@MYOS1634 14000 students took the SAT from India…you figures are wrong…Check on collegeboard sources, you’ll find that…Approx 14000 indians took the SAT…out of which barely 500-1000 will the OP’s stats…
And that too 14000 in the entire year…man there are 18 centres in India…each houses about 100-120 students…so even if 6 SAT exams are conducted, the number barely reach 14000…Where did you get the 109000 number from?
@MYOS1634 …
- USIEF report http://www.usief.org.in/India-Study-Abroad-Capacity-Report.pdf (page 6) says that 104,000 applied to the US but most of them were graduate students. Are your numbers more recent?
- Regardless of the denominator, "45% has the exact same profile" you say. ... Wow. 2400 in SAT 2, 2380 in SAT 1. That would be in the 99% for SAT 2 and probably SAT 1. So you are saying 45% of the Indians are in this 99% bracket?
Pursuing this line, and considering only SAT 1, and assuming 100,000 UG applicants (from India) writing the SAT, and assuming 99% for 2380, this would imply there are 45,000 Indians who are in the top 1%.
With a number like 1 million SAT exam takers, 0.01 * 10^6 results in 10,000 students in the top 1%
… which implies that 45,000 out of these 10,000 students are from India.
Not challenging you, but obviously some numbers (either mine or yours) are wrong. Would be good to have consistent ones.
no, by “profile” I don’t mean these exact numbers - the top colleges don’t differentiate between 2200 and 2300, between 2300 and 2400 (and non-top colleges don’t distinguish below that). (Note that you don’t add up the SAT Subjects.) Actually I wasn’t speaking in terms of number at all since for the most selective universities, they wouldn’t be the most important factor by far. They’re just used as a confirmation of grade/potential and as a comparison tool. THIS is the message I was trying to convey to OP - his/her focus on standardized test scores is the wrong one wrt US university admissions.
By profile, I mean “Stem-centric, extremely-high scorer”.
The numbers were from a publication but I don’t have it here now, and/or perhaps from IndiaInk at the NYT. You’re right, I didn’t check if the number included grad students though. And since I can’t find the source right now, I assume I copied the number right, but it’s possible it was 10,900 - I don’t think so but it’s possible to imagine it.
However, if you think in terms of “stem-centric, extrememy-high scorer applicant”, I’m sure you see what I mean in terms of similarity of profile. Quibbling about numbers won’t help OP because, really, his/her score profile is excellent but very similar to many, many Indian applicants. OP needs to focus on something and excel at it in order to stand out.
Please don’t bother the numbers from India. No university/college in US has quota for Indian students. Therefore, we are among the whole bunch applying to a college.
^Actually, international students are judged “by region”. There’s no quota, but there has to be a balance between “regions” so that applying from an over-represented region, such as China, India, or South Korea, would make admission more competitive, especially since many students from these countries apply to the same schools instead of spreading out over the country, focus on USNWR or QS rankings, and/or have had intense test preparation. In addition, provisions would be made -especially at need-blind or meet full need schools - for a kid from Dharavi vs. kid who attended Shri Ram since one would have had way more advantages and opportunities than the other, and would thus be judged in relation to these opportunities. Need aware schools could also take that into account reversely.
India is a “region” on its own, because it is so large. “Western Europe” is another region, for example (or, in some cases, the UK/Ireland are together, and non-English speaking Europeans are together.) Balance within the class is essential, especially at al Top 25 universities and LACs.