lucknow up boy anurag tiwari who shot to fame for securing a berth in new yorks cornell university despite his humble background is now busy attending zoom calls from politicians who are offering him financial assistance hailing from lakhimpur kheri 18yearold anurag scored 982 in his class 12 exams results of which were announced on july 13on sunday anurag received a video call from congress leader and former mp from dhaurahra in lakhimpur jitin prasada he congratulated me and advised me to return to india and serve my countrymen post my studies in the us anurag saidanurag shared his moment of glory with prasada when i got an offer letter from cornell university my parents were called to my school they were called on the stage in front of everyone present on campus and were told about my admission i had not seen that spark and happiness in my parents eyes before he told the congress leaderi was happy because i could make them smile he told prasada who shared extracts of his conversation on twitter captioning it as words of wisdomearlier on july 16 up bjp chief swatantra dev singh had spoken to anurag he gave blessings for my future and congratulated me for making my parents village and state proud anurag told toi that was anurags first zoom call on his smartphoneanurag is the youngest among four siblings his father kamlapati tiwari is a marginal farmer and mother sangeeta tiwari a homemaker in class vi he qualified the entrance test for admissions to vidyagyan a rural leadership academy located in sitapur which handpicks economically underprivileged meritorious students from rural upwaiting for his online classes at cornell to start from september 1 anurag hopes for better internet connectivity the network in my parasan village is poor i will most probably move to delhi for my first semester where cornell has its study area for indian students he saidanurag started preparing for sat when he was in class xi and scored 1370 marks out of 1600 he opted for mathematics in sat and scored 780 marks out of 800 he then appeared for toefl in which he scored 103 100 being the minimum anurag applied to cornell as an early decision applicant and got the call in december 2019a humanities student anurag scored 100 each in economics and history 99 in political science and 97 in english in class xii examinations his lowest of 95 was in mathematics