12-Year-Old Who Scored Perfect SAT Score Wants To Remain A `Regular’ Kid. Excerpt:
When Vinodhini (Vino) Vasudevansays she wants to keep away from the media, many people are surprisedHow can the first 12-year-old to score a perfect 1,600 on the SAT want to keep away from the media, many wonder. The test is conducted for gifted children by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Of the 600,000 gifted seventh- and eighth-graders the program has tracked through two decades, Vino is the first to earn perfect scores on both the math and verbal portions of the college-admissions test, said Claudia Burns, program coordinator.
I bold-faced the name because it looks to be non-Brahmin to me. Anyone got a clue? This guyhas the same surname, and he is a Nair from Kerala (a high status Sudra, #2 in the pecking order in Kerala after the Namboothiri Brahmins).
Godless: thread on Indian names here.
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