Sanjeet Sampath (OM 2024) consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence throughout his time at Melbourne Grammar School. Accordingly, the School was proud to name him Academic Head of the School (Dux) last year, an achievement that reflects his outstanding intellectual capacity and dedication to his studies.
Sanjeet’s academic success has been complemented by a focus on care and support for others, as well as the willingness to step up and take advantage of the opportunities presented to him.
In 2024, Sanjeet was Captain of Bromby House, Captain of Debating and Captain of Table Tennis. Alongside his debating and table tennis commitments, in 2023 he was a Kwong Lee Dow Scholar at the University of Melbourne, the inaugural Secretary of the Across Boundaries Committee as well as an avid member of the Second XI cricket team.
With an ATAR of 99.95, including a ‘perfect’ score of 50 in Biology for which he was awarded a Premier’s VCE Award, Sanjeet heads into studying Medicine at Monash University with confidence.
“The reason I want to go into Medicine is because I want a job that is an intersection of all the things that are meaningful to me such as the values of compassion and a desire to contribute something to society which has given so much to me,” Sanjeet explained in 2023. “I also want to be in a job that demands the very best of me every single day of my life.”
In January 2024, Sanjeet spent two weeks in Nepal shadowing doctors in hospital settings. “This gave me a good understanding of what it’s like to be in a hospital, which is a lot harder than I realised earlier. It’s not an easy environment to be in when you know people are in pain or suffering.
“I’m excited to think that one day I will work at a hospital and do something useful, but that’s far away. This year the three things I want to do are play cricket, study and spend time with friends.”
Sanjeet was a recipient of the RWA Alcorn Scholarship. Richard Alcorn included a gift in his Will to provide deserving students with an exceptional Melbourne Grammar education, something unavailable to him.
“I’m really grateful that I got this opportunity,” says Sanjeet. “Even though I’ve never met him, Mr Alcorn did something which I think is a testament to the impact good people have on the lives of others, and this is an inspiration for me. Hopefully I can have that impact on someone else’s life as well someday.”
