examination (JEE), he secured admission in IIT-D.
Hailing from Mehsana, Patel’s father Dilip is also an engineer and works with a corporate firm in Hazira while his mother Sunita is a homemaker.