Anatolia College Student Success in the 2020 Panhellenic Exams and with Leading Universities Abroad

Despite the difficulties and upheavals of the past school year due to the COVID – 19 pandemics, the results of the Panhellenic Exams confirmed the historic tradition of excellence and high academic performance that characterize Anatolia College students. Anatolia High School students have been admittance to the tertiary educational institutions of Greece, and many of them in top schools. Among these top-performing students were scholarship recipients, underlying the significance of the educational and social mission of our school. 

A total of 119 Anatolian College students entered Greek universities of which 20 placed among the top scorers in the college of their first choice, while 15 scored more than 16,000 points. The students, their ranking, and their related schools are listed below:

• Karapostols Isidoros, 8^th in the School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), 18.975 points
• Kachtsidis Vassilis, 7^th in the School of Medicine, AUTH, 18.866 points
• Kaplanidis Alexandros, 9^th in the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia (UoM), 18.175 points
• Voutsa Aikaterini, 3^rd in the Department of Business Organization and Management (UoM), 18.150 points
• Diakaki Natalia, 4^th in the School of Dentistry, AUTH, 18.050 points
• Sarri Dimitra, 9^th in the School of Architecture, AUTH, 18.050 points (not including the score in the examination in Drawing)
• Miliaras Manolis, 5^th in the Department of Physics, AUTH, 17.975 points
• Saridou Maria, 3^rd in the Department of International and European Studies, UoM, 17.750 points
• Dimitriadis Constantinos, 3^rd in the School of Civil Engineering, AUTH, 17.725 points
• Hiladaki Constantina, 5^th in the School of Architecture, AUTH, 17.600 points (not including the score in the examination in Drawing)
• Coutra Constantina, 7^th in the School of Architecture, AUTH, 17.775 points (not including the score in the examination in Drawing)
• Amanatidou Sofia, 9^th in the Department of Physics, AUTH, 17.900 points
• Ioannidou Eleni, 10^th in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, 16.600 points
• Faki Aggeliki, 4^th in the Department of Physical Education and Sports, AUTH, 16.525 points
• Takopoulou Melpomeni, 8^th in the Department of History and Archeology, AUTH, (a 2019 candidate who succeeded by keeping her grades from last year)

The admission results in top schools for Anatolia College candidates are as follows:

Admission results in prominent universities and colleges in North America and Europe

Additionally, out of the 66 seniors and graduate students of the IB Diploma Program who applied to foreign universities, 59 were admitted to their first-choice universities and colleges, and seven to their second choice, including:

• US and Canada: New York University, Northwestern University, Bentley University, Case Western Reserve University, Pomona in the US, University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia in Canada

• United Kingdom: Cambridge, Imperial College, King's College, Edinburgh

• Europe: TUM in Germany (Munich Polytechnic School of Engineering), Erasmus, Eindhoven, Groningen in Holland.

Four candidates have already been admitted to medical schools in the UK, while three more are awaiting results from medical schools in Italy, Hungary, and the Netherlands.

The students, who were accepted to study in prominent universities and colleges are:

Europe

• Chatziadamidis Eleftherios University of St. Andrews, (G. Britain), Medicine
• Kapetanaki Maria-Eleni, University of British Columbia (Canada), Engineering
• Karavioti Christina, Imperial College London (G. Britain), Medical Biosciences
• Karagiannis Vasileios, University College London (G. Britain), Politics and International Relations
• Kardasi Danai-Christina, Queen Mary University of London (G. Britain), Medicine
• Konstantellou Nicoletta, Queen Mary University of London (G. Britain), English and French Law
• Kostoudi Sofia, University of St Andrews (G. Britain), Medicine
• Lentova Natalia, Imperial College London (G. Britain), Mechanical Engineering
• Papageorgiou Georgios, University of Cambridge (G. Britain), Natural Sciences
• Papamichou Ariadni- Calliope, Case Western Reserve University (USA), Mechanical Engineering
• Paparas Dimitras, Southampton University (G. Britain), Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Pentousi Lida, University College London (G. Britain), Neuroscience
• Petmeza Christina-Anna, Queen Mary University of London (G. Britain), Medicine
• Prekka Dimitra, London School of Economics (G. Britain), Politics and Philosophy
• Sonis Christos, Technische Universität München/ TUM (Germany), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Zafeirakis Antonios, University College London (G. Britain), History, Politics, and Economics

United States of America (IB and Anatolia High School students)

• Antypa Stella, Rutgers University, STEM studies (sports scholarship)
• Axarlis Georgios, Pomona College, International Relations and Political Sciences
• Basakis Petros, Davidson College, International Relations and Biology
• Charisi Maria, Northwestern University (USA), Biomedical Engineering
• Daskopoulou Eleni, Johns Hopkins University, Biology, and Computer Science
• Giannakou Ioanna, Grinnell College, Biology
• Papageorgiou Athina, New York University, Politics and Economics

The successes of these students are even more impressive because most were admitted to top academic institutions in the U.S., in the universities and colleges of their first choice. These students earned scholarships totaling more than $3.6 million and in individual cases $300,000 per student, for four years of study.