Abu Dhabi friends first in their school to be accepted into Stanford University

Abu Dhabi friends first in their school to be accepted into Stanford University

Two school friends in Abu Dhabi made their dream a reality when they were accepted to study at Stanford University.

They spent their last few years at secondary school talking about places at a top-ranked college, and now they are going to the world's No 2.

Solal Afota and Vedant Khanna, 18, who are in their final year at British School Al Khubairat in Abu Dhabi, turned down some of the world’s best campuses, including the University of Cambridge in the UK, for the US.