Not at Maastricht University: Online courses open doors for teenagers

Amol Bhave, a 17-year-old from Jabalpur, India, learnt last week that he had been accepted to MIT after scoring 97 per cent on edX’s circuits and electronics course. He received the good news on March 14 – or “pi day”, as he put it in a Skype conversation with the FT.

Link to the article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5a4b932-924c-11e2-851f-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2PPfwGKgm