chance for mit, hyps?

fall2016parent
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:14:45 +0000

If you are a US citizen, they will definitely compare you with the local pool from the US. Even though I keep hearing here that “indian standards are higher than the US”, be assured that the US pool of kids (local) who do get into HYPMS have really gone over and beyond what is in the high school. Most have challenged themselves with as rigorous a curriculum as possible and if they are looking to Math/Science majors, a lot of them have qualified State/National science/math olympiad. Those are NOT easy with the talent pool here. A lot of these kids are 1st /2nd generation asians themselves, so you can understand the background they were raised and some of them honestly are child prodigies. Oh and did I mention, played Varsity sports (which are very tough to get into compared to Indian sports level) and some of them have incredible musical talents as well

You have a great chance but do have some safeties as well. I know some US citizen kids (who were in international schools in India) got admission to Stanford(no aid) (Stanford wants diversity so an international kid with same qualifications may hold an edge to the 50 other CA kids with the same scores/ECs). At the end of the day, with financial aid declining, full pay candidates are definitely at edge in need aware schools like Stanford.